BenjaminN

Love this!

Hey, did you get the idea after seeing http://smwh.re ?

I told more about this on Cool Hunting [0] but basically I'm manually selecting the best one. So I have a list of ~150 shots, I'm sorting by likes (which most of the time is not relevant at all) and removing all the #selfies using a face recognition algorithm.

[0] http://www.coolhunting.com/travel/smwhre-app.php

Might be slow because of the HN effect. Saving a place is a great idea, but that means creating accounts, and that complicates everything. You might just "like" the place on facebook.

I will. And there's also a sidebar/menu when you click on the logo, but that's not obvious at all.

Randomness is not nice with you today, I'm sorry. My advice: don't play any lottery game.

Man, I'm so sorry for your back button, I hope he's okay :3

I have a lot of favorite ones, but the craziest is certainly this one: http://smwh.re/door-to-hell

I finally have a good reason to go to Turkmenistan !

Ahah, I had that idea too, but there's a security problem with images from Instagram. Long story short: they don't allow cross-origin resource sharing, so that doesn't work.

Hey, thanks !

The web and foursquare.

How many of those do we need? At least this one is using flat design. Guys, you should call it flatcoin, that's a good name too.

I had a free keyboard by just asking when I bought my iMac three years ago. Just go to an Apple Store if you want a free trackpad.

Was it before or after 4chan was created? :-)

I actually never realized the banking system was not trustful. Obviously, I thought that when I entered my credit card number, you can easily check I have enough money, switch the money from one account to another, and let the store knows the money is now in his account. But it's obviously much more complicated.

When it will be as easy to buy a bitcoin as it is to buy, say, an ebook, it will go up significantly.

For example, I tried to buy some last monday and realized that I had to justify my address, my bank account, my identity and so on. I still can't figure out why it's so complicated to buy a bitcoin. I've been waiting for my bitcoin-central account since then, and received confirmation for my account on bitstamp last saturday. I still have to transfer some money there.

My question is: why is it so complicated to buy bitcoins?

Why is Bashar Al-Assad on this list?

In which country living with $75k is living below the poverty line exactly?

Why would you do a 10 minutes introduction video ! I can't watch anything longer than 2 minutes.

Thanks. Not sure if I'm ready to open the source code.

Thank you !

Thanks man. Yeah I haven't had the time to write on it. Just the About page: http://blog.tripovore.com/about/

Thank you ! I really think the main problem with most of those apps is that you have to register to do anything. I was trying to avoid that.

Thanks man. Routes are hard to do with Google Maps + Google Directions. But you get an idea of the walking time it would take you, between steps. But there's a bug I have to fix there.

Google Places API

I'm working on something similar at http://tripovore.com

Basically I think city guides are obsolete (they have been there for 200 years with no major innovation) and have to be reinvented and trip planning automatized using APIs we have online. I currently use 6 of them: foursquare, songkick, instagram, google places, google translate and facebook. I've been working on this for the past 8 months, but I'm having UX difficulties keeping such a complex problem as simple as possible. I first started this during the foursquare hackathon 2011 and the project won the grand prize (called my next trip at that time).

Would love to hear any feedbacks you got at feedback@tripovore.com

Thanks!

Shitty move from facebook, because 1°) this is a major security issue, 2°) could have done a lot of damages, 3°) who coded this in the first place, seriously?

Come on guys, just give him the money.

Tyler, I have two things to say about this.

1°) I think you don't get it: when you're Facebook, Google or any other company receiving and interviewing thousands of candidates for a job, you're having a different hiring strategy than a small startup. Their strategy is "hiring a bad programmer costs us more than rejecting a good one". So they tend to reject good programmers, but they mostly reject bad programmers. In the end: they only hire good programmers, and that's what matters. In contrast, startups are having the "it costs us more to reject a good programmer than to hire a bad one" strategy. So they hire more easily, most of the time, even if in the end they hire average/bad programmers, they don't care.

2°) I was interviewed for a front-end job at facebook, and I didn't get in. I think I'm not the best programmer around, but I'm okay, and I would do a great job at facebook. And just so you know : my first interview question was way way way harder than any of your questions. I think those puzzles are a good way to spot good programmers amongst thousands of good/average/bad programmers. I'll give you a really simple example: find the highest number in an array. You can find it using several different ways, but if you just go through the whole array, you might be a good programmer, but the next person I'd interview might be one too, and he will find it with a much lower complexity. I'd hire him. Simple as that.

Bottom line — here's the question I was asked at facebook : you have a matrix of letters, and you have to find all the words you can do with it. For a front-end/product design job. And I'm not posting an article saying they suck at hiring.