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By day, I'm your typical code monkey. But by night, I'm an aspiring entrepreneur. My dream is to create something brand new that many people will love and enjoy. I have recently started www.happynerdshirts.com in hopes of fulfilling that dream.
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outdooricon··on Ask HN: Is Bash for Windows good enough to replace a Linux/Mac terminal?
It's actually not being ignored, the fix is in active development: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/468#issuec...
outdooricon··on Getting Press for Your Startup
I'm curious, what value do you gain from something like the Austin American Statesman? I assume the main goal here of the PR is really to get links back to your site, so a higher value site like Tech Crunch would get you a higher value link back. Or, am I wrong, and the real point here is that something just needs to come up when someone Google's your startup.
outdooricon··on We're Andromium. Making the Superbook, a $99 Android Laptop Shell. AMA
You mention that you can write code on the Superbook, but I've yet to find any good ide in Android. Any plans to create or partner with someone to get something like Atom running in Andromium/Android? Do you have a particular favorite that you always use right now?
outdooricon··on How to Pitch Your Company
Anyone else have trouble figuring out how to determine market size? Do I have to spend thousands of dollars for independent research online or is there another way that I'm just too naive as a developer to be aware of?
outdooricon··on Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?
this would be a good separate Ask HN
outdooricon··on Palantir acquires Kimono
Was really hoping someone would share a comment like this, thank you. I feel like I just got completely screwed by Kimono...
outdooricon··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)
Minneapolis, MN | REMOTE (US-only) or ONSITE | Full-Time | Front-End Engineer | Novu

Novu is a web health platform which helps our users to exercise, eat better, get more sleep, etc… basically live longer and better. We’re a fully funded, stable startup, growing extremely fast… already signed major accounts.

I’m the front-end architect and guild lead. I’m looking for 2 passionate front-end engineers who absolutely love javascript and want to be a part of our enthusiastic guild.

Our dev culture has 5 key facets: collaboration, humility, trust, responsibility and learning. Those facets are crucial to us maintaining a great culture and so you’ll need to demonstrate those to show you fit in.

     == About You ==
- Strong background creating SPA’s with Backbone, Ember, React, or Vue.

- Understanding of OO design

- Extra points for Rails and SQL knowledge

- Enjoy working with people you can rely on and learn from, and you bring a lot to the table yourself.

- Willing to leave your ego at the door and are open to learning from those around you.

- Stay up to speed on new technologies and introduce them to your teammates.

     == What We're Offering ==
- Strong salary and incentive compensation

- Seriously incredible health and dental insurance

- Paid technical conference attendance (Fluent two years in a row so far)

- MacBook Pro with 27” Thunderbolt

If you’re interested, shoot me an email at johnathon.sanders(@)novu.com with a link to your github profile (or example project code of how you write), a description of your background, and a description of what currently excites you in the tech community.

outdooricon··on Babun: a Windows shell
Does this one work well on the Surface Pro 3? It's been frustrating with other because either they don't handle the high-density well or they aren't touch compatible...
outdooricon··on Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was a Shitty New Boss
Looks like the startup is StaffedUp, src: http://missouribusinessalert.com/entrepreneurs/64346/2015/09...
outdooricon··on The Teflon Toxin
http://www.yourcookwarehelper.com/cookware-college/healthy-c...
outdooricon··on Stop Using Constructors in JS (2012)
done
outdooricon··on Adobe Brackets hits 1.0
Still no support for hdpi in Windows
outdooricon··on JSON Patch – a format for describing changes to a JSON document
Would anyone be willing to explain when this is used? I'm a little confused, is this format for patch updates from the client to the server? If so, then I assume it's for NoSQL db's that have deep documents, so that you know what part of the document needs to be updated... do you currently have to send the entire document in a patch? Are there client side model libs that will track object changes and format output in this way for the patch request (the js libs listed on the page look pretty low level)? Or am I misunderstanding this entirely...
outdooricon··on From Backbone to React: Our Experience Scaling a Web Application
Vue.js has shown to be even more performant than React: http://vuejs.org/perf/
outdooricon··on Easel: We've Added CSS Editing
I've been using Easel for a month now, and I can honestly say it's awesome!
outdooricon··on Google-styled Bootstrap
That's really cool! I especially like the Google bar component.
outdooricon··on Ask HN: Anyone have a github repo they'd like someone to contribute to?
I've been trying to make infinite scroll better, by including History API support: https://github.com/outdooricon/infinite-scroll-with-history
outdooricon··on Chat Trumps Meetings
Oh, good to know, thanks!
outdooricon··on JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only
I've always been very pro-Eclipse... however this kind of price and the feature list have me clicking the IntelliJ buy button
outdooricon··on Chat Trumps Meetings
I'd love to know what chat server they use at GitHub.
outdooricon··on When REST isn't Good Enough
The platform support argument is not very persuasive here. The beauty of open source and the community is that when you combine a popular service with common platforms that are likely to be used, it is likely someone in the community will release the needed api. Why not provide some community support for the platforms, but allow the users to release an api where they know their needs better than you do?

