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davman··on Show HN: Gitter – Chat for GitHub
Not directly related to your product, but I always wonder why, with soft launches like this where you gauge interest, why not make the "interest" count public? How many people have you captured?

That being said, I've wanted this idea for a while, so I signed up straight away.

davman··on Having a hard time getting over being not rich
Heh, I long for the day I have 60k in regular income, let alone passive. $1m in savings is the sort of thing I dream about.

If this is your situation and you are still not happy, I would suggest speaking to a professional about what else in your life might be lacking.

davman··on Tictail Apps
On an unrelated note, what is the model of that keyboard?
davman··on Shuttle - A simple SSH shortcut menu for OS X
Thanks for this, will be saving me time.

As a quick feature suggestion, I wonder if it's possible to have a shortcut key to get into the menu, and then possibly shortcut keys to every entry in the list?

davman··on Ask HN: An alternative to Linode?
I switched over to DigitalOcean a while back and haven't had any issues. Relatively speedy support response, cheap, SSDs, I'm happy at least for my meagre VPS needs.
davman··on What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Marathon?
I really wanted to build this... a small fleet of drones that would find the nearest parking space to my house when I leave work in case there is a football match on and my street is blocked. Unfortunately I imagine it's illegal to fly drones with cameras above city streets. :(
davman··on I've got 10 btc for the best CoffeeScript/JavaScript Nodewar bot
I want to play, my JS is good, my geometry/math is not :(
davman··on Ask HN: What are the risks of working remotely?
Yeah I can imagine that would make me pretty angry too! And possibly homeless. I'm currently living paycheck to paycheck, meaning if I didn't get paid for a months work then I wouldn't have enough money to pay rent.

It sounds like this is probably something I shouldn't risk without at least a month's financial buffer?

davman··on Codersumo - Challenge your inner sumo coder.
Looks like you've included your /assets/application-<hash>.js on every page, not just the homepage. This makes ACE throw errors because you don't have an element with an ID of "editor" on every page as well.

Hope this helps! :)

davman··on Ask HN: Tell us about your side projects.
Upon what would it depend do you think? From a technical standpoint I wouldn't expect it to need a huge amount of engineering, as I wouldn't expect a huge amount of concurrent users. I have been vaguely concerned about the legal aspect; would leaving a negative review be seen as slander/libel? I'm sure there must be some legal protection for this based upon the hundreds of product review websites.
davman··on Ask HN: Tell us about your side projects.
I want to work on something where people can leave comments/reviews about rented property they have lived in. Whenever I move to a new place I always find myself wanting to ask the last person why they left, so I can be aware beforehand if the shower leaks, or the rooms are damp or the landlord is useless. I've found sites that have reviews of landlords or letting agents, but not of the actual properties themselves.

I'd love to know if anyone else thinks this is feasible/useful.

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