chrisconley

Trying to finish up some client work, so I can work on my mechanical turk api and watch more vimcasts.

Sail the US east coast down to the caribbean.

This might be possible since I'm the one making the requests to mechanical turk. I'll look into their terms to see if there's anything preventing this.

How nice of you to ask, Matt. :)

All you need to do is make a http post to my api with the details of the work you want completed* with a url for me to post back the answer to. I take care of dealing with the mturk api and qualifying answers.

* Title, price, and a form partial which provides instructions and the form inputs to be answered.

Taking a break from coding and contacting a few people to alpha test my api, which provides an awfully simple front-end to Mechanical Turk.

Maybe I'm a little slow, but I finally see where they were going with the Sketchup acquisition.

I'll probably be there. I'm the other guy under matt1's response. :)

Maybe a better way to put it is that testing GUI components is not a complete waste of time, but it gives you a lot less bang for the buck.

Exactly. Having a three year timeline allows you to have an overall strategy that you can incrementally build towards.

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini

Don't forget about our Hacker News SICP Book Club too: http://groups.google.com/group/hacker-news-reads-sicp

This is awesome. It would've have been super useful building our mobile interface to Philadelphia's regional rail schedules where we scraped SEPTA's site for data. http://www.septa.org/service/sched/r2s_wk.html is an example of the markup we had to deal with.

I think I'll have to go back and crosscheck your selectors with what I came up with to see if we can't improve anything. Thanks!

The Arduino site itself has a ton of great examples that helped me get started: http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/HomePage

There's a great screencast about how to screencast over at peepcode.com ($9)

The Freenode channel has been changed to ##SICP

Freenode channel ##hn-sicp has been setup for weekly meetups and/or ongoing discussion.

I also set up http://groups.google.com/group/hacker-news-reads-sicp for arranging discussion times and any other miscellaneous things if needed.

how does ##hn-sicp sound?

Forget the email thing; we'll set up an irc channel :)

It looks like there is at least a few people interested. Should we all leave a comment with contact info (if it's not in your profile)?

My email is chris.m.conley at the goog.

That's a great idea. We could also set up a google group(or something similar) if people were interested.

I wasn't aware that this was an actual problem.

i mean 4 days? really?

an oldie but a goodie

awesome stuff though Kocera seems to be drinking a little too much of his own koolaid

i thought that it must be too good to be true when i snagged you.me (or so i thought-hehe)

reading that made me really itchy

yeah i'm wondering the same

Speed is not the solution. A better interface for mobile devices is.

whoops, just saw the techcrunch article on same topic here at HN :)

great work guys; i've been really impressed with it so far. it's been super helpful for me!

yes, everyone's being pretty nice here, but it's well deserved. you guys definitely have something going here.