On the other hand, the security argument is quite strong. Improperly implemented SSL handshaking, especially when dealing with payment transactions like they do, has the potential to be devastating. But this is where interacting with the community that is making the api's would be key. There's a lot of value to be had when company and community development work together. They could contribute the ssl code themselves to the open source client projects.

outdooricon··on Why Early Detection Is the Best Way to Beat Cancer
The article concludes with the hope that Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) could be extremely useful as another step towards reducing false-postives. This article was written in 2008 and even though it's 4 years later, according to the Canary Foundation's website ( http://www.canaryfoundation.org/research/ovarian-cancer-clin... ), they are STILL waiting on FDA approval for the CEUS microbubbles...
outdooricon··on Show HN: Shirtloop
After reading the site and clicking the sign up button, it appears that this is for a "one run" job of x shirts. What if I am interested in on demand printing... any plans to support that (for example, printing as I get orders, which could only be a couple shirts at a time)?

Also, I'm concerned about quality of print, with the unknown of who these printers are, how do i know that it's a good quality print? Is there a guarantee?

outdooricon··on Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app
This is really nice! If a project got accepted into Kickstarter, would it be better to stay with them or use this instead? The benefit of exposure to a large community as a Kickstarter project is pitted against the extra 5% that they take... How do you turn exposure into a monetary value for comparison? Pricing of ads maybe?
outdooricon··on Ask HN: Why don't people share our viral page with their friends?
That is true, I don't have to. At this point, it might not even be worth changing since our new focus is on beginning Kickstarter... and that should look nicer.
outdooricon··on Ask HN: Why don't people share our viral page with their friends?
It has been a little frustrating being stuck within that default template. At least I've been able to use it to let people in on our status and our story as we're building for launch, but I won't deny that the biggest appeal of putting a Launchrock site up was hoping that it would excite people to spread the news themselves.

Thank you for your honesty though... I am really excited for when we have an actual shop up!

outdooricon··on Ask HN: Why don't people share our viral page with their friends?
Ah I see, so the incentive value is just too plain... people may not have the hope that they will get a large enough incentive to make it worthwhile. This is something I hadn't considered... I like your suggestions, especially the first one with 50%. We used to have the incentive more competitive, the top 10 people who had the most friends signed up would get a free shirt, but once again that would mean you'd have to think more about your sharing and check back in.

Very good insight!

outdooricon··on Ask HN: Why don't people share our viral page with their friends?
Yah, I think you're right... we'll definitely have to do that. Also, glad to hear that you're on board with Kickstarter :)
outdooricon··on Ask HN: Why don't people share our viral page with their friends?
Very interesting... I'll have to consider what we can do to update the page, while still working within the confines of LaunchRock.
outdooricon··on Ask HN: Why don't people share our viral page with their friends?
I'm not completely familiar with Hacker New's rules, but I'm a little concerned about being considered spam if I post again. Do you think it'd be ok to just go ahead and make another post?
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