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Kickstarter's new team page
- PureSin 14y agopretty cool. A bunch of video tags like below: <video id="video_1" width="770" height="600" poster="https://ksr-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/team_still_1_alt.jpg https://ksr-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/team_still_1_alt.jpg onended="this.play()" loop="loop" tabindex="0"> <source type="video/mp4" src="https://ksr-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/team_vid_1_alt_2.mp4></source> https://ksr-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/team_vid_1_alt_2.mp4>...; <source type="video/webm" src="https://ksr-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/team_vid_1_alt_2.webm></source> https://ksr-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/team_vid_1_alt_2.webm...; You need an HTML5 capable browser to view this video. </video> Really excited for this to be commonplace and flash to disappear.
- zacharycohn 14y agoDidn't work in Firefox, Safari, or Chrome on OSX 10.6.8.
- callum85 14y agoIt works for me in all of those.
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- jon6 14y agohipster.. overload..
- tikiavenger 14y agomy exact thoughts. literally every single person is a hipster.
- swang 14y agoAll I see is just a bunch of people in their 20s/30s...
- TillE 14y agoYoung person who dresses in a non-boring way = hipster, apparently.
- zerostar07 14y agoYou have to give the trend a name so you can refer to it after it becomes boring itself.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoThe trend has been named for at least a decade. Oh, I see what you did there.
- gruseom 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(1940s_subculture) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(1940s_subculture)
- waterlesscloud 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(contemporary_subculture) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(contemporary_subcultur...
- duked 14y agoIt's kind of cool and not slowing down too much my machine and what's best: they did not include sound ! Seriously I hate sound playing in my web browser, specially when it's ads :/
- JakeFratelli 14y agoCool.
- zalzane 14y agoIt looks like their page could still use some work. http://puu.sh/1j15D http://puu.sh/1j15D
- jaredcwhite 14y agoHIPSTER OVERLOAD!!!! (Seriously though, amazing work on the video implementation. I already thought the panorama idea was executed nicely, and then the people started moving. Big kudos here.)
- grinich 14y agoto me, this nicely portrays the difference between sv and ny.
- untog 14y agoIn what way? And is that even a good or a bad difference? I'm pretty sure both areas are filled with well-dressed 20-somethings capable of sitting still for extended periods of time.
- harlanlewis 14y agoFor one thing, San Francisco has a lot more mustaches.
- untog 14y agoYou have clearly not spent enough time in Williamsburg. Or you've spent just the right amount of time. Delete as appropriate.
- joejohnson 14y agoI can't tell if you're being sarcastic or if you genuinely buy the self-aggrandizing hipster bullshit that is so common in both cities.
- wukkuan 14y agoI'm really impressed with how smooth this is. No slowdowns on my 2009 MBP running Firefox 18.0a2 (Aurora).
- niclupien 14y agoGreat job. Everybody looks very happy. How long is the video playing before it loops ?
- untog 14y agoIf you look closely you can see it reverse. So I think it's in an infinite loop.
- kami8845 14y agoYeah, just reversing back and forth is the poor man's version of cinematographs. http://technostreak.com/news/cinematographs-a-new-dimention-on-gif-animation/ http://technostreak.com/news/cinematographs-a-new-dimention-... I feel they could've done this better. Still an impeccable jobs. The best team page I've seen so far.
- Geee 14y agoIn Chrome, right click -> Show Controls.
- jpadilla_ 14y agoThey also have a very impressive Jobs page http://www.kickstarter.com/jobs http://www.kickstarter.com/jobs, the last one in the list labeled "It's fun!" has a couple of cool things when you hover over the links.
- brianwhitman 14y agodear dude in the middle wearing the echo nest t-shirt -- WHO ARE YOU, we'll send you a later edition
- philip_roberts 14y ago(offtopic): I can attest that the current echonest t-shirts are the best startup shirts I've ever seen. Wear mine with some frequency.
- brianwhitman 14y agoyeah, the new john allison ones put the old logo ones to shame, i hate to see the old style still in the wild.
- toomuchtodo 14y agoWho's door do I have to beat down to get one?
- jgv 14y agoif you really wanna get in touch with him hit me up j at okfoc.us
- irollboozers 14y agoI just noticed the dude in the white v-neck thingy -- WHO ARE YOU and what are you doing with your hands?!
- jamoes 14y agoIt crashed my browser :( Firefox 16.0.1 on Ubuntu. My CPU went up to 100%, and stayed there for a minute until I just killed the process.
- MichaelApproved 14y agoSame here. 16.0.1 Windows 7. CPU didn't max out but it was high and the browser was unusable. I managed to close the tab but the CPU was still high and browser was unresponsive. I had to kill the process.
