strick's comments

strick | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you track data about your life? Has it helped or led to insights?

strick | 11 years ago | on: Announcing Free Incoming SMS For All

I think the tabbed navigation on: https://www.plivo.com/pricing/ is going to confuse some users. Some people will never see the SMS pricing even though they are looking for it. Banner blindness is a real problem and applies not only to ads but to navigational stuff as well.

strick | 11 years ago | on: Perfect MacBook Pro specs for developers?

If you are the type to have remorse when a new model is introduced just after you buy, you may want to wait a week or so. The MacBook Pro is due for an upgrade pretty much any day now: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Retina_MacBook_Pro

strick | 11 years ago | on: Cassini Celebrates a Decade in Orbit Around Saturn

Great way to celebrate is to give this another listen: Carolyn Porco: This is Saturn http://www.ted.com/talks/carolyn_porco_flies_us_to_saturn

I haven't heard it myself for years but still think of it often. It is one of the most inspiring things I have ever heard.

strick | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Hitting a wall with Twitter

Have you reached out to your customers yet? @ev has obvious ties and Tim Ferriss was an early investor.

strick | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Help me validate my idea

I'd recommend running this as a simple twitter account to test the concept. Reach out to people who follow the shows you are interested in. Tweet at a scheduled interval. If they don't follow it is unlikely the app would get traction. If the followers didn't grow organically once you had a core group of followers I would see that as a bad sign.

One more thought: if there was demonstrated growth and interest, you could use the twitter account to promote the app once it was released.

strick | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: What makes a good puzzle?

Randall Munroe of XKCD talks about a great puzzle at the end of this 10 min video:

https://www.ted.com/talks/randall_munroe_comics_that_ask_wha...

strick | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: $500k cash – what to do with it?

Simplest: 100% VTSMX

Conservative: 60% VTSMX, 40% VBMFX

I would do: 50% VTSMX, 30% VBMFX, 15% Lending Club, 5% YCombinator funds on fundersclub or wefunder.com (split over next 4 summer and 4 winter classes)

This is a great site: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/

strick | 12 years ago | on: Hoist – Fast API based web development

Any thoughts about forking Angular and building in Hoist support to make an officially supported Angular/Hoist client side library?

strick | 12 years ago | on: Carousel – Gallery from Dropbox for photos and videos

No plans to tackle this at the moment, but looks like they have a REST api. Shoot me an email (check my profile) and I'll let you know if I pursue.

strick | 12 years ago | on: Carousel – Gallery from Dropbox for photos and videos

If you are interested in Carousel you might also be interested in a service I built and am currently beta testing:

http://www.yearloop.com/

Each day it sends me an email with pictures from 1 yr ago, 2 yrs ago, etc. It is also powered by Dropbox.

strick | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: First job in IT, what best practices should I get in to?

OK. But still don't throw that former employee under the bus. Your attitude should always remain 'there is room for improvement' and not 'this sucks'.

One thing to keep in mind is that technology at almost every company you will ever work for will be held together with some combination of duct tape and bailing wire. I have seen tables with no normalization whatsoever that support tens of millions of dollars of revenue. They key factor with IT is that it needs to work. And since these things tend to grow organically, almost none of them are optimized.

strick | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: First job in IT, what best practices should I get in to?

One best practice is to RESPECT the people who built the systems that are already in place. Think about it, they were able to achieve so much financial success that they were able to hire the best and brightest: YOU

So, respectfully implement the obvious stuff like version control, backups, etc and leave all of the 'can you believe how crappy this is' attitude at home. I'm extrapolating a bit from your 'horrendously designed' and 'zero knowledge' comments. Those people probably still work there, or are thought of fondly by the people who remain!

strick | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: do you have any mobile app ideas?

Could you post an email or twitter handle in your profile? Or share it here?

strick | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What side projects are you working on?

http://www.yearloop.com/

Each day it sends me an email with pictures from 1 yr ago, 2 yrs ago, etc. It is powered by Dropbox. Beta testing now if you want to join in for free!

strick | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: CoinNotify Alerts – Bitcoin price digest emails

Hey just signed up for free weekly. Cool idea! First - you did get classified as spam in my gmail. I feel for you because I recently launched something small, carefully completed my SPF and DomainKeys DNS stuff in Mailgun, and ended up in the same exact boat. Gmail SPAM folder. Maybe you and I should call Gmail's phone support number to discuss with them. Hahahaha.

Second - I clicked the activation link and when I went to my dashboard the default state was 'disabled'. You might want to make that 'enabled'.

Good luck!

strick | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which VPS hosting providers supply native IPv6?

AWS can do this I think but you need to use an ELB (elastic load balancer) to handle the ipv6 connection to the internet and use ipv4 between the ELB and your EC2 servers. Someone please chime in if I have this wrong.

strick | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: where do you get your non-tech news?

I subscribe to http://nextdraft.com/ and love the daily email

strick | 12 years ago | on: Poll: Do you actually use the product you are working on?

Yes, similar. My service works today on Android and doesn't crash every time I launch the app on iOS, but yes otherwise similar.

strick | 12 years ago | on: Poll: Do you actually use the product you are working on?

Yep using http://www.yearloop.com/ every day. Each day it sends me an email with picture from 1 yr ago, 2 yrs ago, etc. It is powered by Dropbox. Beta testing now if you want to join in for free!