shib71

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shib71··on [dead]

Direct link: http://gent.ilcore.com/2011/08/finding-memory-leaks.html

shib71··on Startup surrealism

Fair enough, but the jarring disconnect for observers is the same.

shib71··on Startup surrealism

This reminds me of Color. As though someone has managed to create money out of spin and thin air.

shib71··on Bram Cohen: My goal is to kill off television with new launch

I notice that you aren't mentioning any either. Cohen is quoted as saying that current P2P protocols aren't good at handling large events.

shib71··on Introvert at the Party, a little art/game thing. Requires cursor.

I don't really see how this represents an introvert's experience. It does kind of match how someone with Aspergers' (or in an unfamiliar culture) might see the situation - navigating a maze they usually can't see, and having to blunder into walls on purpose to get a brief insight.

shib71··on Why Hypercard Had to Die

Visual Basic played a similar role for me many years ago. I've moved on since, but at the time it was exactly what I needed. The value of a WYSIWYG GUI editor and a simple event system to a budding developer can't be overstated.

shib71··on Show HN: My weekend project - Uberzet

You should be explaining your value proposition on the first page. If I had gone just by what I read there I would have assumed that Uberzet was an alternative upload-and-get-public-link UI.

For everyone else: it is an index of the public Dropbox files of everyone who is signed up.

shib71··on Prepare Yourselves: Facebook To Be Profoundly Changed

An announcement of an announcement. This has added nothing to HN or my day.

shib71··on Show HN: My weekend project - Chessboard picture recognition

If you can get games in machine readable format, it may be possible to develop a ML approach that figures out the most likely identifications based on relative positions and as much information as image processing provides.

shib71··on StalkerBot: view a HN user's recent comments and state of mind

Found this on the hacker day page: http://static.diffbot.com/images/webmininghackday/stalkerbot...

shib71··on Adobe Launches "Adobe Edge" - HTML5 Animation Tool

It will be interesting to see which does better - the entrenched giant or the agile upstart.

shib71··on Stop Making Sprites

Please don't submit to reddit, then submit the reddit post to HN. Unless the meta-conversion is itself interesting, the original link is better.

http://www.viget.com/inspire/stop-making-sprites-compass-sas...

shib71··on The problem with following people on Google Plus

There is plenty of room for polishing the default UI. But...

1) Google+ != Twitter. They are competing with Twitter, but that is an argument against making a Twitter clone, not for.

2) A tiny number of users would use those configuration options. Adding options that will benefit a minuscule number of power users and confuse everyone else is not a useful way for the G+ team to spend their time.

shib71··on Show HN: Google+ for Google Apps / GMail

Interesting app, but comparing it to Google+ is a bit of a stretch.

shib71··on The CMS Is Broken.

Blog engines are a subset of CMSs. They're supposed to be restrictive - that simplicity is part of their value. If they wanted a CMS that would allow them to add their own types of content, they should have gone with a CMS that was more "framework" than "application"

shib71··on Ask PG: Why not to introduce #hashtags on HN?

For what purpose?

shib71··on Changes to our policies

I've wished for change overviews like this. Paypal policy changes in particular - when they send an email simply to say that their 10 page policy document has changed, that isn't helpful.

shib71··on Suggest HN: Hacker news circle on Google+

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shib71··on How to invite people to Google+

If anyone still has an invite, I'd really appreciate it. shib71@gmail.com

shib71··on Google Taking FTC Review Seriously, Cutts Says

It's very interesting that the "lead software engineer" is considered an appropriate spokesperson in this situation. I think it says a lot about Google's internal culture in general, and Matt in particular.

shib71··on Amazon offers Texas 5,000 jobs in trade for sales-tax exemption

The idea that it is valid to insert arbitrary and tangential (if not completely unrelated) laws into bills is something about the American system that baffles me.

shib71··on Lulzsec: Have you been compromised? Check now

Really? I should give this person my email and password to find out if he already has my email and password?

shib71··on 3D Printed Bikini

The light grey on white is not helpful either.

shib71··on [dead]

Sure, you can argue that iMessages is limited due to the iOS requirement.

That isn't a small weakness - that's a killer. A replacement that isn't device independent isn't a replacement.

shib71··on Using fractals for multi-platform UI design

Follow up post: http://www.leavesofcode.com/2011/05/creating-healthy-design-...

shib71··on MIRACULOUS new AIRSHIP set to fly by 2013

I can't wait for the RAY GUNS and CLOCKWORK SPIDERS.

The use of capitals in this title is simultaneously appropriate and absurd.

shib71··on [dead]

It's already an acceptable approach with other money substitutes (gift cards, pre-paid phone cards, etc), where you have to scrape off a film to get a code.

shib71··on Raskin about how plane wings lift

Awesome quote: "It was a shock to realize that my teacher and even the library books could be wrong. And it was a revelation that I could trust my own thinking in the face of such concerted opposition."

shib71··on Conversational Content Management

This approach may work with very complex content structures, ones that aren't easy to represent in a form. The AI equivalent to a knowledgeable employee at a call centre.

On the other hand, call centres can be very irritating and filling out forms second hand is cumbersome. You need to explain why this approach is better than simplifying the forms and making the content structures more intuitive.

shib71··on Don't Store Passwords, Generate Them When Needed

How is remembering the pass-sentences different from remembering passwords?

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