vColin's comments

vColin | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: I finally relased my first product

Thanks for the encouragement!

That actually reminds me - that stuff shouldn't even be in the client-code. And even if it should be there, methinks it ought to be scrambled somehow :)

Your deductions are indeed correct - I am in the UK - Cambridge in fact.

vColin | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: I finally relased my first product

I think I know exactly what you mean - restrict the highlighted letters to be in a single direction.

Something I was considering was changing the selection mechanics so that you click at the first letter and then drag to the final letter before releasing. I think that would be more intuitive.

Yes, I agree it's raw, almost embarrassingly so. Still, release early and iterate!

vColin | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: I finally relased my first product

Thanks for pointing that out - my IE testing has been sporadic at best! I'll definitely take a look at that.

vColin | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: I finally relased my first product

Noted. At the moment I am just happy if anyone even visits the page though. But I realise that there is no clear direction to the new visitor. Another thing to add to the never-ending list.

vColin | 15 years ago | on: Using Python and heat maps to determine the best place to aim on a dart board

Find where you should aim with this handy utility: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~ryantibs/darts/dartsapplet.htm... (context: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~ryantibs/darts/)

vColin | 15 years ago | on: W3C Says HTML5 Isn’t Ready for the Web

Yup, the start of the first sentence should read "An official from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) told reporters today" rather than "An today".

Bad markup being the culprit - somewhat ironically.

vColin | 15 years ago | on: Facebook says it owns "book", suing startups using [generic]book.tld

Looking at my list of domains there are:

  * 118152 com domains ending in "book"
  * 14450 net domains ending in "book"
  * 8666 org domains ending in "book"

which is going to require a lot of litigation.

Even narrowing it down to domains ending in "book" with "face" somewhere in the domain, there are:

  * 6175 com domains
  * 691 net domains
  * 389 org comains

Where to draw the line?

vColin | 16 years ago | on: Copy & paste some text from this article. Notice anything funny?

37Signals covered this or something similar: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2087-smart-pasting-at-the-new....

Tynt (http://www.tynt.com/) was the "culprit" in that case and looks so here.

vColin | 16 years ago | on: Bithacks.h - bit hack macros

Another related bit twiddling resource: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html.

The comments accompanying the code are interesting too.

vColin | 16 years ago | on: *.apache.org is currently offline.

"10:42am UTC: Compromise was due to a compromised SSH Key, not due to any software exploits in Apache itself."

vColin | 17 years ago | on: Writing Decisions: Headline tests on the Highrise signup page

Interesting – I wonder what the variance in the “kind” of sign-up might be. Perhaps those designs that highlight the “free” aspects will encourage a lot of try-outs that then bail after the 30 days; while the designs that don’t will see more longer term sign-ups.

The results of a follow-up after 30 days to see how many stay could also be enlightening.