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Does this idea exist and who wants it? | meep: You think to yourself in the third person? |
Does this idea exist and who wants it? | brandnewlow: It's a great idea.One reason why:Blogs and news services are pulling more and more photos from Flickr. If you can give the photogs on there an easy way to just let people come and get their pictures, without having to track down permission from them, you'd make life easier for the blog editors. |
Does this idea exist and who wants it? | NonEUCitizen: Better if default price is a quarter rather than a dollar. |
Does this idea exist and who wants it? | rokhayakebe: This is a good idea. Last month I was creating a simple website and I needed a stock photo. I went to Flickr and looked for a few minutes because I knew something would be available there. Had I found one I would definitely pay for it. |
Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music | technosmurf: I wish you could browse the available sets and DJs without signing up for an account. To force me to do that is a bit of a pain. I'd rather go back to doing some "real work" than to go through the trouble of signing up so I can explore your new site quickly. |
Does this idea exist and who wants it? | ryanmahoski: For prints, it would be especially nice if customers also got a frame. Without a frame wall art looks cheap. It's no fun buying a beautiful poster and not being able to display it. If someone knows how to economically ship a frame, selling it together with the customer's choice of flickr art would be inter... |
Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN | fallacy: Great start!I've got a few comments:First, as someone pointed out, you should not switch your quiz interface between the first question and the latter questions. I don't see that you gain anything by switching and it is a little confusing. I would stick with the first question layout, because it is simple.Seco... |
Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music | fizx: I want a play button on the home page. Doesn't really matter what, but I want to get something happening without figuring out navigation. |
Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN | tptacek: Every one of these rooms is so much more expensive than my living room that I'm finding it hard to judge. |
Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music | siong1987: I don't know whether this is a usability issue or not. But, I really don't like the extra long input text area:This issue is quite critical on acquiring new users. A good read on designing sign up form.http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/04/web-form-design-p...http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/08/w... |
Does this idea exist and who wants it? | webwright: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/19/imagekind-scores-partne...Sold to Cafe Press recently ($20m I believe). |
Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music | dzohrob: i tried signing up a few times but couldn't make it work. username too short, then the invite code disappeared on the retry page. i tried going back to step 1 and it still wouldn't let me sign up. |
Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN | 0x44: I went to signup, but your application would not permit it. The '+' character is valid in an email address. |
Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music | swombat: Buy track by track?? Why?I listen to whole sets, not single tracks... why have a per-track buy button? |
Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN | webwright: Love it. I'm about to buy a fixer upper and this would be really valuable. Also, it's an excellent market for advertising (lucrative niche).Seems also very valuable for remodeling-- not just furniture. The most commonly remodeled rooms are kitchens and bathrooms.The site is agonizingly slow. You are serv... |
Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN | rokhayakebe: I recommend you use the Polyvore model. Let people pick items from different categories and create their own furnishing style. You are definitely in the right space. |
SEO for web apps | jdowdell: How do you think desirable audience will likely search for your application?(It's hard to get on that first page of result for some incidental bodytext that you may happen to have, particularly if it's loaded dynamically.)A sitemap still seems good, because it lets you explicitly include those terms on which ... |
Does this idea exist and who wants it? | bigbang: Doesnt Flickr already have this?
