sbisker

28 ms·

211.
by sbisker 15y ago
I can say from experience that startups definitely are paying for this kind of work. The more upscale firms will make the lines they feed the media a little less obvious, and make sure you at least get the time of day with the TechCrunch's
212.
by sbisker 16y ago
It wouldn't be that new if they did - we already have interlibrary loan, especially within states and throughout academia. Just go to worldcat.org, look up the book you want, and see if your library can do ILL with any of the libraries th
213.
by sbisker 16y ago
In this case it's actually true. Try it out - it looks and feels a lot like airbnb, and it does so for good reason.
214.
by sbisker 16y ago
Wait, that Helen? So that's what you've been up to since college. Nice job. (And you too Christine.) :) A lot of great features in this thing, even from day one. The right number of different ways to do things. Very strong UI work already
215.
by sbisker 16y ago
Speaking from experience, becoming a "good" UX designer has definitely taken me at least 5,000 hours already. In that time, I did plenty - specifically, I made a whole bunch of UIs that, for one reason or another, sucked. In time, the more
216.
by sbisker 16y ago
Yes, there are only so many "chronic migraine sufferers." (That said, I know one myself, and I will send this to her the minute you launch - to those people, it is SO important to feel like someone or something is listening and helping them
217.
by sbisker 16y ago
I see what you did there. But seriously, thank you for not adding this feature as a drop down. I like how all of your drop downs appear in a horizontal line and it's very pretty. The downside to this, of course, is that there isn't an appar
218.
The 'IxD Bauhaus' - What Happens Next?(johnnyholland.org)
8 points by sbisker 16y ago|1 comments
219.
by sbisker 16y ago
Some points on c) -Don't think of it as "leading a team", think of it as finding a partner. It sounds like you want someone who can help you lead yourself -Don't totally rule out your liberal-arts-majoring friends. Some of them may actually
220.
by sbisker 16y ago
I wonder to what extent will programs like YC be funded by "donation" investments in the future? You only need a few Herokus to make enough successful founders for quite an "alumni" investment fund...and unlike my college alumni progam, few
221.
by sbisker 16y ago
I think equally as important (but not more important) as the people you're studying with, are the people who are advising you. After all, I was always told to pick a grad school by the quality of the advisors you'd get to work with, not by
222.
by sbisker 16y ago
Without having seen the app myself, could it be the case that it's designed in such a way to "strongly encourage" facebook signup? One of the design tradeoffs you or your designer may have made, consciously or unconsciously, was that some p
223.
by sbisker 16y ago
That's why you hire a student - students who are really good will often take on a project just because it, say, hones a skill they're looking to improve, or because it fits in nicely with a class assignment they need to do anyway. Or maybe
224.
by sbisker 16y ago
Awesome. Forwarded along to Mike, one of the founders. (Know him from our CHI days...ah, memories. :) ) Hope it works out for you!
225.
by sbisker 16y ago
Given her track record, I doubt Leah Culver's new company is the best example of a team who "really needed ramen money to get out the door." But that's besides the point. The point is, YC used to be a program that was 'taking a chance,' by
226.
by sbisker 16y ago
Some MIT students tried this with music CDs in a project called LAMP (the Library Access to Music Project) back in the early 2000s. Kids could use the internet to select and listen to CDs played automatically via jukeboxes over one of 16 de
227.
by sbisker 16y ago
I see a ?s2011 at the end of that URL. Has this document changed at all from when you originally wrote it two years ago?
228.
by sbisker 16y ago
Aaaaaactually... http://www.hackpittsburgh.org/ It's not quite as startup/software oriented, but everyone I knew in Pittsburgh who went tells me they're good people. There's also Dorkbot Pittsburgh, if you're into the trippy electronic ar
229.
by sbisker 16y ago
Btw, thanks for putting yourself out there. Seriously. You've taken a really important step in fixing your situation - putting yourself in situations that are unlike what you've been doing in the past (which hasn't been working for whatever
230.
by sbisker 16y ago
I think "hacking the business world" is quickly becoming the new "picking locks" amongst those who fit more general definitions of "hacker". Maybe this is a fad (like "life hacking" was a year or two back, for instance) but like all fads, s
231.
by sbisker 16y ago
Just so you're aware, TXTMob is historically the name of a famous-in-very-small-circles group SMS service from 2004. Released as an activist digital art project and used to organize protests, it's often cited as one of the original influenc
232.
by sbisker 16y ago
One of their sort options at the top of your hotel search results column is "ecstasy". I suppose that in hipmunk land, agony is to ecstasy as 0 is to 1.
233.
by sbisker 16y ago
I can tell you that as someone who was a designer before it was cool to be a designer, Intuit was present at every UX and HCI conference I attended (both academic and professional) looking for designers before it was cool to look for design
234.
by sbisker 16y ago
First of all, you should never feel stupid for feeling proud of yourself. Getting a job offer from any top technical company is an accomplishment, let alone from a company whose work you admire. It's obviously not something you should let
235.
by sbisker 16y ago
Link to the actual Snow Day Calculator: http://david.sukhin.com/Weather/Snowday/Auto-Snowday.htm
236.
16-year old builds Snow Day Calculator to predict snow days(hubbub.wbur.org)
5 points by sbisker 16y ago|1 comments
237.
by sbisker 16y ago
Come to think of it, a friend of mine was asking me for a site just like this, for movie trailers. I looked around and found there was no such site for movie trailers (that I knew of). So, you could be the first, if you were so inclined. :)
238.
by sbisker 16y ago
The first thing that jumps to mind is that while your tags UI is nice, they're appearing on top of the content. I couldn't find an easy way to close, hide or otherwise move those tags. [Edit - Whoops, I was completely wrong about that.] Als
239.
Google Science Fair (for kids aged 13-19)(google.com)
7 points by sbisker 16y ago|0 comments
240.
by sbisker 16y ago
I'm reminded of this quote from The Big Short which came up on HN a few days back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2033997

More ›