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Interviews with Y Combinator partners: Garry Tan

60 points by tylermenezes 14y ago

jhuckestein 14y ago
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- ddt 14y ago
  We're doing our best to put the sad robot out of a job.
  - chimi 14y ago
    While you're at it. When I click on a pin, I want to see what the video is about before I interrupt that great interview. I like the idea of exploring while watching, but I click just to get more information ABOUT the pin. I expected a bubble to popup up with a thumbnail, title, date, etc.
    - ddt 14y ago
      That's a really good idea. I made a thing for it on our community feature request page[1]. Feel free to vote and comment on it. [1]http://support.tapin.tv/forums/167374-general/suggestions/3079216-let-me-see-a-preview-of-a-video-before-i-click-on- http://support.tapin.tv/forums/167374-general/suggestions/30...
- tylermenezes 14y ago
  Amazon Cloudfront has been total crap lately. We'll figure out some way to fix this...
abcd_f 14y ago
I'd be very curious to look at Garry's work. I know two other devs who developed seriously impressive design skills over the years and they both have an inclination toward specific design style - clean and simple, but nuanced. They design as they code, basically, so it'd be nice to have another sample point to validate the conjecture.
- ddt 14y ago
  I don't know if he has a public portfolio, but he designed the Palantir logo[1]. The design functions as both a Palantir, the seeing eye from Lord of the Rings, and as a head looking at a book. All with a circle and a wave. [1]http://i.imgur.com/puTPC.jpg http://i.imgur.com/puTPC.jpg
juanbyrge 14y ago
This site looks like shit on mobile. And it requires flash, do I can't watch it on my IPod touch.
- ddt 14y ago
  We're incorporating a mobile viewing experience on the iOS app. Right now you have to do live video through Flash. We're looking at a transition to WebRTC, but it's not viable as of now.
rdl 14y ago
I kind of hate it when people link to autoplay videos on hackernews. I open a bunch of tabs for interesting stories (and discussions), then go back and read them, and there's always the annoying task of finding the one playing audio when someone links an autoplay video.
- ddt 14y ago
  We built video links with the assumption that they'd be shared to people who knew that they'd be getting linked to a video. We'll include a tag next time we link to a video on TapIn.tv

60 points by tylermenezes 14y ago

jhuckestein 14y ago

The sad robot has notified the admins :(

ddt 14y ago
We're doing our best to put the sad robot out of a job.
- chimi 14y ago
  While you're at it. When I click on a pin, I want to see what the video is about before I interrupt that great interview. I like the idea of exploring while watching, but I click just to get more information ABOUT the pin. I expected a bubble to popup up with a thumbnail, title, date, etc.
  - ddt 14y ago
    That's a really good idea. I made a thing for it on our community feature request page[1]. Feel free to vote and comment on it. [1]http://support.tapin.tv/forums/167374-general/suggestions/3079216-let-me-see-a-preview-of-a-video-before-i-click-on- http://support.tapin.tv/forums/167374-general/suggestions/30...
tylermenezes 14y ago
Amazon Cloudfront has been total crap lately. We'll figure out some way to fix this...

abcd_f 14y ago

I'd be very curious to look at Garry's work. I know two other devs who developed seriously impressive design skills over the years and they both have an inclination toward specific design style - clean and simple, but nuanced. They design as they code, basically, so it'd be nice to have another sample point to validate the conjecture.

ddt 14y ago
I don't know if he has a public portfolio, but he designed the Palantir logo[1]. The design functions as both a Palantir, the seeing eye from Lord of the Rings, and as a head looking at a book. All with a circle and a wave. [1]http://i.imgur.com/puTPC.jpg http://i.imgur.com/puTPC.jpg

juanbyrge 14y ago

This site looks like shit on mobile. And it requires flash, do I can't watch it on my IPod touch.

ddt 14y ago
We're incorporating a mobile viewing experience on the iOS app. Right now you have to do live video through Flash. We're looking at a transition to WebRTC, but it's not viable as of now.

rdl 14y ago

I kind of hate it when people link to autoplay videos on hackernews. I open a bunch of tabs for interesting stories (and discussions), then go back and read them, and there's always the annoying task of finding the one playing audio when someone links an autoplay video.

ddt 14y ago
We built video links with the assumption that they'd be shared to people who knew that they'd be getting linked to a video. We'll include a tag next time we link to a video on TapIn.tv