http://www.flickr.com/do/more/ |
Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN | cmos: I really like it. But I have no interest in your topic of furniture.I also got tired of looking at pictures.. perhaps a little more reward after going through 5 or 10 images?Can you take your engine + make it work with different categories? |
Review my app Twitter Badge | geuis: I have this running on my blog as well, if you'd like to see it in action: http://trending.us |
How-to Implement Machine Learning? | critic: If you are looking for a quick hack, i.e. getting existing code to work on a free platform, then try Octave. Its source-level compatibility with Matlab is fairly good. |
Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music | trapper: I don't get what it does after reading your front page and about page. Why should I sign up? |
Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN | sgrove: Just wanted to post a quick message - very cool! I don't have time to go into details, but the site is very slick, and strangely enough, something I would use.Well done! I'll try to add some more details later. |
Does this idea exist and who wants it? | lux: Good idea. I'd like to see something like this become more integral on Flickr. I've been doing some searching for ideas for album artwork, and I found something on Flickr I'd strongly consider using, but I'll still have to contact and negotiate and it would be nice to have a bit of a framework for doing so, so tha... |
Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music | apsurd: I've always wanted a GUIDE to good electronica, techno, dance etc because I know I like it, I just don't know whats good... so it sounds like your site may help me! Right now I'm listening to some random tracks I've found... so far so good....The UI is nice, one thing that would help, though I'm spoiled, is ho... |
Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music | ggruschow: This is sad.I actually love electronic dance music.But.. I clicked twice, ended up on a page full of from to fill out, and just didn't have the energy to go through with it 'cuz I had no idea what the point was. So as my 4yo (who used all said energy up) would say.. I x'd it. |
Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN | hussong: I usually don't fancy those quizzes (e.g. for music and movie tastes), but yours was actually interesting. Very good pictures, fun to look at, but they took too long to load to keep me involved til the end.Scaling of fonts / liquid layout could be improved, looks a bit funny on FF/Ubuntu. Layout could use mor... |
Does this idea exist and who wants it? | cschneid: I really like the idea, at least the stock rights part of it. The printing part feels over saturated, but the stock photography part feels like it could be done.Email me, I'd like to talk more about this. |
HELP Patent troll cruising my industry. What to do? | micks56: You need a lawyer.You have knowledge of an existing patent and knowledge that you appear to be infringing.Again, you need a lawyer. Get an IP attorney. |
Does this idea exist and who wants it? | bootload: "... Having tinkered with the Flickr API, I don't think this would be hard to engineer. And I think there is an easy revenue model (a cut of sales), a low barrier to entry for users, and a large long tail to make money off of. ..."Why just flickr? Why not all the available images sites? |
Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN | paul7986: Yes nice that you allow use of the site right away which then takes you further into the site.I kept answering like, hate and what not for like 20 rooms, but then got tired.I thought it would stop, analyze the rooms I liked and give me a personality or the app would design my perfect room with perfect furnish... |
HELP Patent troll cruising my industry. What to do? | shimon: First, get a patent lawyer and try to judge how likely you are to be sued. An experienced attorney might be able to see a pattern in their behavior that you don't, and give you a better idea of what your risk is. Note that this risk is not purely a matter of facts -- you might well not be infringing or their ... |
Does this idea exist and who wants it? | espadagroup: It's a great idea, though I think ImageKind covers most of this. |
How do you code a search box like on Ticketstumbler? | pedalpete: What is so special about the ticketstumbler search box?
It doesn't seem to have auto-fill. is that what you are looking for? |
Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN | wensing: Well done. I learned something about myself and I can't wait to share this with others. |
HELP Patent troll cruising my industry. What to do? | vaksel: You won't get trolled when you are small...and when you are a target, you'll be able to afford to pay them off.But if you want to take a proactive approach, you can try contacting them, and asking them to let you license the stuff. It'll probably cost you some money, but probably not as much as you think. |
Does this idea exist and who wants it? | gfodor: It's a bad idea. The reason it's a bad idea is because there is no sustainable competitive advantage and you're putting yourself in a position where Flickr could wake up one day and marginalize your entire business. (At which point it would be a race to the bottom margin-wise, until you go under and they have a... |
Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music | daveambrose: Looks like great progress since TC50 Akshay! Going to take the app for a spin in more detail tomorrow. I'll send feedback. |
Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN | paraschopra: Actually, I liked all the rooms. Put in some of the messy ones as well. It is hard not to like a perfect room like the ones you have in the pictures. |
How do you code a search box like on Ticketstumbler? | fallentimes: Or you can email us :).founders [o.o] ticketstumbler (-.-)--O(+.-) com |
Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music | mattmcknight: I was only able to get two of the sets to play. Every other one sits at 0:00 with the play button clicked. Added it to my Flashblock whitelist, but the flash bar was way below the player, which was weird. The player should be able to pop out or iframe or something so that you can browse while listening. H... |
Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN | sam_in_nyc: Don't pay too much attention to: * Windows, floors, wall material, and other architectural features
* Color — it's easy to change color combinations
* Layout and arrangement — also easy to change
That's a monumental challenge for me. I vote basically based on what my first impression is, and ... |
Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN | rscott: I really liked it. Maybe at the end provide some links to stores specializing in certain styles? |
How do you code a search box like on Ticketstumbler? | vaksel: alright I got it working, thanks everyone for the help |
Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music | jawngee: - Let me queue up dj sets.
- Give me a desktop player so I can listen without keeping firefox open.
