Thomaschaaf
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14 years ago
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on: FourSquare switches from Google Maps to Open Street Map
Making the GMaps Api is the best thing that could have happened for Open Street Map and probably Google Maps in a while. The OSM Map Data is good enough for most. In turn since more sites are going away from GMaps it gets more popular and the data gets better. Google will probably integrate OSMs Data back into Gmaps. Thus sooner or later Google won't need to pay licenseing fees to the card guys. Because their own data (from Google Streetview) + OSMs data will be enough.
Thomaschaaf
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14 years ago
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on: Kim Dotcom’s first TV interview: ‘I’m no piracy king’
Can someone please provide a mirror? It's interessting that I looked at the commercial and then expected the clip to load in a timely fashion. And because I can not do it, I will probably not watch that clip to the end.
Thomaschaaf
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14 years ago
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on: Windows Phone 7.5 update lowers system requirements
I think this is a US problem. I paid full price for my phone (500€) and have a 6€ dataplan per month, which includes 300 Mb - after that it's 56 kb/s. This is great for most people that just want to do read some news, check facebook and download an app or two. I can pay 10 € for 1 Gb. A phone at 200€ + 6 € per month is something I could get my parents.
Thomaschaaf
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14 years ago
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on: Open Web Device
This seems a lot like a webOS with Gecko instead of webkit. This seems interessting as I hope the projects open webOS are building are going to be on which both plattforms can build on.
Thomaschaaf
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14 years ago
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on: Apple should offer the opportunity to merge two iPads (with mockups)
No I personally don't. For one why try to create a laptop with 2 iPads? A 500 dollar keyboard seems crazy if you look at it like that.
Also mimicking old things like a book with 2 screens does not make sense in my opinion - waste of resources?
Thomaschaaf
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14 years ago
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on: Usabilla Discover launches and is much more than “Pinterest for designers”
Pretty awesome collection.
One thing I dislike is the fact, that the same stories are repeated over and over. Is there a reason for this?
Thomaschaaf
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14 years ago
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on: HTML5 and DRM
So your startup will basically do what videojs.com (
http://videojs.com/) does + DRM? I guess it could work but maybe very easy to duplicate. At least from how I understand your approach.
P.S.: Bing Cache works
Thomaschaaf
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14 years ago
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on: HTML5 and DRM
Website is down. No Google Cache.
Thomaschaaf
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14 years ago
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on: Introducing (Unofficial) GitHub Buttons
I love that the website looks like a face.
The eyes are the watch and fork buttons, the nose is the download on github and it has a little mustache being the bottom watch and fork buttons. Also the hair seems to be the "GitHub Buttons"-Text. Hopefully that's not just me :D
Thomaschaaf
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14 years ago
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on: New AWS region: US West (Oregon)
Why put two regions so close to one another? I am really confused. Why not do something in East Europe or central europe for countries like italy, germany and maybe even russia.
Thomaschaaf
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14 years ago
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on: Twitter Bootstrap v1.4.0 Released
Sadly there is not change log. I just scrolled through the doc and could not find any features. All this seems to be from 1.3.0 is bug fixes which make it a patch? Please correct me if I'm wrong and I missed something awesome ;)
Thomaschaaf
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14 years ago
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on: Color Identification System (for the color blind)
I was hoping for a site where I could finally enter a hex code or something and find out what color it is. I find it very hard to differ dark blue and purple and dark yellows and bright greens.
Thomaschaaf
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14 years ago
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on: IPhone 4S with iPhone 4 design, leaked by iTunes
Maybe Apple is segmenting iPhones into the cheaper and the more expensive version being iPhone 4S and iPhone 5. The iPhone 4S will be enough for most and may feature less space for music and apps (8GB) and the iPhone 5 will be the bigger devices (16, 32 & 64 GB).
Thomaschaaf
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14 years ago
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on: Ask HN: When would you use cloud based hosting and when dedicated hosting?
I my opinion you choose cloud if you have a high variance of user activity. Need 30 servers at day and 1 at night? Then Cloud is correct for you. Always need 4 servers? Then dedicated servers are probably best. Need servers with great ping and are in Europe and not England? Then use dedicated servers in the country where you are at or most of your customers are. But the best is a mixed setup if you can do that. Rent the number of servers you always need (3 for example) and for spikes start up the cloud with one or two more servers if you really need them for an hour.
Thomaschaaf
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14 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Thoughts on the new FB layout?
Would you guys mind uploading a couple screenshots? I don't have the new design.
Thomaschaaf
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14 years ago
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on: Show HN: One-Stop inbox for customer communication.
15 € per user is the current plan. But we'll add it :) Thank you! How you don't see the trees if you live in a forrest.. (German saying)
Thomaschaaf
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15 years ago
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on: IP Geolocation API
When loading the IPLocator it should auto fill the form with my ip. This would help try the service :)
Thomaschaaf
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15 years ago
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on: What is the use of Url shortners?
Thomaschaaf
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15 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Who wants the .app TLD
I work a lot with non technical people. The only domain endings they know is .com and our country specific .de (Germany) some may know .net but often times they will try to enter .de or .com first. For many users a .com at the end is treated the sameway a www. is at the beginning. I don't think you without a .com domain you can reach a big portion of the internet.
Thomaschaaf
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15 years ago
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on: Here come Ads on Google Maps (API)
There are two free alternatives that come to mind. Cloudmade.com and Yahoo Maps!