- martyfm 14y agoBSOD'd my machine... Chrome Win 7
- darrenkopp 14y agocrashed my nvidia driver, chrome win 8 (win 7 bootcamp drivers)
- irollboozers 14y agoKickcrasher *Crashstarter?
- te 14y ago+1. Sent my Firefox 16.0.2 browser into hyperspace on Ubuntu. Is there a way to just kill an offending tab? Pages like this take over my old-ish hardware so completely that trying to close a tab in the normal way is impossible. It is a design flaw for Firefox to allow any webpage to have this much power. Maybe a setting that forbids any page from consuming more than X% CPU for t time without explicit permission? Killing the whole FF process is far from ideal. I'd be willing to switch browsers if another better handled this issue?
- armored_mammal 14y agoCrashed my browser, FF 16.0.1, too. Or rather ate 200% cpu and locked browser, which I then had to kill.
- zerostar07 14y agoPretty much makes it impossible to add or remove people from the Team.
- rsobers 14y agoAre you a developer? I find it funny that the first thing you think about is maintainability of the page. :-)
- smackfu 14y agoThe video's chopped in shorter segments so as long as they fire 3-5 people at the same time, they are good.
- aes256 14y agoSucks to be in the segment with the office layabout
- olalonde 14y agoSixth person from the right seems to be talking alone. Maybe the person he is talking to got fired and was edited out of the video? :)
- welcomebrand 14y agoHow do I find out who they all are?
- MichaelApproved 14y agoThey may not want to give names of everyone because it makes poaching employees by headhunters easier.
- rohansingh 14y agoAll the names are provided in text at the bottom of the page.
- MichaelApproved 14y agoAh, thanks. I was building on OP's comment. My browser crashed from the page so I couldn't check on my own.
- mecredis 14y agoThats me with the Rubik's cube -- I also submitted the link to HN, and FWIW I don't consider myself a hipster.
- Jonovono 14y agoI have a slight crush on the lady behind you :p. Also, saw this Rubiks cube collection the other day - maybe you'd enjoy! http://imgur.com/a/mbKKS http://imgur.com/a/mbKKS
- acabal 14y agoFirefox uses 150% CPU and freezes in Ubuntu 12.04, had to kill the process :(
- ddon 14y agoCPU went up 100% :) and internet radio stopped working :))) had to close it. Complete overkill, but very creative overkill! :)
- brown9-2 14y agoCurious at who got to assign which props were held by whom - playing with the giant Nutella jar probably being the most coveted of all assignments.
- callum85 14y agoJust in case anyone missed it – you should be able to pan the image horizontally to see more people. (For some reason, this didn't work for me the first time I loaded the page.)
- tjdetwiler 14y agoI don't know what it was, but my browser didn't like it.
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoNice try but too many errors in the implementation; the asian girl with red shoes gets her elbow deformed by pixel repetition; also the going forwards and then backwards by every video block makes everyone look creepy, also there is a long pause to restart and the beginning/end does not match (this could be more of a Chrome issue). It would have been better to use a "Fade In/Out" effect for lopping or move through the frames based on the absolute position of the mouse (or any other nice effect that doesn't require the videos to loop).
- colmvp 14y agoWhatever. :D It's mostly effective. Most team pages I close after a few seconds. This one actually had me playing around with it for a few minutes and was something I passed around to people I know.
- gojomo 14y agoNew Yorkers: too fidgety to sit still for a picture.
- andyjsong 14y agoSurprised by the lack of Asian and Black males. I thought they would have a more diverse team. edit: totally forgot about the East Indians.
- incision 14y agoI'd be genuinely interested in knowing of which teams do have that kind of diversity. Off the top of my head, the only one that comes to mind is Inkling [1]. 1: https://www.inkling.com/careers/ https://www.inkling.com/careers/
- andyjsong 14y agoGojee also based in NYC is another, but they took down their team page for some reason, mostly Asian and Whites. My buddy's startup up Skim.me is another, but they are mostly Asian with a White CTO. I'm not trying to gather a posse against kickstarer, I just thought their would be more non-whites with the geography and focus in tech.
- avolcano 14y agoTheir jobs page is a blast to play with too: http://www.kickstarter.com/jobs http://www.kickstarter.com/jobs (roll over the links :])
- herbig 14y agoSo I'll see you guys all out at Barcade later then right?
- incision 14y agoA passionate workplace full of young, attractive people. I'm sad to say that I've nearly forgotten such a place could exist.
- olalonde 14y agoTwo things: 1) Cool concept! (would feel more natural with sound). 2) Wow, I've been living in Asia for about two years and didn't realize facial hair was trendy now! Or is that a NY thing only?