- Not clear why I have to create an account since I can't do anything with it other than leave commentsHave you checked out soundcloud? |
Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music | jyu: Why do you slap me in the face with a full page sign up form, without giving me any clear benefits to signing up? |
Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN | sachinag: I like the business - help people figure out what to buy, then make commissions on $1,000 furniture. Brilliant. And I like the approach a lot. So you're in the top quartile, for me, of Ask HN stuff here. Praise aside, let's get to the helpful specific crits:You really need to Photoshop the pictures in you... |
Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN | sh1mmer: My wife points out that it would be interesting to do something for couples because she likes radically different stuff to me. So something that could marry (boom boom) our styles would be helpful. |
Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN | joshsharp: I did the quiz but stopped short at entering my details. Then I came back and read all the comments here and decided I did want to create an account after all.Kudos for using cookies and keeping my quiz results; I would've been very irritated if I had to do it again just because I didn't sign up at the same ... |
Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN | rms: I like it. To me it seems more obvious to do this for clothes rather than interior decorating. Are you planning on applying this to fashion? |
HELP Patent troll cruising my industry. What to do? | opticksversi: http://www.gardenweasel.com/News/AUGUST2006Newsletter.pdf [PDF]In [Dean, of Segway fame] Kamen's opening statement he noted that some people might call him a "Patent Troll" since he now limits his activities to developing product ideas with the sole purpose of licensing them, but doesn't try to manufactur... |
Remedies for RSI? | aj: While not a cure, you should try using a RSI recovery help software which essentially forces you to take breaks and also tells you of exercises you should do.Check out Workrave ( www.workrave.com ) which I personally use and have found quite useful.Disclaimer: I am not affiliated to workrave in any form except as a... |
Remedies for RSI? | gruseom: Two things I don't see on your list:1. I do finger, wrist, and forearm stretches regularly. For me, they prevent RSI and even get rid of it when it's starting. I don't know if this would help for chronic pain.2. Chronic conditions can sometimes be alleviated by hypnosis. Here the challenge is finding a skilled... |
How do you create a "limited fixed div"? | qhoxie: I did this in jQuery at one time. Hopefully this is helpful. $(window).scroll(function() {
var offsetTop = $(window).scrollTop();
$("#target").css({top: offsetTop});
});
To explain, whenever the viewport is scrolled, the offset of the viewport to the top of the page is set (offsetTop). Then the #t... |
How do you create a "limited fixed div"? | calvin: If you use Prototype, you'll want to look at the API docs for document.viewport and getHeight-- http://www.prototypejs.org/api/document/viewport-- http://www.prototypejs.org/api/element/getheight |
Remedies for RSI? | SwellJoe: When I started having problems about 7 year ago, I did a handful of things, but the two that made the most difference were:Better chair (Aeron). Sounds odd, I guess, but being the right height and having good posture makes a difference. I also dropped the arms way down, so I simply cannot lean on them no ma... |
Remedies for RSI? | sutro: I used to have very bad RSI, and two things saved me: 1) this book: http://www.amazon.com/Repetitive-Strain-Injury-Computer-User..., and 2) this doctor: http://www.yelp.com/biz/mehaffy-rick-dc-redwood-city (only helpful if you live in the Bay Area). Good luck. |
How do you code a search box like on Ticketstumbler? | aaronbrethorst: Firebug much? (http://getfirebug.com) |
Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music | tlrobinson: I love it! I like listening to live sets, but I'm always annoyed when I want to know what a certain track in the middle of a set is. If you're lucky you can find a breakdown of the set list, but this is way better than even that.[me goes to unsubscribe from electronic music podcasts in iTunes]Now, just make... |
Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music | cmos: I wish you the best of luck. My momentum ran out with the signup form. And I like electronic music.But regardless, congratulations! You got something up and running, and the custom link greeting page was a very nice touch. Please give us updates + progress reports. |
Remedies for RSI? | trapper: Off the top of my head things you could try:1. Go to a paul chek, nasm or shirley sharman practitioner. They will check out your posture. Ignore anything they say about the one true way [edit - I mean the research is inconclusive - either may work, but all will claim their way is correct].2. If you already hav... |
HELP Patent troll cruising my industry. What to do? | codesink: Moving your technology to a brand-new european company (no software patents yet) and licensing to your US company could avoid being sued by patent trolls? I don't know anything about such topics, just asking. |
Does this idea exist and who wants it? | SingAlong: So if you are going to make profit out of a site built on top of the Flickr API, then you'll have to use the commercial API. So the factors to consider would include the cost of the commercial API too. Besides, you'll also have to use some merchant account/Paypl to process payments which again eats off a bit... |
Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN | fauigerzigerk: I like it a lot. Will show it to my gf as well. The style of the website is very nice and clean. I love the sproost logo! I have a few criticisms though.The quiz is very long and it seemed to my european eyes that there's an overhang of traditional styles and little differentiation among contemporary opt... |
HELP Patent troll cruising my industry. What to do? | ig1: Get IP Insurance. |
Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN | gsmaverick: I definitely bookmarked this site. This is the best webapp I have seen on HN in months! |
Remedies for RSI? | chris_l: Alexander Technique worked for me. But it is not miracle cure, you have to work on yourself to make it work. A one line takeaway is that you're probably doing something too hard as a matter of habit when typing. |
How-to Implement Machine Learning? | rm999: Scipy - it can be used like matlab, but it's python.At the very least, make sure your solution can easily and efficiently work with linear algebra, a plotting tool, and some basic statistics functions. |
How do you create a "limited fixed div"? | jreposa: Here's a smooth scrolling div within boundaries based on a timeout. var attrs = {};
$(document).ready(function(){
attrs.startY = $("#target").offset().top;
// pad the bottom by 20 pixels including the 20 pixels from top added in fixed()
attrs.endY = $('#bottom').offset().top - $("#target").heig... |
How do you create a "limited fixed div"? | zacharydanger: I'd recommend posting this question over at stackoverflow.com, too. |
Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music | Dilpil: Every single set listed is eurotrance. Many even play the same tracks. Furthermore, they are all from established DJs. When does the 'upload set' feature make it in, and truly democratize techno music? |
What Criteria Should a Young Hacker Apply to College Choice? | stcredzero: Don't choose a college. Choosing a college means you are choosing a particular brand of credentials.http://www.paulgraham.com/credentials.htmlInstead, the best thing to base your choice on is people. The next best thing is environment. Are there particular professors who you look up to who would want to ... |
What Criteria Should a Young Hacker Apply to College Choice? | utnick: its probably really hard for any of us to give good advice because there are so many personal factors and each of us has only attended one or maybe 2 colleges so we are all biased.you should just make a list of pros/cons and trust your instincts |
What programming language should I teach my little brother? | dimm: Python is easy to learn.
Some advice by ESR : http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#skills1 |
What Criteria Should a Young Hacker Apply to College Choice? | walterk: Here's a list, but don't take the order too seriously:- Courses: Do they have courses that you're interested in taking, and is the department strong in those areas? What's the balance between theoretical and more immediately practical classes, and which do you care more about?- Professors: How are the professo... |
What tools do you use for testing your web apps. | utnick: Someone at our last ruby meetup demo'd a project he was working on called watirloo http://github.com/marekj/watirloo/tree/masterIt looks really coolAlso just plain watir is a good tool for setting up some unit tests |
Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN | mhashim: great job guys. I like the minimalist and clean design approach. I took the quiz and got my wife to do it too as we have just redecorated, and the answers were quite accurate about our style inclinations. Good to see a quality start. I think the tough part now is to integrate this with multiple channels that c... |
What programming language should I teach my little brother? | lv_: ruby! he will be a rockstar by 16 and we will all thank you |
What Criteria Should a Young Hacker Apply to College Choice? | cmos: None of it really matters. Visit each college until it's just obvious. "I could spend 4 years here and be happy" Stay overnight with a freshman. Get a feel for how things are run. Talk to as many freshman and seniors as possible, candidly, in private. Go to some sample classes.Don't just take a tour or inve... |
What Criteria Should a Young Hacker Apply to College Choice? | alex_c: I think there are two main benefits that you get from a college education.The first is your personal growth: what you learn from your courses, what you learn about yourself, what you learn from your classmates. The personal relationships you make with faculty and with other students that last past your graduat... |
What programming language should I teach my little brother? | cmos: Call me old school, but I would start off with Basic. If he was younger I would recommend Logo. Once he's hooked I would get him into C or pascal.I can't recommend enough getting him a "Basic Stamp" kit. Seeing how software can control hardware is magical. Then work him up into "Arduino" world in C. |
What Criteria Should a Young Hacker Apply to College Choice? | maximilian: I would say you should go to the hardest college you get in to (that you generally like). The more smart people there, the better because the classes will be more challenging and likely more stimulating. I went to a hard school, and going from being the smartest to suddenly being average was a stimulating... |
What programming language should I teach my little brother? | charlesju: Ruby.It's the most human-readable language out there. I personally think that it's a lot easier to get started with the basic concepts of programming like while loops, if statements, etc. It is a lot easier to do those things when you don't have to think about including random libraries and putting everythin... |
