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KarlFreemanon Mozilla Acquires Pocket

It's fairly early stage but I've been actively building an alternative to Pocket called Filltray (https://filltray.com). I found myself being overwhelmed by products like Pocket/Instapaper so wanted to build something different. A place to keep things for "short" periods of time but without the baggage of having 100s of items permanently on your never-ending reading list. A "do-later" place that may or might not come around. A couple months ago I put up a public roadmap (https://medium.com/filltray/public-product-roadmap-3964c3fa4...) and I'm continuing to work hard to produce a product which meets mine — and I think others — needs for a rethink on read-later. Please feel free to follow @filltray to keep up to date with my progress :)!

KarlFreemanon Instapaper is joining Pinterest

There's a long term roadmap for saving links into conceptual "trays" which will be programmable (via a custom lambda type system which would allow for you to have a lot of flexibility). Alongside this, I'm passionate about ensuring Filltray works to surface your links that are still relevant in your life (and forgetting links you've forgotten about). There's a huge amount of room for improvement in this space especially with simple wins like using waybackmachine for permanent archives of webpages (built) and giving users the ability to retrieve contextual information about their links. Where were you, what device were you using, what time was it. Its simple to save something for later. Getting you back to _why_ is the important bit!

KarlFreemanon Instapaper is joining Pinterest

It's fairly early stage but I've been actively building an alternative to Instapaper called Filltray (https://filltray.com/guest). Please feel free to follow @filltray to keep up to date with my progress.

KarlFreemanon When to join a startup

These are great definitions of the stages of a "startup" but I'm missing the point here?

Also, at some point, does a startup not become a company?

KarlFreemanon Why Swift Guard Should Be Avoided

I feel like somewhere between the two would pass. Keep the validation as distinct functions but inline validatedItemNamed, reduceDepositedCoinsBy.

KarlFreemanon Ask HN: I just got my Stackoverflow Python gold badge - is it worth anything?

There's a variety of things related to programming which have little, to no, obvious economic value. You might find that your achievement (very well done!) economically impacts you "in-kind". Its doubtful that an employer or prospective client will look at your Stackoverflow profile and pay you more. However, your glowing referrals from your peers to both might allow you to position yourself as more highly sought after than you _actually_ are.

TLDR; Do good things and good things will come to you. Keep being awesome :).

KarlFreemanon Jsfx; js sound effect generator

Hit the jackpot of sound whilst playing with this ( just hit play ):

http://egonelbre.com/js/jsfx/index.html?load=%5B%22square%22... ( if thats not a fantastic teleport sound I don't know what is )

Amazing work!

KarlFreemanon Octopress - A blogging framework for hackers

I feel like I've unleashed a monster by posting this, personally I quite like the opinionated install for Jekyll especially the code plugin / view. Will be using it for my next blog install

KarlFreemanon Skeleton: A Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development

Been using this a lot lately, really love it thanks @dhg

KarlFreemanon 500k Bitcoins traded in 1h, Mt.Gox market hacked + crash

If you want to check if you've been Mt.Goxed I whipped up a little something for that

http://mtgoxed.herokuapp.com/

KarlFreemanon London Hacker News Meetup - Thursday, 12th May

See y'all there. Nice one dmitri1981, I'll grab one of them free beers for you ;)

KarlFreemanon Ask HN: Application Development on Physical Devices?

Thanks for the link, I'll get in touch! Appreciate it

KarlFreemanon WebGL Path Tracing

Works pretty well for me in ( Chrome, Mac ) but crashing aside its pretty damn awesome.

KarlFreemanon Rails 3.1 shipping with CoffeeScript

Couldn't agree more with you. Good points.

KarlFreemanon HireFire - The Heroku Worker Manager

Couldn't agree more. The setup time of SimpleWorker is alot ( especially when dealing with specific gems ) and the fact that for DB work you have to create a separate non concurrent connection to the DB per job makes those times you talk about a reality. Ok, you could use the 'expensive jobs' but Heroku's DJ's win hands down in all tests I've done. Plus who doesn't like the handle_asynchronously :function.

KarlFreemanon HireFire - The Heroku Worker Manager

Very handy. Was looking at using http://www.simpleworker.com/ as an alternative to the uncost effective Heroku DJ's but hopefully HireFire will sway me back to using Heroku.

KarlFreemanon Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography

I'd second that. Its damn nice.

KarlFreemanon Google capital for startups

Not sure why they didn't choose Silicon Roundabout...

KarlFreemanon Google capital for startups

http://www.google.co.za/intl/en/umbono/faq.html

"Cape Town is in the process of positioning itself as a hub for innovation and technology, as evidenced by: the Cape IT Initiative, the Bandwidth Barn, the presence of a growing tech industry in Cape Town and Stellenbosch, strong University computer science programs (UCT Stellenbosch, UWC, CPUT, etc), and the formation of the Silicon Cape network. We feel that all of these factors are key to the development of a sustainable, entrepreneurial environment in the technology sector." - FAQ 17.

KarlFreemanon Developers: why you should build for Android tablets

Not to sure I agree on the premise of building android apps because "Even a crappy app. Even one that does nothing but make fart noises" will get noticed. I don't want to associate my hard work in an environment devoid of quality. If the same argument had been made that there is a land grab situation for placing yourself at the forefront of 'popular' android applications then it would be a diffrent matter.

Lets not try and encourage crap android applications because there is no quality control guidelines ( be them good or not good )