jonathanberger

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   Why We Don't Need Phone Numbers Anymore(baligu.blogspot.com)

   4 points by jonathanberger 15y ago|1 comments
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   by jonathanberger 15y ago

   It's interesting to see pg's opinion about what is important in founders evolve over the years. When I applied to YC in late 2008, I was told by alumni that YC was "looking for smart people." Although he's talked about discipline and determ
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   Syllables, Scrabble Letters, and Picking Brand Names(hopperanddropper.com)

   5 points by jonathanberger 16y ago|0 comments
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   by jonathanberger 16y ago

   In your local timezone: http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/?t=7:00pm&tz=PST%20(...
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   by jonathanberger 16y ago

   On the fastest hardware, you could keep Default.png displayed just a split second longer to avoid the "blink too quickly" problem. Yes, it's bad because it further delays the launch of the app but if the hardware is so fast that the short b
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   by jonathanberger 16y ago

   Has anyone come across any opensource/community attempts to build a set of financial site scrapers? It seems like an area where such an approach might flourish.
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   by jonathanberger 16y ago

   Time in your local timezone: http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/?t=8:30pm&tz=Pacific...
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   by jonathanberger 17y ago

   Hm, interesting requests. I had other similar requests via e-mail for auto-colon-insertion so might prioritize this.
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   by jonathanberger 17y ago

   The mention of the specific use case is helpful. I assume you'd want as output not only the time, but also the corresponding date. I want to think carefully about how to add dates because I'm trying to keep it simple and quick.
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    by jonathanberger 17y ago

    Haha - I wouldn't complain... I've got a few ideas around SEO and a few more popped up here, so I'll see what I can do to make the site easy to find with Google again later on.
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    by jonathanberger 17y ago

    Ah, another input method I hadn't thought of. Thanks, will consider.
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    by jonathanberger 17y ago

    Interesting ideas - I was trying to think about creative but still useful SEO techniques... something Yelp-like. This might be it.
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    by jonathanberger 17y ago

    I don't agree with the downvote - thanks for the bug report. I saw this a while back and was having trouble reproducing so this is helpful. I'll look into it.
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    by jonathanberger 17y ago

    Started to skim it... fascinating. Very cool.
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    by jonathanberger 17y ago

    Second time this was mentioned so I'll definitely give it some thought.
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    by jonathanberger 17y ago

    Not a bad idea. It would be handy to have it a keypress away but the benefits from my point of view (the developer's) are almost too great in keeping it a webpage: easier to update, ability to add ads, wider audience, etc.
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    by jonathanberger 17y ago

    Thanks - I need an "accept all" button for these suggestions. On the multiple equivalents though, that was intentional to handle multiple ways people might want to type it in. Perhaps it's confusingly redundant.
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    by jonathanberger 17y ago

    Third request here for different 24h behavior. I remember hearing the advice "listen to your users" somewhere... so I'll prioritize that. Thanks.
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    by jonathanberger 17y ago

    Thanks for giving it a close look. I debated these points and came up with arguments on both sides of how updating should work. I agree more with your tab ordering point. As far as JS execution (deciding which time to update when city chang
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    by jonathanberger 17y ago

    Thanks. As a shortcut I left out countries with multiple timezones, but as you say they should be in there still just multiple times and delineated somehow. Nothing gets by the HN crowd. :)
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    by jonathanberger 17y ago

    GMTA - already using it with a few tweaks.
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    by jonathanberger 17y ago

    I used GeoNames to make sure all countries are in there. Cities, I sorted by population and took the top 1000. Looking more closely now... Zurich at least should have made the cutoff. I'll take a look. Thanks.
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    by jonathanberger 17y ago

    Great ideas. I've been collecting electronic feedback like this from friends, but agreed that some "over the shoulder" user testing could help. Hearing these "x was not obvious" from you is helpful as I'm too deep in it now for any of these
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    by jonathanberger 17y ago

    I like (a). I've been trying to avoid a toggle to keep things simple but noticing input behavior and switching automatically + storing in a cookie would work. I need to update the blog screenshot, but (b) is incorporated almost exactly as y
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    by jonathanberger 17y ago

    Hah - true. :) Stack Overflow would have taken me longer.
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    by jonathanberger 17y ago

    Thanks, appreciate the compliment and ideas. I do remembering coming across that other site too. I've been looking for a fun graphic or animation to jazz up the UI (I believe in making products "fun") so maybe the analog clock idea is it.
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    by jonathanberger 17y ago

    I do examine the browser's accept-language preferences and attempt to correctly do locale appropriate time formats. I've considered a toggle but am trying to keep the UI really simple. Are you from outside the US, and if so could you tell m
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    by jonathanberger 17y ago

    Thanks for the suggestion. It's true omitting dates can affect some conversions. I left them out for speed/simplicity but might have be the wrong tradeoff.
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    by jonathanberger 17y ago

    It does. For example, right now Australian times properly incorporate DST. The domain name was optimized for Google queries where it's important to have exact search terms in the name itself. Agreed that it's annoyingly long but I expect pe
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    by jonathanberger 17y ago

    Thanks in advance for any feedback on the site.