joshhepworth

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by joshhepworth 14y ago
The app is about exploring new information, drawing the user towards connections he or she doesn't yet understand. We wanted a way to encourage ourselves to explore Wikipedia further than we already do, to satisfy our curiosity or simple de
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by joshhepworth 14y ago
We were thinking about working on a bookmarklet to make the Safari > Wikiweb (or another Wikipedia app that has a url scheme) transition easier.
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by joshhepworth 14y ago
We rolled our own physics to get the layout in the node view to a point that felt right.
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by joshhepworth 15y ago
It's definitely a big redesign of the feature, but it was still possible before. As noted by TC last year, http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/20/facebook-not-now-follow/ , when you request to be someone's friend, you would automatically start f
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Show HN: AudioTruce, a way to share speaker time built in 48 hours at Balt SW(audiotruce.com)
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by joshhepworth 15y ago
There's also a really new one (they just launched their site a week or two ago) in Baltimore. http://thestartupcity.com/
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by joshhepworth 16y ago
Ben does a great job of simplifying a host of issues down to just two, but in the end, he seems to end up blaming the user rather than the system for the problems in notification systems (though he does say that the systems aren't as good a
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by joshhepworth 16y ago
It's hard to say what exactly is happening right now, but I don't think there's much of a reason to expect an industry wide "pop" soon. As mkr-hn said, the companies are certainly more responsible now than a decade ago, and despite the seem
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by joshhepworth 16y ago
This article really speaks to some of the ideas presented by Paul Graham in his essay about the future of startups[1]. Combining ideas from them paints a particularly optimistic picture for the future of the individual. When a student can c
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by joshhepworth 16y ago
It really is amazing how much making sure the little things are right can help. I think it helps develop a slightly more emotional connection for the user as they find themselves subconsciously enjoying various elements that the designer/de
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by joshhepworth 16y ago
I think you're getting at a very interesting conflict here that the author of the article attempted to explain. While user metrics can gauge the success of a web startup, that's often all they can do. Those metrics will (potentially) tell t
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by joshhepworth 16y ago
While I have used this kind of authentication before, I'm not intimately familiar with it. From the way Kincaid described it in the article, it seems the key is unique only to a general moment in time, not each log-in attempt (though it wou
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by joshhepworth 16y ago
The ads really were in a terrible place for the email experience. I almost stopped using it as well until I found a setting in the preferences that just said "Disable Ads" and that was that. Because of that, I assume that they've removed th