nodemaker

They come out when you press the red + button and go back in when you press it again!

As the maker of the app, I can assure you that the app is not doing any such thing.

It is just loading the page in a simple iOS webview.The social icons that you see come out when you press the button in the centre and go back in when you press it again.

Also I really liked that article :)

Commenting will be added in the next version.

I agree it is an important feature and I will finalize this asap.

To give you a concrete estimate it should be submitted and approved by mid july.

You're right.I should have thought of that.

Correction Made.Now it shows one icon.

Thanks a lot!

I tried...but xAuth gave me a lot of trouble!

Will try to add both readability and pocket in the next version.

Here is a screenshot of your comment :)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23360122/Photo%20May%2031%2C%209%200...

Also some more improvements to the comments UI coming soon in the next version!

Yes you can add bookmarks to instapaper.

I have used AwesomeMenu and acknowledged it in the acknowledgement section.

CLCascade however I have not used.Took me a lot of time but I made my own!Was totally worth it!

Thanks for the advice.Can you please point me towards where I can find some knowledge about building hype.I have seen some companies do this (Recent Example - LightTable).

In my case my product is really different and I dont know how I can get people to understand what it is without actually getting them to play with it.My belief is that my MVP will be the best tool for building hype.

As a single founder I am sort of confused about these things too.Here is what my plan is -> Basically become a code monkey for a first four-five months and do minimal promotion marketing.Once MVP is ready then do full time marketing pitching and fix bugs once in a while.If you get funded hire more people and more coding.

Anyone see a problem with that approach?

Try my app http://hackerno.de

Still in beta but works well on the iPhone.

If you need a promo code let me know.

What you design should be very very simple to someone when she starts to play with it.But as she plays more and more she should discover gradually(exponentially) the great underlying complexity in order to achieve the simplicity on the surface.

All the great codebases,machines,mathematical equations,laws of nature,even a bacterial cell seem to have this property.

This could not be further from Steve Jobs vs Dennis Ritchie.

In fact there is no Steve Jobs vs Dennis Ritchie.Tesla vs Edison however was very real.

My intelligence fails me whenever I try!

Please clarify what you mean by "but they will never actually utilize my potential".Does that mean that you simply dont want to work at those places?

Its a roller coaster ride for sure...one day you can change the world and the next you are piece of shit!

Clickable link to app

http://hackerno.de

What exactly do you (or for that matter Google hiring in general) consider fizzbuzz?....Is Pascals's triangle fizzbuzz?...how about an algorithm for calculating the Levenshtein Distance?

It seems like everyone has a pet favorite interview problem that they like to throw at the candidate and in my experience some of them were definitely not fizzbuzz .And then if one interviewer doesn't like you then you dont get hired.All the work you have done is irrelevant if that pet problem is not solved optimally on the whiteboard.But then of course I am probably a little incompetent too.

In the context of viral marketing, does anyone know how they came up with this formula?

Custs(t) = Custs(0) * (K ^ (t/ct +1) - 1) / (K-1)

where Custs(t) -> Number of customers at time t, K -> viral coefficient, and ct -> cycle time

EDIT : Okay I get it.

Basically the number of cycles that have occured at time t equals (t/ct+1)

Yes these problems suck.

Sometimes I have deleted my entire repository and cloned it again to update the submodules just because I changed the .gitmodules file.

Note: This actually takes less commands than messing around with .git/config.

>There is a horrible habit of people forking projects on github just so their submodule stay stable. It's broken.

Yes I do this and I hate doing it!

Yes exactly.

After you have divided your project into independent modules you have agreed that the changes in these modules are going to have minimal impact on each other, then what exactly is the point of merging the history of all those changes?.In my use case that would actually create a bigger mess.

Now I think this could perhaps be useful if there are modules that I have forked from elsewhere and the fork is going to be used in my project only.Although even then I dont see any downside of using submodules.

The downside of submodules is lack of good commands .For example a command to check out a different branch of each of my submodules - the branch which is used in this project.This could be done using the -for-each tag but its not trivial.

EDIT:In this thread zbowling makes a great argument against submodules.

There is a horrible habit of people forking projects on github just so their submodule stay stable

Seeking work - Remote

iOS Developer/Designer

Recently made HackerNode(http://hackerno.de) - An iOS app for reading Hacker News.

Twitter:http://twitter.com/nodemaker

Email:nodemaker@gmail.com.

Ok heres an insight that I want to share.

So basically if you are tired of attacking the problem vertically, just leave it and try to attack it horizontally.

Now of course unlike my fizzbuzz problem, your problem can have a lot of more dimensions than two but then it can even become more fun.

Also never forget that you are doing this because you find this the most fun thing to do.

"Following the fall of the NKVD head, Nikolai Yezhov, the new chief Lavrenti Beria chose to retry Korolev on reduced charges in 1939, but by that time Korolev was on his way from prison to a gulag camp in the far east of Siberia, where he spent several months in a gold mine in the Kolyma area before word reached him of his retrial. Towards the end of 1939 he was sent back to Moscow, but he had already sustained injuries and had lost most of his teeth due to the labor camp's brutal conditions"

And I thought my life was hard!

I think you are arguing from a social/holistic point of view.Yes with more competition society benefits as a whole and we get better products since the bar is set higher.

If you are arguing from the point of view of huge companies like IBM or Apple then Yes - being in a more competitive market makes sense as larger markets are inherently competitive.

But from the point of view someone without money,resources and who wants to start a business from scratch, it seems obvious to me that avoiding competition is a good strategy.

For example, read the story about competing pizza shops in Manhattan.Although they work hard and are doing their best, they aren't making much money.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3779423

Thanks a lot for the site...As an indie iOS dev I find it very userful!

This is one of the best things I have seen on HN in a while :)

Thanks for that.

I have been questioning myself for deciding to never work for the man again and your words reassured me.

No amount of money is enough for mediocrity to be forced upon you.