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Show HN: Upboat, idea validation with a twist
74 points by neoveller 13y ago|43 comments
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by neoveller 13y ago
In case anyone's curious (as I was) about Javascript's Math.random(), here's an implementation I wrote and executed in Chrome on a 300x300 div: http://i.imgur.com/63M2Adb.png
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by neoveller 13y ago
I think this is the first post I've ever intentionally "kudos"'d. Launches are hard. The title is intentional link-bait for HN, but it rings at least in part true: a grand launch carries a lot of expectations, but means only the start of an
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by neoveller 14y ago
I'm surprised nobody in the comments or even in the OP has mentioned the prevalence of "How to get into YC", "How to hack your way into YC", etc. submissions that pop up on HN every cycle. There really have been a lot of those and they usua
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by neoveller 14y ago
Signed up maybe a month back, but still awaiting any "offers" to review. I'm excited to see if this works, only because I hate the archaic process in place. Good luck!
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by neoveller 14y ago
Sendhub took a chance on me when I was just half a year into programming and one hackathon API prize in. I've been set ever since.
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by neoveller 14y ago
Launch Hackathon!
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by neoveller 14y ago
But did they harass you at all? Downtown Palo Alto has one on every street corner too, and they don't bother anyone. But Tenderloin... after walking through Westwood and PA for several years now, I still just plain don't feel safe in the Te
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by neoveller 14y ago
Has Westwood gotten worse since I graduated UCLA in 2010? By my memory, there were only several decipherably-homeless individuals wandering about. In most cases, they would talk at me, mumbling, and didn't actually talk TO me in a real atte
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by neoveller 14y ago
I just shot you an invite to the PenFM beta, because you hit it on the head. www.pen.fm is taking on that end-to-end publishing challenge, and then some. Having worked in epublishing for a few years now, I think I've finally come up with a
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by neoveller 14y ago
Glad to see two big dogs from 37Signals calling for this a day apart from each other. www.pen.fm is actually moving straight into this direction as a platform to allow self-publishing of all sorts of mediums. Super-clean and perfect convers
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by neoveller 14y ago
Just until you've clicked close on him enough times... then never again... you'll miss him, you'll see.
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by neoveller 14y ago
Oddly enough, I'm very compelled to believe Clippy may be a very useful on-boarding tool for new users to websites.
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by neoveller 14y ago
You're probably right. Better Home Depot (node w/ express) than IKEA (RoR). In my defense, my full time positions labeled me an engineer. On that note, I don't use any prebuilt front-end libraries.
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by neoveller 14y ago
Browser? Steps to repro?
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by neoveller 14y ago
Thank you!
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by neoveller 14y ago
Thanks for that. I looked it up and it seems they declare it a bit differently, with grids. Worth adapting, though!
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by neoveller 14y ago
It really is good feedback. I didn't come to HN expecting sunshine and rainbows as a response--but it was nice to see. I'm not going to be shy about taking harsh feedback constructively. It seems people want an option for a reading/layout m
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by neoveller 14y ago
What happened to it?
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by neoveller 14y ago
Good catch. Beta release will accomodate all the things then, including a clean view that may or may not still include social feedback components. Even more fun, the bigger scheme includes the ability to export these stories directly on-dem
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by neoveller 14y ago
A wall of text is often more a reason to instant close-tab, especially with our short to long form target content lengths.
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by neoveller 14y ago
Yep, IE still doesn't support css columns, so until I focus on compatibility I'm giving you the interfaceless mobile version.
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by neoveller 14y ago
I thought I made it clear how to navigate (why you would want to go to page 2 if you hadn't finished page 1?), but I guess you're right. I'm pushing navigation arrow buttons live right now. Sorry about that--Internet connection at my place
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by neoveller 14y ago
#2 is very fair, but I'll also note that growing up as a kid with two parents who had masters degrees in mathematics (from Warsaw Polytechnic), it was actually near impossible to learn math from them. I think it's also very difficult for me
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PenFM: Returning as an Engineer(pen.fm)
47 points by neoveller 14y ago|35 comments
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by neoveller 14y ago
Indeed I am bootstrapping from basically nothing. I have this horrible tendency to leave a job right when I have just a few months of runway. It really puts my feet to the fire :) pen.com is going to fet a pretty penny, I imagine in the hig
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by neoveller 14y ago
I have a few months of runway. My previous engineer was my dad, and didn't have a sense of urgency about it. I have a month or two of runway now, and every time there's a bug to fix, that bug is the most important thing ever--because until
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by neoveller 14y ago
Because when you're bootstrapped and can't buy a 3 letter dotCom for $55/year, FM doesn't look so bad. So we're working with it, and kind of playing with the slogan "broadcast lit".
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by neoveller 14y ago
What do you mean exactly by "too expensive to build"? I taught myself how to code a year ago, and I managed to build a pretty complete platform in a month. To put this in some other perspective as well, I started a similar startup Neovella
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by neoveller 14y ago
Though I think you may be jumping the gun on how "most people" are going to interpret 1/4th of an image, it's important to note that the full PenFM project is also built to accomodate single-author works that may or may not be the best qual

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