maxko87
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13 years ago
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on: MIT's Infinite Size CNC Router
This is awesome! But in this case, instead of introducing the human element, wouldn't it be (relatively) easy to make the entire apparatus self-driving and programmable? As in, mount this thing on a Roomba-like robot and give it a coarse driving path?
maxko87
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13 years ago
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on: ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
This is a very convenient service for the users, but it might raise some issues if any of these terms are ever argued in court. Defending that you read the ToS;DR and not the terms of service might not hold much water.
maxko87
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13 years ago
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on: Make Your Users Do the Work
I think that the pattern of making software as easy to use as possible refers to the amount of work users need to put in _before_ they actually start doing what the product is intended for (e.g. entering personal information). However, the users should definitely be doing work when it comes to the content of the product, as the article states. I think that, for example, the amount of work people put into uploading and commenting on photos on Facebook was part of the reason the switch to Google+ wasn't as big as anticipated -- users had too much of an investment in FB already.
maxko87
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13 years ago
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on: Show HN: Invitation Engine for Facebook Apps
I don't know, I am a college student and I find myself getting the most event invitations from Facebook (that being said, it might change drastically in a work environment).
Either way, awesome work Tony & co!
maxko87
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13 years ago
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on: From itch to scratched: Google Hangout permalink
Pretty strange that this needs to have a workaround, though, as this would make hangouts much easier to join and get people into G+ as a whole. And if the workaround is this easy, it can't be that hard for Google to incorporate this as a legitimate feature.
maxko87
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13 years ago
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on: Ouya Breaks Kickstarter Records
Just bought one. The technology listed makes it totally worth the money alone. Not to mention that if this thing has as many developers making (partially free) games for it as does the Android market now, it seems like this won't be outdated for quite a while.
maxko87
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13 years ago
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on: Uber’s pressure works, as DC councilmember drops the Minimum Fare plan
This seems to be a trend in recent political workings -- lawmaker introduces naive and ignorant piece of legislation to support some part of his/her constituency, faces enormous online backlash, quietly backs off. For some reason these legislators still get reelected, though.
maxko87
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13 years ago
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on: Investing in GitHub
maxko87
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13 years ago
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on: Github Raises $100 Million
maxko87
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13 years ago
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on: Introducing BitTorrent Torque
This is a great move to make BT more mainstream and remove the boilerplate cost of installing a client, etc.
maxko87
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13 years ago
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on: Berners-Lee: World Finally Realizes The Web Belongs To No One
I'm surprised the article makes no mention of the semantic web, a brain-child of his that he's been promoting and working on almost exclusively for the past several years. It would be the solution to the "closed-data" problem that the article talks about.
maxko87
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13 years ago
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on: Re-thinking music with ZIIBRA
Awesome tool. Kickstarter has proven that a crowd sourced model like this can work, and it's good that the model is being specialized into certain niches like this (see indiegogo). I'm sure that you will have success with it.
As for critique, I can't tell at all what the big colorful title says. It's cool that you are targeting two different audiences (bands and fans), but consolidate your two mission statements on the front page -- they seem a bit redundant (maybe make each shorter and more pointed?) I would also go into some more specifics on the "How it Works" page, for example by including some details from the video (if somebody does not want to watch).
Good luck!
maxko87
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13 years ago
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on: EA preparing to become “100 percent digital company”
Good, especially considering the trend in notebooks to not even ship with DVD drives anymore..
maxko87
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13 years ago
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on: Amazing - People tweet pictures of their credit cards
Since this is already an automated account that finds all these tweets, instead of just retweeting for publicity/humor's sake, they should add a sentence telling each of the victims why this is bad. At least make sure they themselves don't make that mistake again.
maxko87
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13 years ago
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on: Paypal Redesigned
Wasn't this on here a few weeks ago?
Anyways, PayPal has been due for an update for a couple years now. As for why it doesn't change when you log in, the main reason PayPal's doing this is to compete with startupy new companies like Square and Stripe in terms of new customer acquisitions. Those new customers won't leave PayPal after tying in their bank accounts, etc., so PayPal isn't as worried about retaining them.
maxko87
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13 years ago
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on: I've made a little mashup for browsing reddit. Give it a try
The style is a good change of pace from reddit, but I think RES (
http://redditenhancementsuite.com/) can pretty replicate the functionality (infinite scrolling, showing top comments, etc.) Nice work though.
maxko87
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13 years ago
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on: Show HN: FeelHN - Sentiment analysis for HN comments [Stripe hackathon project]
We used an open source sentiment analysis API.
maxko87
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13 years ago
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on: Show HN: FeelHN - Sentiment analysis for HN comments [Stripe hackathon project]
We didn't want to conflict with the graying of downvoted comments. :)
maxko87
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13 years ago
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on: Facebook Quietly Releases ‘Find Friends Nearby,’ Then Quietly Pulls It
Not surprising -- it came out of a hackathon project, didn't have much potential for actual growth, but Facebook just wanted to showcase one of the cooler projects for a day.
maxko87
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13 years ago
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on: Google: We're One Of The World's Largest Hardware Makers
This, along with rising popularity of Chromebooks, makes Google's future seem like a cenrtralized data store/processor. Kind of an eerie thought.
