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The more I look at Titan, the more I think it's a great solution to my needs.

Thanks for the great post guys, it hits on some topics I've been wondering about lately.

While critiques are awesome, those sorts of comments actually provide valuable insight.

Judging by frequency/consistency of topic, they can be used as a launch point for improving a product. They often include insight into what people making snap judgements (hint: we all do) think about your product/website/etc. While longer form critiques give excellent advice, short comments such as these provide a different take, which actually informs the critiques as well.

Ah, thank you. Missed that when I was skimming.

Is this linguistic scale available somewhere?

Thanks to everyone that took the time to view my personal site and give feedback. I've lost my cofounder since I posted so that makes the site that much more important.

Redesigned Site: http://christopherbiscardi.github.com/

I highly appreciate what you're doing for me. This is something that is very important to me, and every bit of advice and criticism is worth gold.

The more I read it, the more I agree with you. I was trying to preemptively adjust the font size (I prefer large text and find myself zooming in all the time), but in combination with the paragraph width I'm starting to believe it doesn't work.

That's exactly what I'm doing. HN is giving me exactly what I was hoping for.

Thanks for the perspective. Skill bars are clearly non-trivial.

I think I will swap out the skill bars. Maybe some code/explanations would work better.

On it.

Fair judgement.

The reason for the photos being on the same page is because it eliminates a click, a page load and a move offsite.

I'll work to become more knowledgable in the field of design as I clearly have left some issues on the table. (I enjoyed reading through the link btw.)

Thank you.

Highly Appreciated. I'm looking over everything again.

Thank you!

I'd love to check some out. Which of your posts would you recommend?

edit: Just checked out Easy Retirement Planning. Looks pretty sweet. What age do you think is a good time to start using such a platform?

You have a point.

Originally this was just a side project to develop something other than the product for a night. It then grew into a personal site to be used on a YC application.

I appreciate the viewpoint, and since I know not what PG & co are actually like IRL, it may be wise to remove the comments.

Agreed. Thank you for the feedback.

edit: should be fixed.

Thanks for the feedback.

Perhaps an accordion would serve to condense the information into a more manageable space... or maybe displaying them in a different chart style. I'll have to put some thought into it.

I've been working with node since v0.2.x Mostly JSON API's. I wrote an oauth library awhile back from spec to talk to the tumblr api. Recently I've been moving away from node for API's and towards Clojure, but that's a different issue.

As for Mongo, I've set up sharded, replicated deployments for clients to run node API's off of. Typically on AWS. I've also worked with GridFS for image/metadata storage and retrieval.

I was hesitant to put it so high because I am not intimately familiar with the gritty plumbing of Mongo, which lends strength to your point that skill bars are pretty subjective.

In the end, I made the skill bars as a way of saying "I'm competent to work with these technologies" and as a comparison between the various tech I have listed.

You are correct though. A frame of reference is important. I do plan to place aside information either in popovers or attached sidebars.

edit: That's an interesting comment about the education space. I placed it highly because I actually dropped out of college to start my own consulting business. In that way it would not represent the traditional model of a Harvard education representing the top of the chain and would add more to the story of how I became who I am, and how I can drive a company forward.

edit2: Thank you for making me look at the Education section again. I now understand why you think I'm still in school, awaiting a degree. Changing the wording now.

If it's just a static site, why not use GH-pages?

You inspired me to build out a personal website for my YC app.

Check it out here if you're interested: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4676920

If anyone takes a look I'd love to hear some feedback.

I'm trying to get into YC this year (with my co-founder) and I didn't have a personal page... so I made one.

Is there a use case supporting native (iOS, Android) apps?

To me, the site seems to be targeted at web platforms (Which I'm considering using for a current project).

I agree with this, and believe it has implications for being able to communicate well and give greater precedence to the ideas one is presenting. ie: being able to grok someone else's though process to the level of allowing them to reach your conclusion on their own.

I came to a similar solution as you, and am on my way to becoming a polyglot (English, French, Spanish, Russian and Swedish/Norweigan). I even started learning Na'vi, but the person I was learning it with wasn't as into it, so it got dropped.

I believe this has also driven my adoption of languages like Haskell and Clojure, While making it easier for me to pick up languages such as Java and Obj-C.

Thank you for this comment.

I started talking like that when I was younger as, I believe, a direct result of reading 6-7 books a week. The language would just surface as I was in the middle of a sentence. That language was quickly derided by my peers and those "above" me.

I found that conversing in a more general manner ("fire" vs "conflagration") is conducive to moving conversations forward, even if it results in a muddled understanding.

I now make efforts to speak in a less exact fashion in most circumstances and I've lost a good bit of my vocabulary as a result.

On occasion I write (privately) in such language so that I retain the ability to speak in a more exacting fashion, but it's rare these days and I often feel like I'm not presenting my arguments as well as I could be.

This is going to be short but my advice is "Jump In".

As long as you keep at it you'll learn how to swim in larger and larger oceans.

You can ask questions on sites like StackOverflow or in IRC if you get stuck.

Heh. Having some fun browsing around.

Some of the recordings are better than others. I think the Gotye cover (Mademoiselle Igor - Quelqu'un que j'usais de connaître (Gueautiaient)) is the best I've heard so far.

Gotye: http://www.pardon-my-french.fr/songs/Mademoiselle%20Igor%20-...

Tesla is planning a lower cost vehicle, somewhere in the 30k range.

Quick search turns up this: http://www.plugincars.com/tesla-reveals-lower-priced-fourth-...

As I understand it their plan was high-price/low-volume to start and progressing towards high-volume/low-price as time went on.

Working on a Clojure implementation here: https://github.com/ChristopherBiscardi/Maximum-Clique--Spars...

Have some other stuff to do, will probably finish later.

I paint and play competitive beach(and indoor) volleyball. I also meditate.