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Spines11 | 14 years ago | on: Today I launched my solo project, Listry. Feedback/suggestions appreciated

It's very easy to set up, and it works alright. There is a delay for things to show up in the search results though. I think once app engine (which is what Listry runs on) implements full text search, I'll probably make my own solution using that.

Spines11 | 14 years ago | on: Today I launched my solo project, Listry. Feedback/suggestions appreciated

Haha, okay. That'll be next on my TODO list :)

Spines11 | 14 years ago | on: Today I launched my solo project, Listry. Feedback/suggestions appreciated

Thanks! Yea, building the community will be the tough part. I was planning on writing high quality articles on Listry and then hopefully some of the people that read the article would want to add their own input to the article and that's how they would get started contributing.

Any suggestions?

Spines11 | 14 years ago | on: Today I launched my solo project, Listry. Feedback/suggestions appreciated

This is the project I've been working on for the past 6 months. It combines the features of wikis with a voting system that determines the best parts of an article. There's still a lot of improvements I need to make, but I wanted to launch early and get feedback.

Spines11 | 14 years ago | on: Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You

My family uses it a lot, but only between family, and mostly at home. It's a more personal form of communication, so I feel like it's more likely to be used in a private space.

Spines11 | 14 years ago | on: Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in serious trouble

"Yeah, I don't buy that this is an invention in the 21st century, with no prior art."

Maybe not in the 21st century, but it might be in the 20th century which is when the patent was filed (1996).

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...

Spines11 | 14 years ago | on: My wife's and my holiday weekend project: A database of intro books

I searched for "cooking", and it returned the exact book I'm reading right now.

Spines11 | 14 years ago | on: Kind of Screwed

It sure seems like fair use to me, especially since he had his friend draw it, rather than deriving it from the original by putting the original through a pixelating program or something.

It's sad that since the potential losses of going to court are so high, most people have no option other than to settle.

Spines11 | 14 years ago | on: Using Chrome Web Store for App Distribution (by the numbers)

It seems like you don't have to write any extra code to become a Chrome Web Store app. "Installing" the DayZipping app just puts an icon on your home page that is a link to dayzipping.com.

This seems like a good way to get some free traffic to your web app.

Spines11 | 14 years ago | on: My gripes with JavaScript

JavaScript is definitely very easy to mess up, but if you follow best practices, I think it can actually be a pretty nice language.

Spines11 | 14 years ago | on: Tesla Roadster reaches the end of the line

Tesla's next car, a sedan, will cost $58,000. What is it that makes electric cars so expensive? I don't know much about cars, but I thought electric cars had fewer parts than a gas car. Is it just that the parts for electric cars haven't reached economies of scale yet?

Spines11 | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: My project PocketLoot (direct link)

I like the fact that I can start using it without having to sign up, and that you let me create an account later if I want to save my data.

I'm not entirely sure what I would use this for though. It seems like I have to constantly update your site with the amount of money I spend, and that is a lot of work just to be able to have a daily budget calculated for me.

I use mint.com, and I don't have to enter anything, everything is just automatically pulled from my credit cards and bank accounts. They let me set monthly budgets for different categories of spending, and let me see if I am on track for my budget or if I need to reduce my spending to meet the budget.

Spines11 | 14 years ago | on: Phil Harrison: "Apple will be the games industry"

I think it's very possible that Apple could become the casual games industry. I don't think they will have as big of an impact on the hardcore gaming market though.

Spines11 | 15 years ago | on: Show HN: Ducksboard, from nothing to private beta in four months

Looks good, how many people do you have working on it?

Spines11 | 15 years ago | on: Java.next() - The Groovy Programming Language

I've been building the web app I'm working on completely in Groovy, and running it on Google App Engine. I'm quite happy with my choice to switch over to Groovy from Java. There are 3 main features of Groovy that greatly speed up my productivity as compared to coding with Java.

1. Closures - items.find { it.name == 'groovy' } is much easier than looping.

2. Language support for collections - Maps can be declared like: [key:'value'], and lists can be declared like: [1,2,3].

3. Easier handling of nulls - The "Elvis Operator" can be used to specify defaults like: (item ?: "defaultvalue") and the safe navigation operator will return null rather than throwing a NullPointerException when doing something like this: (item?.address?.street).

Spines11 | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Looking for feedback on my spare time project, Booklends.com

In Chrome, on your sign up and log in pages, the https has a red slash through it warning that the page contains unencrypted resources.

Spines11 | 15 years ago | on: Show HN: CaptainObvio.us - a place to share ideas

The background image is causing scrolling lag in Chrome. I turned the background image off and it fixed the problem.

Spines11 | 15 years ago | on: What if this is as good as it gets?

Hopefully, in time, people would end up just installing Firefox or Chrome.

Spines11 | 15 years ago | on: Apple takes 30%, Amazon took 70%

Thirty percent may be okay for books, but companies selling music like Rhapsody probably don't even have profit margins of thirty percent.