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ideamonk | 7 years ago | on: 75% of med students are on antidepressants, stimulants, or both? (2017)

Interesting opinions, you might enjoy testing the strong-hold in winds of an anti-depressant related discussion - https://player.fm/series/philosophy-for-our-times/e123-minds...

ideamonk | 7 years ago | on: Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘restructures’ the company

SpaceX has admirably ambitious goals. While cheering/hating is of negligible value, it doesn't hurt to broaden one's view about NewSpace.

Ref: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-ffc-12-in_elon_we_trust

ideamonk | 9 years ago | on: HyperNormalisation (2016) [video]

From history - KGB propagandist Yuri Bezmenov talks about normalisation in context of subversion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnpCqsXE8g (1983, LA)

ideamonk | 9 years ago | on: NSTouchBar API Reference

TouchBar will play nice with digital audio workstations like Logic Pro / Live, etc. I'll be happy to record pitch/mod/any VST param automations on a touch strip.

DJ-ing apps could show up cue points and let you trigger them.

While fullscreen mode on macOS advocated distraction-free focus, TouchBar takes a step backwards.

ideamonk | 10 years ago | on: Segway robot

I'm a frontend+design guy, I tend to do it time to time.

ideamonk | 10 years ago | on: Segway robot

OT: they forgot to setup their meta tags properly. The description is set to "Responsive Minimal Bootstrap Theme"

ideamonk | 10 years ago | on: Synth Secrets (1999–2004)

You may also find this useful - "Practical Synthesis for Electronic Music" - http://www.analogindustries.com/b1764/

ideamonk | 13 years ago | on: Photoshop vs CSS

Pixel-by-pixel is an abuse indeed, sizes are huge, generation easy. It's like generated ascii art vs hand-made thoughtful pieces of work.

I like to rebound some dribbble shots with css3 http://dribbble.com/ideamonk/projects/97353-Pure-CSS3

I enjoy two aspects of this -

1. Figuring out what the overall is composed of by looking hard

2. Rendering with limited power available in CSS (no photoshop ninja here)

And sometimes I animate them too - http://heldfree.com/play/dropbox/ (best viewed in Safari)

With these I've also found a few subtle differences between how Chrome and Safari render translucent gradients, large shadows, etc.

This is a somewhat rewarding but an entertaining thing to do :)

ideamonk | 13 years ago | on: Bootstrap 3.0 Upcoming changes

On significantly large projects, the compass compiler can take a lot more time than lessc. Eg. Sencha Touch's sass based styling.

ideamonk | 13 years ago | on: Things I Learned From Founding Technology Companies

I just printed a super-mini version of 'one thing' for my home office - http://i.imgur.com/3oa6a.jpg (single founder edition) . Grab original here - http://heldfree.com/one-thing.png

The text shape can also easily be wrapped over a tall whiskey bottle :)

ideamonk | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is easier to learn iPhone development or Android development?

iOS can seem vast. If you know Ruby, http://rubymotion-tutorial.com is a must see. I'm finding the ecosystem around Rubymotion to be more productive.

ideamonk | 13 years ago | on: $6,000+ of app design ebook sales today

Congrats! I love it when money making geeks share revenue numbers.

ideamonk | 13 years ago | on: Tomorrow Theme

Monokai is popular choice for many initially, it looks good but hurts eyes. Solarized on the other hand seems to lack contrasts at times.

After spending a great amount of time in 'Merbivore Soft', then 'Made of Code' last year, I've fallen in love with 'Tomorrow' - ST2 & XCode. Mostly for the vibrant colors and pleasant contrast. Clojure too looks very nice in this.

Coal Graal is another nice theme - http://goo.gl/fH9rP http://goo.gl/4nCHk

ideamonk | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are there any freelance "problem solvers" out there?

If it's related to data crunching / classification / recommendation / ml , do take a look at http://kaggle.com

ideamonk | 13 years ago | on: I did the scariest thing I can imagine: I resigned

Good luck! Doing contract work as a web/app developer brings in good money (depending on what your expenses are), and also leaves free time (depending on what you charge hourly).

I'm trying the same since July. One of the important lessons I learnt on the way - be super-serious about organising your time. July & half of August flew away in a jiffy as I was trying to do/learn too many (mostly new) things at the same time. I'm trying to form habits around the way I spend time, not letting new ideas distract me on a daily basis.

You've been working in a jungle of roles for 8 years, bet that bit wont be hard. Good luck again :)

ideamonk | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

http://instasync.me - downloads all your instagram photos - about $200 every month. - expecting it to rise (pricing changes)

Looking at a few longer lists below, I think I've just started!

ideamonk | 13 years ago | on: Bodshots - Say hello to Instagram for fitness freaks & body builders

For those impatiently interested in something like this, checkout - http://bodylog.com/

ideamonk | 13 years ago | on: Bodshots - Say hello to Instagram for fitness freaks & body builders

We haven't released to public yet, still counting sign-ups.

ideamonk | 13 years ago | on: Bodshots - Say hello to Instagram for fitness freaks & body builders

Yet to launch, you should hit 'Sign me up' towards end of the page at http://bodshots.herokuapp.com/ and we'll let you know when we do. We're considering a name change as 'bodshots' really comes bad in google search (specially image search) :P

ideamonk | 13 years ago | on: First employee or co-founder?

"Either I'm a cofounder, or I'm a freelancer" - +1 . I've started following this recently, it really keeps things simple and weeds off any chances of misbalance between 'your perception about your role' and 'their perception of your role' in the company.