focuser's comments

focuser | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Automating Customer Interviews?

It's indeed wrong to try to trick people. But the real question is that if you already know that it's a robot, are you still be willing to talk to it? What if the robot sounds like this: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/linton-ye/episodes/C...

focuser | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Automating Customer Interviews?

thanks for the feedback. Yeah I agree. However, imagine the AI becomes advanced enough to do it properly, would you still talk to it as a customer? My immediate thought is that I wouldn't because I know it's a bot. But on a second thought, the line would perhaps blur if the conversation is realistic enough.

focuser | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Bored at Home” React Challenge

I hope you like the name of this challenge. :)

In all seriousness, I want to do my little part to help people feel better in the difficult times right now. That'll help me feel better too.

focuser | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Data Grid for Framer

Join the webinar to learn more about it: https://ti.to/learnreact/data-grid

focuser | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: React+Framer Summer Challenge V2

I'm thrilled to launch React+Framer Challenge V2! It's a one-month workshop starting next Monday August 12th. The registration is open right now until the end of 11th.

If you missed Challenge V1, this is a great opportunity to catch up. By definition V2 is better than V1 -- more polished videos, better pace, better structure, a great timeframe that motivates you to learn more, and cool prizes. And you still have the chance to learn for free!

Here's what Kevin, a V1 challenger, has to say:

"I’ve seriously learned 10x more in the last 4 weeks than in the last 8 months trying to learn Framer on my own. " - Kevin Cannon, Product Designer at Pitch

Also, you probably want to check out some prototypes built by V1 challengers: https://learnreact.design/prototyping-with-react-framer/show...

focuser | 6 years ago | on: Twitter was down

yup, What's worse than releasing a product on twitter and found it down a few minutes later...

focuser | 8 years ago | on: Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers are pulling out

React Native has been updated to MIT too: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/LICENSE

focuser | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

A habit of checking HN every 20 minutes. :)

focuser | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Spaced Repetition System for iOS

I wonder if there's a way to provide custom content? Is there an API or something?

focuser | 12 years ago | on: Diary of a programmer with no clue about marketing

looks great! Love the simplicity of the landing page too. Though I'm a little unsure why you have the reddit page in your video? Did you mean that with your tool, you'd save lots of time (to waste?). I personally find it distracting and misleading.

focuser | 13 years ago | on: How to Prototype an App in 1 hour: meet POP

You may want to check out this: http://jimulabs.com/

focuser | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: how do you demo apps running on an actual phone in presentations?

yeah, but that's still different, especially when you want to show something like shaking the phone, or switching devices.

focuser | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: how do you demo apps running on an actual phone in presentations?

To give a realistic impression, I wanted to show my fingers too, not just the device screen. One other way I could think of is to use two phones, one for running the app to demo, the other shooting the video and projecting it via the HDMI cable... But it's a bit difficult to setup - switching projector cables is often quite painful.

The problem with my original approach is that I couldn't find a good webcam that records videos as well as the phone.

focuser | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: does pay per use pricing method works?

I'm investigating this too -- in fact I almost post the same question here until I found your post.

One of the concerns I have is that this kind of pricing method may be a lot more complicated to design and implement. Also it may confuse customers if you have a huge feature list rather than 3 simple plans for them to choose.

focuser | 13 years ago | on: Xiki: A shell console with GUI features.

The Screencasts page seems broken in Chrome?

update: works in Safari though.

focuser | 13 years ago | on: Go native, HTML5 is going to lag for a while

In a sense, PhoneGap apps are actually NOT Web apps, they are native apps built using Web technologies.

focuser | 13 years ago | on: WebOS legacy lives on as next-generation Enyo framework exits beta

is it me or the sample apps feel quite sluggish on the nexus 7?

focuser | 13 years ago | on: How We Went From 1M To 100M Users In 6 Months

Growing from 0 to 1M users is probably harder than from 1M to 100M.

focuser | 13 years ago | on: What the ..., Google stole my ideas?

didn't mean to post this as a troll. Just wanted to show my exact feeling at that point.

But again, it's possible too that they might have come up with these features coincidentally. And I agree code templates are not a new idea.

What I have really learned from this situation is to see these things positively. Good ideas are just a good start. What really makes the difference is the underlying execution and the vision behind.