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sycr | 14 years ago | on: Codename: Obtvse

It was copied in a few hours - not made - the design itself surely took longer than that.

sycr | 14 years ago | on: Twenty Advanced CSS Tutorials

Please take care in submitting "roundup" posts such as this - or altering the submission title in the future. It's generally frowned upon to do the whole "{number} Ways to Do {design/dev topic}". As mentioned in the guidelines:

> If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

sycr | 14 years ago | on: High-wage skills, or why you might want to learn Clojure if you're not a lawyer

How does one go about finding developer resources for closed applications like Oracle ATG (or really any of the above list)?

I'm employed by an eCommerce vendor myself, so I'm sure I'd have an intuitive understanding of general architecture, but actually understanding the internals of a system as an outsider seems like a difficult proposition.

sycr | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service

Not bad - definitely a solid start. This happens to be on my own idea list:

11. Full-page screenshot service that doesn't suck

I'm happy to be able to tick it off as completed by someone else. :)

Edit: I tried sending it a url with Typekit fonts on the page. No dice. I'm assuming that Javascript is turned off?

sycr | 14 years ago | on: On Business Madness

Alex, I enjoyed reading this tremendously. As a young guy, somewhat skeptical of anyone who claims authority on these matters, I grok you here:

I am not a business person. I don’t know what makes a good business. It seems like it helps to have a good idea, great people, the willingness to work hard, and an absolute shit-ton of luck. Being certain about much beyond that seems, well, a bit crazy to me.

sycr | 14 years ago | on: "Unknown or Expired Link" - A failure in gauging user intent

This has been discussed before. Here is the conversation:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3098756

And pg's explanation:

It's not so much that it's ahead of its time relative to hardware as it is something you do in the early versions of a program.

Using closures to store state on the server is a rapid prototyping technique, like using lists as data structures. It's elegant but inefficient. In the initial version of HN I used closures for practically all links. As traffic has increased over the years, I've gradually replaced them with hard-coded urls.

Lately traffic has grown rapidly (it usually does in the fall) and I've been working on other things (mostly banning crawlers that don't respect robots.txt), so the rate of expired links has become more conspicuous. I'll add a few more hard-coded urls and that will get it down again.

sycr | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: Introducing Spaceship

I knew nothing about your product just by reading your title, so these are my complete first impressions:

1) In the second sentence, I'm expecting to hear the first pitch for the product.

Generally speaking: with Spaceship, we ultimately aim to lift your creative process to a new level of productivity and fun.

Why "generally" speaking? You don't want to speak generally, you want to speak specifically about what you're offering. Secondly, you introduce your product with its benefits. That's great for most sales situations (think of all of the TV commercials that start with "Imagine if..."), but can be confusing for technical products like software. I want to know what your product does.

2) This is a really strong insight:

We found and tried a lot of products that try to simulate analog tools like note-taking apps or virtual whiteboards. Web afficionados work together in Google Docs. A forward-thinking filmmaker might manually copy character mugshots into a Dropbox folder. We heard of people who like the experience of Evernote.

3) The video is great. You're using the application to demo the application. Fantastic. But where's the audio? Why aren't you speaking with me directly? If you aren't comfortable with speaking, hire a friend for cheap.

sycr | 14 years ago | on: 25 Startup Ideas for 2012

18. A BankSimple for the payroll industry

I've thought about this one myself. Seems like an industry ripe for disruption too: with complex, expensive systems from a monopoly player (ADP). Can anyone offer some insight as to why we haven't seen startups in this space?

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