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JGuo | 11 years ago | on: Camoji – text animated gifs from your camera

HN is a crap shoot and we're not going to organize an upvote ring. So yes, it's necessary.

JGuo | 11 years ago | on: Boosted Boards Review – One month in San Francisco

A Loaded deck alone would cost that much. Yeah it is pretty expensive. But factoring in parking costs, taxi costs, muni costs, time, etc it's definitely worth it. I think about it as a transportation vehicle, so it's more in the league of a scooter, motorcycle, nice road bike. Perhaps the price will come down with time, but as of now I think demand is well exceeding supply.

JGuo | 11 years ago | on: Introducing Payment Pages with Nas, Marc Andreessen, and Code.org

looks like https://ribbon.co/hany but for bitcoin.

JGuo | 11 years ago | on: HipChat is now free for unlimited users

Just moved our team to slack as well. Has definitely been a better experience.

JGuo | 12 years ago | on: Post Flat Design

Designers have been using animations to signal affordances in buttons and actionable elements. Drop shadows are still effective in doing this. Every design trend has been a reaction to the previous one. As interaction designers, we should always be thinking about the end user.

JGuo | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Kurikku – Rap Genius for Code

Awesome! Had this idea as well, glad you're building it. Best of luck

JGuo | 12 years ago | on: Startup School Notes: The Book – Profits go to Watsi

Amazing. Keep up the great work Greg!

JGuo | 13 years ago | on: Introducing Poke for Mobile

This post is relevant: http://dcurt.is/photos-for-communication

JGuo | 13 years ago | on: When I first heard the name "Safari"

Not sure of the actual origin, but it seems to me that Safari is a reference to "journey", and works with the OS X naming after big cats. Then again it could just make sense in hindsight.

JGuo | 13 years ago | on: Flick based scrolling in javascript

very nice interaction, great work - I also agree with keeping the indicator, it's a nice touch.

JGuo | 13 years ago | on: Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987

I prefer the windows 8 logo much more: http://www.fastcodesign.com/multisite_files/codesign/imageca...

The unsolicited redesign "slate" logo is cool too: http://www.minimallyminimal.com/2012/7/3/the-next-microsoft....

JGuo | 14 years ago | on: YC Facelift: EXEC

Well that's interesting... I redesigned the Exec splash page as well.

http://dreamersofday.com/Exec-Redesign

I like your color scheme and how you focused on convincing prospective customers that Exec is a trusted and vetted service.

JGuo | 14 years ago | on: Design is becoming a competitive advantage for startups

Beating a dead horse here, but Craigslist was able to acquire a critical mass of users by being first to market. If you actually examine the overall user experience from a functional UX perspective, Craigslist isn't actually that bad.

JGuo | 14 years ago | on: StackOverflow for your Intranet

Yes I can attest to the ease of OSQA/Bitnami. It's what I used to create http://chicagofounders.com. Thanks for including OSQA on Bitnami, as it was a relatively simple deployment!

JGuo | 14 years ago | on: Shake to Undo (for Mac OS X)

it's like an etch a sketch :)

JGuo | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: I created a feature I wanted in Google Maps

Ah this is a great idea. It's like a more universal chrometophone extension

JGuo | 14 years ago | on: The (Un?)Importance of Design

Correct. Design goes well beyond just aesthetics but encompasses the overall usability and customer experience.

JGuo | 14 years ago | on: Hello Backbone.js - A step-by-step tutorial

I had made plans to learn backbone.js today. I checked out HN this morning and voila there's a fresh tutorial posted :) Thanks so much!

JGuo | 15 years ago | on: Show HN: Requesting feedback on my side-project chatteranalytics.com

Very useful tool. Especially with a large data set you can analyze where people are clicking and the most common paths through a design.

JGuo | 15 years ago | on: The Dangers of Relying on Facebook

The pixamid situation is similar to the reason the breakup notifier got banned by Facebook originally. A large amount of users were deleting wall posts made by the app, causing the app to get flagged and automatically shutdown temporarily.