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by kingsley_20 17y ago
In my vast ignorance, I've always wondered why buoyancy isn't a popular principle of personal air transportation, when it seems to work really well for water.
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by kingsley_20 17y ago
//designer !(!=) hacker;
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by kingsley_20 17y ago
Interesting quote: "Fair enough: All people are experts on their own preferences". I have mostly found this to not be the case. Most people have preferences, but mostly don't know why. People are, however, entitled to their own preferences.
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by kingsley_20 17y ago
Phase 1: Use that CSS/ visited-link based hack, and geolocation to show people something. Tell me that there are : 20 people using Hacker News, 2 using salesforce, 5 gazillion using FARK etc Phase 2: people sign up Phase 3: Profit!
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by kingsley_20 17y ago
Different,yes, but not necessarily in a way that matters to me.
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by kingsley_20 17y ago
My search for "freedom fighters" turned up Indians exclusively. I wasn't signed in. Strange. Are they not called "freedom fighters" in other cultures? It is a semantically dubious phrase. http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=freedom+fi
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by kingsley_20 17y ago
Without attached debugging tools (at least for DOM/CSS, if not Javascript), kinda elaborately pointless.
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by kingsley_20 17y ago
Yet another Indian invention, ascribed to the middle east through medieval ignorance. The wootz steel is the key. See: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/647868/wootz-steel
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by kingsley_20 17y ago
In that vein, show some product. What does "collaborative shopping" look like on a screen? Bonus points if you show non-clipart people using your product in a way that makes sense to your users. Would they also be on a phone call w/ each ot
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by kingsley_20 17y ago
free for <s>people</s> Americans who make less than
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by kingsley_20 17y ago
apparently, you can aggregate lat-long into a geohash http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash . seems like a good idea, although i havent actually tried it.
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by kingsley_20 17y ago
i remember seeing a recent HN post about the correlation between hackerthink and spacial orientation. this is a great follow up to that story. it would be nice if there was a feature that would connect the two (something like a suggested th
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by kingsley_20 17y ago
Always know, and work an angle. Most stories have multiple facets - the entrepreneur's personality, background, the product, it's target market, where it's developed, what tech it uses etc - they can all be turned into angles interesting
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by kingsley_20 17y ago
the performance didnt live up to the demand -timeouts and 503s were frequent when users subscribed to the feeds. I needed a plan for scaling and success and i wanted to pay.
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by kingsley_20 17y ago
the problem is that you seem to be looking for a solution in the form of a design process, when what you really need is an organizational/political fix. You have wicked smart UI people ( http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/ ). you just need to le
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by kingsley_20 17y ago
we don't nearly have as many of these kinds of posts on HN as I would enjoy seeing.
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by kingsley_20 17y ago
The "social media firehose": http://pipes.yahoo.com/update_maker/social_media_fire_hose . It's usually listed in the popular listings in the top-3 as "Update Maker", a sub-pipe now, but was my first pipe. The pipe times out pretty much mo
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by kingsley_20 17y ago
I built one of the most popular pipes on Yahoo! pipes (the Social Media Firehose - provides alerts from various social media searches for terms you want to track). I spent months trying to get in touch with someone, anyone on the Y! platf
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What Would You Do With A Billion?(blog.sforce.com)
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by kingsley_20 17y ago
Yes, it's happened to me too. Mostly because I thought I'd signed in with clickpass, which I had, but had also created a password. It did come to me finally, or I'd be stuck using HN from the same machine.
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by kingsley_20 17y ago
factoryjoe's UI-Pattern collection is one of my secret UI weapons.
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by kingsley_20 18y ago
Speech is not code. Repeating yourself, and others, has value in ways peculiar to social animals.
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by kingsley_20 18y ago
I definitely remember sex in both, the foundation as well as the robot series. However, I agree with the point of your second paragraph. You may be illustrating your point better than you had planned to- your example of Asimov doesn't quite
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by kingsley_20 18y ago
Recommender systems are hard to do even within domains with well understood semantics. Applying them broadly across all human decisions seems to be a bit of stretch. Makes for very amusing anecdotes though.
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by kingsley_20 18y ago
As do I. I left them feedback that "Apparently, you have a cross-site request forgery vulnerability: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=564145"
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by kingsley_20 18y ago
One of the positive aspects of this community to me is that responses are usually well-considered and (often) considerate. I worry that a near real-time response mechanism will affect the quality of discourse adversely. Or maybe I'm just ge
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by kingsley_20 18y ago
I'd say. I miss the rainbow hued cornucopia of Indian mango markets. Yes, even blue mangoes.
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by kingsley_20 18y ago
I'm both a friend of the founders and a customer (conference/business user). They're definitely not the kind of people who believe "any publicity is good publicity." That said, they have a wide variety of people using the site, posting ev
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by kingsley_20 18y ago
more importantly, digg's on the home page of hacker news.