sammcd's comments

sammcd | 12 years ago | on: Yale students made a better version of its course catalog. Yale shut it down

Did the same thing at my college. We crawled their course catalog. They blocked our IP.

Our big addition was being able to sort classes by time and day, the university ended up adding that feature, so I guess we got what we wanted?

sammcd | 13 years ago | on: Sparrow acquired by Google

Great software for half off doesn't seem like a scam to me. The app still works.

sammcd | 13 years ago | on: Cheddar

Congrats on launching Sam!

sammcd | 14 years ago | on: Why a career in computer programming sucks (2007)

Good point :) To be fair I started writing code much younger, but I still chose a bad date.

I still think my main point is valid.

sammcd | 14 years ago | on: Why a career in computer programming sucks (2007)

I have trouble thinking this 60 year old programmer exists. There were only 2000 computers in existence in 1960. Today a 60 year old programmer that spent a career in computer science is a very small group of people.

I'm going to wait and see how this really turns out.

sammcd | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: My iPad Hacker News Client, Hacker News Paper

Thanks a lot!

sammcd | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: My iPad Hacker News Client, Hacker News Paper

Currently it is because of the page view controller, but I'm thinking about dropping that in the future. I'll definitely being iOS 5 only at that point.

sammcd | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: My iPad Hacker News Client, Hacker News Paper

I simply went to http://www.dafont.com/ and searched until I found a font I liked, thats all that happened here.

sammcd | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: My iPad Hacker News Client, Hacker News Paper

This list is one of the first list that seems to really coincide with the things that bother me about the app.

I do like the idea of making the left side tappable, and I really do want to change my animation and hope to get time to fix that soon.

Just so you know when viewing a story you can tap the headline to go back. This feature was mostly added for myself, I hope to get a designer to design me something that communicates returning to the front page better than my current methods.

I can tell you've done some iOS work cause you can see some of the shortcuts I took to ship this on time. I hope to fix these soon :)

sammcd | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: My iPad Hacker News Client, Hacker News Paper

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sammcd | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: My iPad Hacker News Client, Hacker News Paper

Feel free to email me at [email protected] if you would like to discuss this more.

I just want to say that I did not use your app as a source at all when designing my app, but I did use newspapers.

sammcd | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: My iPad Hacker News Client, Hacker News Paper

Thanks a lot for your feedback.

Like I've already commented its great to hear from you and see which of the features I think are important are also important to people who have tried the app.

sammcd | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: My iPad Hacker News Client, Hacker News Paper

Thanks a lot!

sammcd | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: My iPad Hacker News Client, Hacker News Paper

Thanks for the feedback.

In the next version I will definitely try to do something to make it look a little cleaner.

sammcd | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: My iPad Hacker News Client, Hacker News Paper

Thanks a lot for your feedback!

The gestures, better fonts, and buttons are three things that are already high on my list to fix, but its really good to hear it from someone else. Be looking for an update shortly.

sammcd | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: My iPad Hacker News Client, Hacker News Paper

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sammcd | 14 years ago | on: If you want to get rich, stop being a fucking joker

I was a huge fan of the thesis, but as I kept reading the situation seemed very familiar. Very familiar to the multiple times I have worked for a non technical guy that really just doesn't have a clue.

I was really not a fan of the part where he told his guys not to make excuses, but then made a very large excuse for himself.

If I would have read only the first few paragraphs I would have been a huge fan of this article.

sammcd | 14 years ago | on: Maxing out your Dropbox referrals (how I got 16GB for less than $10)

I bet the key difference here is that now people are much more likely to use google specifically to find dropbox.

sammcd | 14 years ago | on: Stripe: instant payment processing for developers

I've been turned down a few times for merchant accounts. The company I started in college got turned down, and we ended up using paypal.

sammcd | 14 years ago | on: Apple to Match $10K in Charitable Contributions Per Employee

I bet they end up spending a lot less than 10k per employee with the current plan. The current plan means that people who are already donating, the people who would care about this 10K get it, and Apple saves money on the people who don't care.