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Trindaz··on Show HN: Chrome extension to put GitHub's header back to the way it was
Dark header is the basis of all suffering
Trindaz··on Show HN: Chrome extension to put GitHub's header back to the way it was
Sometimes the changes are bad
Trindaz··on Ask HN: Why does GitHub have a black bar?
Which is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13619401
Trindaz··on “Don't fuck up the culture” – A letter to the Airbnb team
In case any first time founders out there are basing some of their own management ideas on this letter, please remember:

"Families and tribes" (a) get by fine without explicit processes because they are small groups, or (b) they do have the processes but they don't need to be written down because they are taught implicitly from birth.

Arguments of the form "We don't need [insert any concept from management text books] because we are smart, technical people" are the flags on areas of your company that will break the worst.

Trindaz··on `three = 1` in the linux sourcecode
I finally have an answer to the "what's your favorite line of linux source code" question.
Trindaz··on Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear
This might help bloggers write copy, but it's definitely not good for writers. The first paragraph of Chapter 1 of Robert Hughes' Shock of the New has these stats according to Hemingway:

5 of 12 sentences are hard to read. 2 of 12 sentences are very hard to read. 2 adverbs (he should be aiming for "0 or less"). 0 words or phrases could be simpler*

*this "could be simpler" feature might be a bit ambitious. If you're confident in telling me that the entire text is essentially too complicated, it seems contradictory that at the same time none of it could be made more simple.

Trindaz··on Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only
So if we name them girlpages will that have the affect of attracting more women into tech?
Trindaz··on How to convert and retain SaaS customers with a phone call
Even though I rarely answer calls from an unknown number, I wish more Startups used something like this within 24 hours of me signing up instead of the usual follow up email 6 to 12 months later telling me about new features or offering help. By that time I can't even remember why I signed up.

I'm also biased because I love being sold to when the rep is executing her pitch well.

Trindaz··on Every Nodejitsu app is down
I feel the same - intermittent short (1min) down times happen pretty regularly, about once a month, and I only know that from my own monitoring tools - no emails or notifications from them. I want to love them too :(
Trindaz··on Introducing Gmail Tap
I was actually hoping this wasn't an April Fools joke. I hate those tiny qwerty keys.
Trindaz··on Nasty Gal, an Online Start-Up, Is a Fast-Growing Retailer
I'm surprised to read Nasty Gal being seen as a fad - what indicators of stability are stronger than 6 years of consistent growth? Don't fashion fads have a single season 6 month life expectancy?
Trindaz··on The Truth about a Failing Startup
Me too - Dave.trindall@gmail.com
Trindaz··on Web Scraping with Node.js and Chimera
Has anyone actually gotten this working? I've tried installing on Mac OS X and Ubuntu, both with various problems. The precompiled binaries don't work, the qt build scripts fail, etc. etc.
Trindaz··on HackerNews API: What if HN does not have API? Make API on the fly with APIfy
Is this related to http://www.apifydoc.com/?
Trindaz··on Ask HN: Tools to make an API from *any* website?
Exactly the kind of tools I'm interested in. Thanks.
Trindaz··on Looking for Australian startups to feature on my new blog
(I'm DaveT from Chorus)

Technically we're not based in Australia any more.

Trindaz··on Why being an Aussie startup sucks
In Australia we build companies so that we don't have to work for someone else, and we scoff at big ideas.

In the US we build companies to change the world, and we scoff at small ideas.

(from an Aussie who recently made the move to Silicon Valley)

Trindaz··on Show HN: Chorus - It tells you what your customers think and feel
We're quoting you on that!
Trindaz··on Show HN: Chorus - It tells you what your customers think and feel
It takes in anything your customers say in real time (tweets, blogs, surveys, but mainly email)

Then it analyzes all the data, figuring out who's happy, who's unhappy. You can then search the results. Main example: type in a product that your company sells, Chorus will tell you how your customers feel about it, how the feelings are changing over time, and what you need to address now to make your customers more happy.

Trindaz··on Show HN: Chorus - It tells you what your customers think and feel
Couldn't get it to crash with Firefox/Firebug. What OS are you using?
Trindaz··on Show HN: Chorus - It tells you what your customers think and feel
Good point. We edited the title to something less likely to be construed as proving PG wrong.
Trindaz··on YC Interview Prep Flash Cards
"boxers or briefs?"

Maybe the Submit Question page was overly ambitious

Trindaz··on Ask HN: How do you make a vision come true?
Awesome question, but probably won't get a great response here because potential answers can't be objectively debated. There are patterns worth observing though: find a handful of people who have achieved similar to what you have in mind, study them, and look for common traits to emulate.
Trindaz··on Ask HN: How to stave off decline of HN?
Count clicks on articles.

I've found the title of the article is fairly representative of how much I enjoy reading it. If this is true for others, why try to force us to upvote articles? Just count the clicks and use that as a strong weight in rankings. Is it currently analysed at all?

Trindaz··on Poll: How many times have you applied to YC?
2nd application, 1st for http://www.chorusindex.com and was invited for an interview
Trindaz··on Questions That Should Have Been On The Y Combinator Application
That's what the video is for!
Trindaz··on Ask HN: Contact Management solutions
Thanks frossie these guys look interesting
Trindaz··on Ask HN: Contact Management solutions
This is cool, and I wanted to sign up, but the page tells me "Field must be between 6 and 120 characters long." even though the password I'm trying to use is 9 chars.
Trindaz··on Schizophrenic Brains Not Fooled by Optical Illusion
Yes. Continuing the word based analogy, the video is just permutations of "conversation" leading up to it's correct spelling, then more permutations.

If you take the frame that show's the inside of the mask alone, is there a way to prove the image is of a concave object? To see it as convex is arguably 'wrong' but it's a moot point because you're looking at something that is objectively identical to a convex object anyway.

Couldn't I just extend your argument to say the fact that you see a face at the very start of the movie is an illusion? After all it's a mask, not an actual face.

Trindaz··on Schizophrenic Brains Not Fooled by Optical Illusion
Maybe the fact that I'm the only one mentioning this means I'm a little less intelligent than the rest of us, but...

Isn't a 'real' illusion one that causes you to see something that isn't objectively there? For example, The Grid illusion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_illusion).

If you find an alternative way to create an identical image, then it's forgery, not an illusion.

Put another way, the Grid Illusion is to "worng sleplnig" what the Hollow Mask is to "conversation" (a word in both the English and French languages)

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