bouncingsoul

178 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=336085

17 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=535675

I guess it's not as impressive as running your own site, but it gets you 90% of what you need and lets you try out your idea to see if there's enough interest in the first place.

Existing design link sites are very low level and amateur. I'm trying to create a place for design links with substance.

The best I can think to do would be to use the browser's bookmark all tabs feature and then export the bookmarks to a usb drive.

Not pretty or convenient, but maybe faster than saving each individually.

I don't think it was a sincere effort. That's my point. Zed just wanted to be able to say mean things about people and not experience any consequences for it. And that's silly.

This fumbling around now is annoying. If he wants to be a mean person he should be a mean person. If he wants to be nice he should say he doesn't want to be mean anymore and be nicer. Changing his behavior and saying it's because I wasn't smart enough to handle his persona – and by the way don't criticize him for anything he said... What is that?

What comes to my mind is a fumbling art student who's been called out on a bad piece, so he's now claiming it's a parody of bad work, or, no wait, actually the reaction of everyone to the poor piece is the piece.

He trots out the persona argument all the time, but I won't give it to him. A persona isn't a set of fake glasses, nose and mustache you can wear whenever you don't want something attached to people's image of you. People with personas make a great effort to separate them from their real selves – wearing costumes, using different names, and actually behaving differently. Ranting from zedshaw.com under the name Zed Shaw doesn't fit my idea of a persona.

Also, it bothers me that the supposed real Zed Shaw uses this deletion to criticize people and put them down (for taking his "persona" seriously) – something his "persona" was well known for.

-- The name did make me think there'd be live timing function. Unless the thing with the broken, blinking 00h00 is it.

-- Project naming is broken. You allow projects to be named with more than one word, but things break if you do that: you can't use @Project Name, and todos added to a multi-word–named project are saved incorrectly and only get tagged with the first word of the project, so they aren't added to the project at all.

-- The projects should not be listed with arrows between: they imply a hierarchy where there isn't one. Also the general design breaks with more than two realistically named projects: http://imgur.com/Q49W.jpg

Seriously, everyone should work with real examples. It takes time and mental effort to enter realistic data, but how else will you know how well your product works? And you'll be able to take much nicer looking screenshots that actually show what your product can handle rather than only hint at it and make me figure the rest out myself.

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Yes, if their goal is to make their website popular in the longterm and a hot destination on the web. But what if their goal is just to garner some publicity? This did that.

Also, publicity stunt implies a lack of substance, but I think the near complete outsourcing of their site and image management really is an interesting event. (And probably other people do too, so in the next couple weeks people will write blog posts about whether this is a turning point on the web or whatever – and each one of these posts will mention Skittles. A few months from now there might be a newspaper or magazine article about it, which would reach a different set of people.)

So it is a gimmick, but a genuinely interesting one that didn't cost much and will probably sell a few more bags of Skittles.

You say Skittles is wasting money and misdirecting effort, but it seems opposite. How much does this gimmick actually cost? All the content is hosted and delivered (and in some cases created) by other people. Skittles' site wasn't popular before and the next couple days will get a lot of hip people thinking about Skittles, so it's seems like a great move.

† It's also not that big a deal since it's, you know, candy, which usually puts people in a good mood. I doubt most makers of consumer electronics would display unfiltered commentary from their customers.

For me a huge part of the hassle with saving documents is naming them. When I'm in note-jotting mode it's usually low level, so to have to step back and try to quickly come up with a title that covers everything I've not yet written is frustrating because I'm not in an overview mindset and there's nothing yet to summarize. Add on to that the administrative work of filing, and saving text documents becomes something I put off for as long as possible.

I've tried Notational Velocity, but it has the same problem of forcing you to create a title separate from the content. (It also lacks creation dates, which are I find valuable for putting notes into context.)

Thinking about it, I'm pretty sure I only do it on webpages and not in Word docs or PDFs. So I wonder if it's a way of compensating for the lack of visible vertical reference points in web text.

Like, with Word docs and PDFs there is a page divider that any given text is visibly distant from. Maybe the lack of that in long web text is a problem.

Does anyone else feel that way?

200 karma – make polls (http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll).

250 karma – customize the top bar background color.

??? karma – flag posts and comments (on their individual page).

Some icons are shoddy and I don't like the harsh jewel aesthetic used for a lot of them.

I wouldn't recommend using these.

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrossOver):

* The difference with regular CrossOver is that CrossOver Games will have a shorter release cycle in order to update faster to the latest work on Wine than with regular CrossOver, which targets stability and reliability.

* Crossover Mac was divided into Standard and Pro versions like Crossover Linux. The standard version includes 6 months of support and upgrades, while the Pro version includes 1 year of support and upgrades and a free copy of Crossover Games.

I (and a lot of my friends) already have a list of artists in my Facebook profile. You should let me paste that in and parse it.

http://www.andyrutledge.com/times-new-omen.php

But rather than setting delays I'd like to just define a range (say 8am–6pm) during which mail is sent. Anything outside that range would be queued until the next period.

http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_100108WAB_monroe_...

This is probably hard since most product shots are perspective, but it would be awesome if I could point to an image at some online store and type in the dimensions and you scaled that photo to actual size.

Here's a product category where it'd be useful (and where the photos are mostly straight on): http://www.amazon.com/Canon-PowerShot-SD1000-Digital-Optical...