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ddedden | 11 years ago | on: How Victorian London Almost Ended Up with a Roman Sewer

I just heard on the radio this morning that the excavators for the expanded London Underground are finding incredible artifacts while digging the new tunnels. Fascinating stuff!

http://www.npr.org/2014/12/23/372623549/we-go-underground-to...

ddedden | 12 years ago | on: Steam Machine Teardown

Agreed.

I'd guess that the wired version is just for the beta. When it's released, I'm sure a wireless option will be available.

ddedden | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm 15, won a grant to develop a suicide prevention app, what next?

A front end developer is someone that builds the interface. Designers are becoming programmers more and more nowadays, but it used to be that the designer drew out an interface and the developer built it.

Here's a good article about it, as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_and_back_ends

ddedden | 12 years ago | on: Google Play Music on the App Store

You have to hit the "pin" icon on the playlist, I believe.

ddedden | 12 years ago | on: Google SEO Starter Guide [pdf]

This is a good start, but the guide is actually really old - the copyright is from 2010.

Some of this stuff is no longer valid.

ddedden | 12 years ago | on: Andrew Kim: Minimal to the max

I'm a big fan of Kim's concept work and read his blog regularly, as I think that his insight and designs are top notch.

That said, it'll be very interesting to see how his talent will be used. I wonder if it will just be industrial/hardware design or if he'll be designing UI's. I think that he's better suited for the former.

ddedden | 12 years ago | on: Google Launches The Chromecast To Bring Chrome To The Living Room

They just added it in the last hour or so.

ddedden | 12 years ago | on: $99 Parallella supercomputing boards start shipping

Technically you could just run a standard LAMP stack since it's running an ARM-compatible version of Ubuntu. It just won't take advantage of the multiple processors.

ddedden | 12 years ago | on: The Get-Rid-Of-Crap-Every-Month Club

I think that this is a great idea and it kind of reminds me of http://usesold.com/ with an expanded scope. I'm constantly packing up things into bags for AMVETS, but having a box sent to me that automatically gets picked up would be awesome.

ddedden | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad

Ah, got it. Looks great! Looking forward to the next version update.

ddedden | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad

This looks pretty sweet!

Just one question:

Was there any particular reason for the limiting of color schemes? Why not just show the user a color wheel and let them choose whatever they want?

ddedden | 13 years ago | on: Google Glass Engineer Wanted

This sounds pretty awesome.

One quick correction: you should probably change the URL on the image, as hall.com/jobs doesn't resolve properly.

ddedden | 13 years ago | on: A Lesson Learned as a Technical Founder: Sell First, Build Later

While I agree that you should validate your ideas before spending copious amounts of time programming, I don't think that you should sell people on an imaginary product. Unless you already have an established reputation, it's highly doubtful that people will pre-order something on mere talk alone.

I think that it's a better idea to stick with the MVP (minimum viable product) model and iterate rather than try to figure out revenue and customers right off the bat.