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Hi Frej, your MVP landing page is beautifully designed, but it it does not tell me why I would need your product, or really what it is. There are lists and lists of features, but no demos or examples to explain why they are useful. Sell benefits, not features. Good luck!

Love the "As not yet soon on:" logos at the bottom which tweets to those publications about Snapbugz. Great marketing hack.

Selection bias? Unpaid founders are more likely to be young and roaming HN than the Founder/CEO of a venture-backed startup.

As a white foreigner who has considered travelling to the US for a holiday or working in the Valley, these types of reports have a long-term chain reaction on my willingness to start thinking about packing my bags for the States. I wonder if the powers that be understand how far-reaching bad treatments of foreign travellers can be. Or maybe I'm just one developer and my sentiment has no effect in the long run. Do other developers feel the same?

I opted to use TeamCity for all my CI exactly because of the UI. It's not perfect either, but I think it is vastly superior. Bigger install, though and relies on a JVM.

The reasons to wear a black shirt are far simpler than the author purports: contrast & focus.

I learned this while presenting. If you wear clothing with a slogan, you are giving your audience a potential distraction, or something to read while they should be listening. Even a colored shirt can be a potential distraction, unless it is worn specifically for the purpose of brand association.

This is why you should not wear a clever slogan while presenting, even if it's your own brand.

As a light, Caucasian presenter, I prefer to wear a dark, featureless shirt because it highlights my facial features and directs the audience to my face and speech. Except for my hands, which I can use for pointing or demonstrating a process, in which case, I don't want a long sleeved-shirt to get in the way, and when there are plenty of lights, to stay cool.

> But my fingers don't naturally fall precisely in a line

Switching to a Kinesis solved this one for me. All the columns are perfectly vertical.

+1 because of justified, though anecdotal, experience. Which ergonomic keyboard did you try?

@jrs99, I explicitly state that I do not expect an increase in speed. Especially when switching to a more efficient keyboard layout, like Colemak or Dvorak, after using QWERTY for 15+ years.

I expect it to take at least a year to reach my old QWERTY speed on Colemak. Sure, speed is important, but comfort: that's the Rolls Royce of typing.

@baddox, my fingers' comfort level when looking up a contact and phoning them on my Nokia 3100's is indistinguishable from my ambient comfort level. Why should switching to a smartphone provide any useful data?

Sidenote: the question for any new technology should always be "Why not?" Not "Why???".

For this particular anecdotal case, I am not claiming I have the answer, but please consider trying it before raising an indefensible argument. I have tried a bunch of keyboards and layouts. Surely my derivations are fallible, but empirically, they should carry more weight than a "keyboard enthusiast" who has not even tried a different keyboard layout or any of the well-known ergonomic keyboards.

@baddox, which keyboard layout are on, QWERTY?

Sean, have you tried any of the ergonomic keyboards which you find pointless? Unless you have, your argument seems a lot like my ol' man's arguments against <Internet/Facebook/YouTube> a few years ago.

Atwood specifically addresses the fallacy of "thinking vs typing as the bottleneck for programming" with the statement [1]: "What I'm trying to say is this: speed matters. When you're a fast, efficient typist, you spend less time between thinking that thought and expressing it in code."

It's not about averaging 90wpm in code. No programmer I know does that. It's about not averaging 10wpm once you've finished thinking and want to materialize your thoughts or revert a mistake.

My work is typing, primarily code and email. Every minute I spend typing my thoughts is a minute of thought wasted.

[1]: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/11/we-are-typists-firs...

Until Jeff Atwood tries an ergonomic keyboard or layout other than QWERTY, I cannot take his keyboard cult seriously. I've owned three MS 4000s and have used QWERTY, Dvorak and Colemak keyboard layouts. Ever since I purchased a Kinesis Advantage a month ago on Colemak, going back to an MS 4000 noticeably hurts my hands. I don't type any faster, but it is far more natural to use my thumbs (our strongest fingers) for common keys like Ctrl/Space/Del/PgUp/PgDown/WinKey, especially as a climber.

I find it hard to believe a Model M could be easier on the wrists than my abhorrent Macbook Air 2012 keyboard, due to its equally straight, unnatural angle. Compared to my old Acer C312 tablet with a 5-degree angle, typing 90wpm+ for more than an hour is not sustainable.

Either Jeff types really slowly, or has golden wrists of the gods. After a few months of Colemak, I am up to 90% of my accumulated 15-year QWERTY speed, but my hands feel far more relaxed.

Could this be a medical condition on my end, or is there a real ergonomic case to be made for the aging Model M? Right now, I don't buy it.

Thank you, rriepe. It would be great if 1pxdeep let me pick color1, color2 and color3 with sensible defaults.

This is awesome! Is it possible to have a light background, while still having strong accents?

I dislike this UI because it adds more questions[1] than it takes away. "Why did it tab? Why is it loading, did I accidentally submit? Why did the tab ordering jump down, then up?" Just show me a web form and put a picture of a VISA card somewhere static.

[1] Don't Make Me Think, Steve Krug: http://www.sensible.com/dmmt.html

The font is also hard-to-read :\. http://contrastrebellion.com/

Nice and simple. Slow down the fading text. Consider a carousel. I know they're cliched, but people understand them.

Edit: Too much text. Show some screenshots. What are the benefits? Weird logo. My brain spent too long trying to piece it together, which bothers me from a design perspective. Having the logos of your integrations (like AWS) is great!

The article is mostly fluff. There are some new classifications and limitations on which type of posts will show up in users' dashboard.

Would be nice if I could try out all the languages in the local session, just to drop any remaining objections.

So glad someone built this! Well done.

If you write bad code because your editor makes it easy for you to write code fast, then it is not your editor that is at fault.

I really want to read the docs, but the contrast is too low and hurts my eyes. Please make your text darker. Refer to http://contrastrebellion.com/

Any chance of releasing the theme within a styling framework like Bootstrap? This would be amazing for some of our internal tools and documentation.

Edit: I see the author responded to "Why isn't this open-source?" on the About page, http://devdocs.io/about

Great! Please don't stop playing when I search for something.

Have you tried the noprocrast and minaway settings?

So apparently this is old news, but I only noticed it for the first time this morning.

Hey Andy, please consider choosing a more readable font for your blog. I would love to read this article, but the thin font is hurting my eyes.

Added src/build.bat. Just missed it with my .gitignore settings.

Relax, I've added an MIT licence :).