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ajcodezon Yahoo Finance has added over 100 cryptocurrency quote pages

My roommate sells $40k worth every 3 months. In cash. He travels a lot now.

ajcodezon Coinbase down for maintenance

Good point.

ajcodezon Coinbase down for maintenance

Build a financial exchange with Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, and Redis. What could go wrong?

https://engineering.coinbase.com/november-29th-december-1st-...

ajcodezon An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange

Look to history: https://99bitcoins.com/price-chart-history/

Speculation: When Mt Gox froze withdrawals and closed it either triggered or participated in a massive correction. If Tether allegations are true, I would speculate increased volatility in a bearish direction. It should start with rising volume on USD exchanges and shrinking volume on USDT exchanges as traders withdraw BTC, USD/USDT volatility on Kraken, BTC/USD and BTC/USDT price diverging across exchanges. Chicago futures if they open will set the reference price. If BTC anchor price is volatile alts will probably get hurt. KRW fiat rates will probably be affected. If it dips in the long run it could be a good buying opportunity.

ajcodezon Firefox will soon flag sites that have been hacked

It's a little different because the competitor does not want the digital assets being hacked, but rather just wants the hack to be on record.

ajcodezon Firefox will soon flag sites that have been hacked

To the extent data breaches are only committed by external bad guys it’s fine. If hacking a competitor causes a user visible flag, there is now incentive.

ajcodezon Tether Critical Announcement

Twitter account @Bitfinexed [1] has been calling out Tether and Bitfinex for possible fraud for a while. Time for popcorn, see how this plays out.

[1]: https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed

ajcodezon Visual Studio Live Share

TextMate + RMate works great for editing files on a remote linux box. https://github.com/textmate/rmate

ajcodezon Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping?

I assume this puppeteer:

- https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer

ajcodezon Facebook asks users for nude photos in project to combat revenge porn

Data mining for VR content generation?

ajcodezon Facebook asks users for nude photos in project to combat revenge porn

"Silicon Valley"

ajcodezon Broadcom Offers $105B for Qualcomm in Landmark Deal

For those unaware, KKR is the leveraged buyout king made famous in "Barbarians at the Gate".

ajcodezon Yes, but what does your startup do?

It looks like a Zapier FaaS Enterprise IoT thing.

ajcodezon Ask HN: What to do as a back-end dev and with many app ideas but can't do UX?

Keep in mind designers use lots of tools. You can't expect to sit down with a text editor, hack for a few hours, and come out with something great. You need to design first using professional tools and then build what you designed.

It took me a while but I can put together a decent site using the following tools:

- Sketch (https://www.sketchapp.com/)

- Font Pair (http://fontpair.co/)

- Paletton (http://paletton.com/)

- Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/)

- UI Gradients (https://uigradients.com/)

- Flat Icon (https://www.flaticon.com/)

I use Tachyons to limit the number of CSS choices I need to make. It works for 95% of styles and looks great. I only need to add custom classes or inline styles for special cases such as gradients, background images, transitions.

- Tachyons (http://tachyons.io/docs/)

When I design something the goal is to define components and re-use them. I usually steal components from existing projects.

- Shopify Polaris Components (https://polaris.shopify.com/components/get-started#navigatio...)

- Bootstrap Components (https://getbootstrap.com/)

- Material Components (https://material.io/components/)

- Metro UI Widgets (https://metroui.org.ua/)

Website design comes from understanding what the user wants to do and selecting components that solve the problem. I usually create a new artboard in Sketch for each purpose. For example LandingPage, PricingPage, SignInPage, SignUpPage, ResetPasswordPage, ThankYouForConfirmingEmailPage, UserSettingsPage, etc.

You should create a mobile artboard, tablet artboard, and desktop artboard for each page. You can add variants for error states, etc.

I start with the mobile artboard and add components until I accomplish the purpose. I then adapt the mobile design to tablet and desktop.

If the user needs to enter information I add a Form with a Heading, a number of Inputs with Labels, and a submit Button. If the user wants to view data I need to add a Heading, a Chart or Table, etc. If there is a lot of negative space, I find an image or commission a drawing to fill the space.

If I can't decide how it should look, I search online for inspiration. Google "login forms ui" or see how successful companies solve the problem. Adapt what they do to use my existing components, space it out so it doesn't look offensive, and I'm done.