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Makes one heck of a screen saver

Great post. Those super-early adopters are awesome. I consider myself lucky that, as a high school senior and one-man team who utilizes free software and services like AWS EC2, I don't feel compelled to amass a userbase to put dinner on the table. It's really a great experience to have nothing more than $10 (for the domain name) and a bunch of (well-spent) hours invested in a web service. And the best part is: I built it for myself and anyone else who finds it valuable. I built it because I wanted a web-based alternative to iTunes on iOS. It's pure freedom - the idea that almost anyone can build something they want to use and put it online makes me appreciate the Web all the more.

Well that's just messed up. I have no problem with Microsoft's market dominance; I just think they're a problem since they give the finger to our freedom of choice.

Good to know. I'm seriously considering some ways to cut down on the overhead, so this is great.

We're just waiting for a really smart simulation programmer with access to a super-powerful computer to create a simulation of a small, earth-like world so we can watch as accelerated evolution creates some human-like (or not) being with a similar brain. I think we can write an algorithm for an AI that can pass the Turing test, but I think serious AI that will precipitate the singularity will come as a result of evolutionary algorithms and very powerful computers.

Apparently etune.com is available... cooler than any of my domains, and randomly generated. Nice.

Sweet! I love this name: etabocagi

Sounds like an indigenous tribe or something

Well, I suppose I'm a lazy aesthete.

You're right, but I never use the grid stuff anyway; I only want to invest time in learning about something if it's not framework/vendor-locked, so to speak, so I'd rather just use the elements and do the scaffolding myself.

Glyphicons are probably my favorite part, though.

Yeah, but I'm a broke high school senior (1-man team), so I'm sort of forced to take advantage of free stuff like Bootstrap and the free year of Amazon EC2.

Bootstrap is definitely useful if you're just tinkering - it makes a minimum viable product look sort of legit ;)

But I would certainly invest in specialized developers to make a lighter-weight, in-house UI if I were really serious about a website.

Not everyone is a HTML/CSS hacker. It's a really valuable front-end framework. My app wouldn't look nearly as professional without it.

Good point. That would make sense

Good plan. When a site is DDoSed, encourage thousands of HN viewers to check it out :P

Not sure if I like this at all. I think they need to call it

Bootstrap 3: flat and fat!

It just seems like a huge step back to me. It's not even an elegant "flat" design; it's like they scrapped everything and decided to make all classes (even buttons for God's sake) DIVs of different colors. The new navbar, for example, is literally a gray DIV with rounded edges. I use Bootstrap on my web app because I care about design, but I don't care so much about learning fancy CSS; Bootstrap takes care of making things look subtly 3D, shaded, animated, etc., and that's what I'm looking for. I can make flat DIVs myself, thank you very much.

Sean Parker is # 207,996

I thought Outliers by Malcom Gladwell was a good book, but maybe it's an exception. It really shed some new light on life in general, so I'm glad I read it as a high school junior. It's ignorant to write off an entire genre of books, even if much of the genre is comprised of convenience store bookshelf "Become a millionaire overnight!" title bait books on the subject; when an author takes a closer look at what success really is, it can actually be a worth-while read.

Don't let this get too popular or people (non-HN, of course) might start using it.

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This made my day.

I like how the penguin shakes when you do something wrong

It's simple and elegant. I might have to grab it on my iPhone. And as others have said, it's a great idea to offer it online to give prospective users a taste of the game. Now I can see if it's challenging enough to be worth my time :P

I made a website called http://tunejet.net that lets people play MP3s on virtually any platform that runs Chrome (including iOS). You can either store your songs in a public Dropbox folder or another server and point tunejet to the URLs, or you can find them online. It's pretty convenient, I think, and it's a nice iTunes workaround.