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squarecat

131 karma · joined December 1, 2011

Please delete this account. Hacker News has become a self-masturbitory echo chamber. Tech Crunch and HN should stop pretending they're not into each other and just get it on already.
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squarecat··on Do Something Meaningful - Coding for the World
I freely offer givhub.co and/or .net to the cause. (I will maintain their registration or will gladly pass that responsibility over, need be.)
squarecat··on Do Something Meaningful - Coding for the World
Step 1) Compel owner of givhub.com to do something meaningful with their domain.

Step 2) Humbly request the wizards of Github to port a suitable form of the site suited to this endeavor.

Step 3) Contribute!

squarecat··on Tevatron confirms a 115-135 GeV Higgs
Is that page TRYING to make me hate the internet??
squarecat··on Show HN: GPS + Calendar + Traffic = always on time
Great idea. Here's what I've observed:

1) Way over-estimated the "time to bounce" for an event. It happened to be just over an hour from occurring and when I changed the start time to "manually" account for rough travel time, a more reasonable Bounce time was suggested.

2) Throws "unrecognizable event location" for a typical address (which Google Calendar takes no issue with): Location Name, Street Address, City, ST ZIP

(Wanted to see if back-to-back events made recommendation based on being at the preceding event location, but... see previous error)

squarecat··on The Copycats at Hacker News
This is far from a new phenomenon: look at the early days of the automobile up to today's KIRF iPhones.
squarecat··on Clear: doing for To Do lists what Dropbox did for file syncing
Ambiguous headlines: Doing for readers what George Bush did for the world
squarecat··on Silicon Valley’s Productivity Secret
Well-played: http://i.imgur.com/qaPhp.png
squarecat··on US bars friends over Twitter joke
Based on my casual observations from inside the padded walls, this would be counter to the apparent goals of the shadow government.
squarecat··on How Much Is an Astronaut's Life Worth?
Sanitized for your reading pleasure: http://reason.com/archives/2012/01/26/how-much-is-an-astrona...
squarecat··on How to Make It on Craigslist
Here, you're gonna want this: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&...
squarecat··on Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else
http://eqi.org/defensive_people_are_insecure.htm#Dealing%20w...
squarecat··on MPAA's Chris Dodd Calls SOPA Defeat a 'Watershed Event'
MY EYES! Thank you, Clearly... http://www.evernote.com/clearly/
squarecat··on Megaupload down, FBI Charges Seven With Online Piracy
I guess I missed the press release that the announced the FBI's change in sponsorship. Are they adding the the UMG logo to their uniforms and vehicles?
squarecat··on Megaupload down, FBI Charges Seven With Online Piracy
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DontExplainTheJok...
squarecat··on Show HN: AutoGlance is the Hipmunk for Used Car Searches
What's the reason for not offering more scope limiters?
squarecat··on Show HN: AutoGlance is the Hipmunk for Used Car Searches
Do I have to go figure out what Hipmunk is the _____ of to understand it too?
squarecat··on Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name
I will say from first-hand experience that, technically, you are correct. However, much cash is generated through the friction of their purchasing path.
squarecat··on Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name
Sorry to worry you, I darkened the sidebars so as to suggest that they are a bit "loud" compared to the primary content. They only contain tertiary tasks, though I suppose that's arguable for the legend.

I like BustAName's AJAX-powered containment of the features, though a redesign is in order.

Aside from design considerations, you may want to look at how you can point users in the right direction before they arrive at the results page and then have to starting filtering or start over to achieve more desirable results.

For example, you could offer corrections to potential typos. If a typo is not detected (or disregarded), provide some likely criteria for the eventual results, starting with common scope limiters for domain names.

I acknowledge that your product name is "lean" but there are possibilities for domains that I can safely opine that a significant majority of users will be uninterested in, and I'm not sure from the results page effectively communicates whether those have been sifted out or not.

Seems there is still demand, and room, for simplified domain search. Cheers!

squarecat··on Review my startup - Lean Domain Search: The fastest way to find a domain name
First impressions: http://i.imgur.com/gOeyj.png

Superior in practice: http://www.bustaname.com/word_maker

Though I prefer where you've started.

Also, your favicon is... suggestive of something entirely different. Perhaps a less literal image would be better?

squarecat··on Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?
If only because the effort has to approach the magnitude of all or nothing, otherwise it will likely be fruitless.
squarecat··on What's new in Linux 3.2
Soooo, anyone care to translate this into Bourgeois Geek? o_O
squarecat··on STRIP Act targets TSA uniform: End 'impersonation' of 'real cops'
The American Federation of Government Employees said the bill was insulting to the 44,000 TSA workers it represented and did "nothing to add to our national security." - - - What's that you say? The TSA is insulting to human beings and does nothing to add to our national security?

What will the leading actors in security theater wear, then?

squarecat··on Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?
For legal reasons, there is likely an ICANN policy regarding retaining of customer records for a period of time.
squarecat··on Show HN: A new way to consume the social web
Needs activity indicator for main content area. My first search appeared to just hang for a few seconds.
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