amiheines's comments

A youtube link? Why? I was surprised of the sound and volume. Didn't even look at the website before clicking. Quickly hit the back button, I like reading text, not being talked to by a voice post

This reminds me of an old post with a dice rolling machine for a gaming site capable of producing 1.3 million dice rolls per day, http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic

Or maybe it masks the misery of going to work? ;)

3 books I read a couple of decades ago, they were talking about technology of a decade before that and felt outdated but were really helpful in raising my powers as a developer: 1. About face 2. Writing solid code 3. Code complete I still recommend them to young developers and bought a paper copy of them for myself. The ones I read were left at the company I worked at at the time. I had an expenses account and most of my expenses there were on books.

The OP says it's new in version 7.3 I also wish it was done earlier since I found myself trying to use commands like '5j' and giving up a long time ago.

Interesting, Seems like the Haskel benefits but implemented in mortal technologies.

Nice and fresh idea about API design, thank you fenniak. You almost answered my questions as they poped in my head, especially about DRY!

I got your version up and ready for A/B testing today!

Can you please submit the site in a new post to HN? I'm too new here and don't want to post my own web site here.

I promise to write a blog post on the results, this will be fun! Perhaps we can finally debunk one rule about writing sales letters.

lol, yes, they do. I feel sometimes like big brother since I set up the web site to send me an email whenever someone buys and activates a dog tag. I get to see some funny dog pages where people display pictures of their dog and add some funny message to the page instead of the default message I provide.

Most of them are boring - people just fill in the form and are satisfied with the basic template which says something like:

Hello, If you're reading this, I'm probably lost. My name is <dog's name here> My owner's name is <owner's name> Please call them at <owner's cell phone> or send them a message <owner's email> Thanks!

The owner of the dog gets an email telling him someone scanned the qr code on its collar and a GPS location on a map (works only if the good soul that found the dog allows sharing of location data)

Virtual hug to you!

This is a great version of the ad, thank you thank you thank you!

Only rule violated in this version is that it refers too much to ME and too little to YOU the reader. I thought it's best to talk about 'what's in it for me' as the reader tends to be less interested in what I accomplished and more anout himself.

I will definitely use A/B testing using a version of the page based on your suggestion.

Thanks beobab, this is very encouraging. I will try and improve the button and of course I will fix the typo.

Now I should go back and continue work on that book.

Thanks for the kind words, I want to reduce the anxiety for programmers testing the waters of physical products. I believe this can be a very productive and creative twist on things. I am in the process of spinning off some new physical products based on my initial business. It is a lot of fun and I keep it low risk.

Hi all, I'm writing an eBook and wanted your feedback regarding this web page which I put out to tell about the upcoming book. What do you think about it? Do you strongly dislike it? Let me know! Thanks, Ami