What programming language should I teach my little brother? | anotherjesse: I would recommend Python or if the Unix/Linux component isn't as important, JavaScript.JavaScript would allow your brother to share his creations with friends and learning the amazing (and at times frustrating world) world of the web. |
What programming language should I teach my little brother? | time_management: Don't teach him one programming language, because if he wants to be a hacker, he'll need exposure to many.Ruby or Python is good for a start, because it's easy to debug and you can do simple, cool things with them pretty quickly. Then introduce him to Lisp or Scheme, and finally OCaml or Haskell so he'... |
Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music | truebosko: I can't seem to type anything on this page: http://mugasha.com/browse/setsThe input box has a highlight but when I click on it, I can't type anything at all. |
What programming language should I teach my little brother? | maxwell: AppJet now, C later. |
What programming language should I teach my little brother? | fuzzmeister: As a teenager, I tried various "real" coding languages - C++, Java, VB (ugh) - but I was never able to get engaged in them. All I wanted to do was build something cool quickly, and none of these languages allowed that without a significant time investment. Then, I tried out PHP. Within a few days, I was bu... |
What programming language should I teach my little brother? | noblethrasher: Since you know OCaml how about teaching him Haskell followed by C? The former should be pretty accessible to a 13 year old and he’ll have a lot of time to wrestle with some of the more difficult concepts like Monads (although I think exposure to them at an early age will make them easier to grok since he... |
What programming language should I teach my little brother? | Eliezer: I realize I'm sounding here like I've been seduced, but I truly don't understand why you would want to teach any first language other than Python. |
What programming language should I teach my little brother? | pavelludiq: python or ruby are good choices. They can be used to do UNIX scripting, and each one has some really cool modules to do graphic stuff. I'm learning ruby just now, so that i can do GUI programming with shoes, and im using _why's guide: http://poignantguide.net/ruby/index.htmlI don't know which one is better ... |
What programming language should I teach my little brother? | chriseidhof: Whatever language you choose: write a lot of (small?) shell scripts. This is very unix-y and also easy. The composing of those scripts using unix-pipes also will give him a little bit experience with things like modularity.Also, I'd choose a language I like and that I'm familiar with. I think OCaml would d... |
What Criteria Should a Young Hacker Apply to College Choice? | bokonist: 1) Go to the best school where you can get a full ride. Convince your parents to use the money they saved to fund your startup some day. It's a far better use of money than college tuition.2) Either major in a hard, useful, technical subject, like mechanical engineering or computer science, or find a supe... |
What programming language should I teach my little brother? | bprater: I've given this question lots of thought over the years. I really started loving programming when I found Garry Kitchen's GameMaker. It wasn't very elegant, but it was damn fun.I'd push him toward PHP.The goal isn't to make him a great programmer with an amazing language. The goal is to get him doing fun stuff... |
What programming language should I teach my little brother? | vorador: I would suggest a language like newlisp (http://newlisp.org), that has enough libraries to do unix scripting.
Also, you should consider teaching him awk because it has simple semantics and it will be simpler for him to switch to C later.Btw, why do you hate C ? |
What programming language should I teach my little brother? | swapspace: Python and probably a lot of shell scripting. I like zsh a lot. |
What programming language should I teach my little brother? | iamdave: Ruby.Give the Why's Poignant Guide and you can't go wrong. Plus he'll love the cartoons, even if he doesn't get the strangely subtle adult humor. |
What programming language should I teach my little brother? | DavidSJ: Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu/) is a good way to learn the basics of putting programs together. It's done visually and it may feel like just a toy, but you can do some pretty cool things, it has a very shallow learning curve, and it can intuitively guide you to learning some important concepts which then ha... |
What programming language should I teach my little brother? | smanek: Logo isn't too bad. It's open source, scheme derived, and very easy to make games (beginners like immediate feedback). http://education.mit.edu/starlogo/At 13, he may be too old for it, but Logo was one of my first languages back in elementary school, and I remember being very excited that I could write my own ... |
What programming language should I teach my little brother? | rw: I recommend NetLogo. It is simple to learn, LISP-inspired, and makes it trivially easy to do all sorts of graphical work. It runs on the JVM.(I took a class in which we used NetLogo to run agent-based economics simulations. Lots of fun, although the LISPer in you will start to hate it after a while.) |
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