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kiriappeee | 14 years ago | on: The Pure CSS3 Content Slider

Beautiful work. I felt the jolt upon entering was a little unnecessary but still. Just gorgeous work. Downloaded source. Thanks :)

kiriappeee | 14 years ago | on: TouchFire: Finally a real keyboard for the iPad

I'm on Android and I've been in the testing phase of Swype for a very very long time. Swype's major failing is the adding of unusual words. It's not built for real touch typing even though they added that feature in. Also I've given it a very good go since I use my android device for blogging as well and while swype performs remarkably well in portrait mode it feels different in landscape. the distance your single finger has to travel as opposed to being able to use all ten fingers to touch type like you would on a standard keyboard makes touch typing feel like the more efficient method here.

Thus I think swype for phones is fanstastic.. Swype for tablets is great if for some reason you can just use one hand.. But both hands hand touch typing works the best on a tablet imo. And this particular invention enhances that effect a lot.

kiriappeee | 14 years ago | on: The verge 404 page: Hints of what'll be covered?

Unforunately the 404 page itself is protected but the rss.xml request leads you to the 404 page where you can find the categories. Can anyone else do some probing in? I tried using curl to bypass stuff but it kept redirecting me to the password redirect url

kiriappeee | 14 years ago | on: Liveblogging from Refresh Colombo July: Sri Lanka's tech meetup

Hey there everyone. The article says most of it but as for why I decided to share this news with you is because I want to get maximum exposure for an effort like this. It's organised by three guys mainly who get little recognition so I thought why not get HN involved with it too. So here's my invitation to you guys to join the discussion.

kiriappeee | 14 years ago | on: Liveblogging from Refresh Colombo June: Sri Lanka's tech meetup

Hey there everyone. The article says most of it but as for why I decided to share this news with you is because I want to get maximum exposure for an effort like this. It's organised by three guys mainly who get little recognition so I thought why not get HN involved with it too. So here's my invitation to you guys to join the discussion. I'll be taking questions and passing it on to the three speakers in their qa sessions. The answers will be sent back. Hope to see you in about 15 minutes

kiriappeee | 15 years ago | on: Show HN: my 1-week project - Moodlogger

The dev blog entry was definitely one of the best I've read in a while on lessons learnt from a project. This line in particular,

The main idea was: “Stop worrying about if there’s something better. If you can do it right now then just go with that.”.

Says it all. That's a difficult wall to break past and I've struggled and I'm still struggling with it for my Android app. And I don't even have an app review to pass.... shame on me for not having any app out there. Thanks a lot for sharing this. The dev article was definitely an inspiration. Ah well. Good luck with the future run of this. You are right. This database does have a huge amount of potential in it so it'll be interesting to see where this goes :).

kiriappeee | 15 years ago | on: Google's 'new' design: More than meets the eye

Just so people know. Just predicting what this is is not my only intention. I keep seeing members of the tech community dumping nearly every new idea or iteration the moment they first see it and I think as people who call themselves tech enthusiasts that's a real dumb thing to do. You can't progress without change, you can't change without trying and trying means experiments.

Being part of the tech world means being part of the fastest evolving community and the one that gives room for all further innovation in nearly every other sector.

My biggest purpose in doing this is to try and show that given an apparent lemon, how you can try and make lemonade out of it, or rather how to try and build up on what's available for you rather than always wanting to stay in one's comfort zone.

One point about arranging results. Google power users only. And Google would have an algorithm being modified to suit your interests. If crowd sourcing doesn't work, if friend recommendations don't work because of the noise then your obvious best choice would be to have an algorithm work the way the user wants it to work. And how do you do that if the user can't tell what he/she wants. Hence the rearranging of results which is the user saying "No Google, I kind of like official pages more than blog posts" (or vice versa).

PS - Thanks a lot to the great HN community which sent the traffic soaring through my blog. I'm trying to score a position as a professional tech blogger eventually and this sort of stuff gives me a lot of motivation to keep at it.

- Dreams are meant to be lived.

kiriappeee | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which android handset you use?

HTC desire. Extra advice. eBay. Extra piece of advice. Buy a nexus one. Or galaxy s. The latter might be too expensive even on eBay but look hard. You might be surprised. I got my desire last year June (i think) for 400 dollars

kiriappeee | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What hours would you work on a side business?

Btw I did forget to say. That routine that you currently have is really awesome! Love the whole going into BnN to read for a bit or just walking across to take in a movie. Used to do things like that during Degree and it worked really well for me

kiriappeee | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What hours would you work on a side business?

Well a supportive wife is a little different. But a relationship where your communication is mostly after work hours since you aren't living together yet could get strained if not managed correctly. I'm quite serious about this question because there is a very strong possibility of it happening to not just me but a few others as well soon. So any suggestions? Because if it is a road of no compromise, one or the other, I'd have to take the relationship I guess. But I would honestly prefer both.

kiriappeee | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What hours would you work on a side business?

I'm just curious. This structure is pretty easy to follow if you are really passionate about what you do.. but just asking if you happen to be in a relationship like being engaged would you have any idea how to give time to everything? Or is that where the line gets drawn? (No not applicable to me... yet..)

kiriappeee | 15 years ago | on: Show HN: Social Drop

Well I'm curious as to how the idea came about. Way I see it I think you may have gotten the idea by looking at conversations that might tend to flow on a forum like warez bb. But actual downloading for most people would work like this. Person sees link. Waits for 30 seconds for it to be available and then sets it to download and continues with whatever they might be supposed to be doing.

So here come the questions 1) are you solving a problem? Or is this a novel idea you think might be cool? If it's the former then what is the problem? If it is the latter the next question will be even more relevant 2) typical file share downloads won't last more than 15 minutes. Minimum a minute. Average somewhere around 4 minutes. Why would people want to chat for that time? 3) given that people set stuff to download and move along you have to be adding value to what peoples time if you expect them to devote time to chatting instead. What's the value you add?

I will never shoot down an idea outright so go ahead and answer without worrying that I'll cream over you. But you do need to be able to answer those questions to anyone to say why your idea is actually something that would be worth using.

Cheers. More questions after your answers :)

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