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Good job on shipping. Have not used it so I can't comment on the product itself.

Does mindlessly staring through the office window really calm your mind? I would imagine that's when day dreaming and other thoughts creep in.

Do you use any particular app? There are a few out there.. headspace, calm, etc.

Likewise, I got my wife and daughters up to watch this. I don't totally regret it, but I feel I let them down a little.

This is a very interesting marketing (unmarketing?) strategy. I'm in a similar spot as Crew were when they posted that project, I even remember seeing it on hn at the time.

Andrew recently posted an interview [1] with the founder of betalist.com, which was also born out of desperation and as a side project. Marc talks about his betalist experiment and the impact it had [2].

I would love to see other examples and write-ups about this. Was it accidental or strategic? I'm the sole developer of our product right now, but we're also struggling with marketing at the moment. How much does it make sense for me to put the effort into such side projects?

[1] http://mixergy.com/interviews/marc-kohlbrugge-betalist/ [2] https://medium.com/beta-list/how-i-tricked-techcrunch-into-w...

I love this guy, I first saw him in his TED talk [1]. He kinda reminds me of Richard Feynman (similar mannerisms and enthusiasm for science).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj8IA6xOpSk

You can't really use a product outside of it's use case, then complain about it when you reach "outside" it's walls.. I mean you can complain all you want about it, but don't blame it on the product itself. The manual invitation form is clearly designed to discourage mass open ended invitations. A product designed for teams with 500-1000 users in mind, is probably going to get bogged down by 10,000+ users.

Chump change in today's market.

Excellent site. Something's wrong with your Apollo 13 listing [1], the Amazon Prime link points to a documentary about Apollo 13, not the movie.

[1] https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/apollo-13

Photos, color spectrum, lense, shutter.. yep similar icons, It's not that the companies mirror each other, it's companies mirroring, abstracting and simplifying core concepts for their apps into icons.

Google's recent photo app icon is more similar to Google's original Picasa[1] app icon, than it is to iOS Photo's app.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa

Fewer stores, stronger community, larger profits :) It's like email newsletter marketing... give away your content free to the 98%, the other 2% will buy your premium priced items and more than make up for the rest.

Where traditional retailers can thrive, is in the H2H (human-to-human) market. Make traditional retail be a destination for the local community by organizing events related to their business, and make the actual business (retail) be the side affect of it. It may not be as profitable as they used to be, but they can remain relevant and even thrive.

Radioshack comes to mind, they could have reclaimed their #1 destination for hobbyists by repurposing their shops as hacker spaces.

I see you made this comment several times here, so let me try and explain...

Sometimes the office pays for group lunch, if you want something else, feel free to go, but prepare to pay for it yourself (This is rarely the reason to stick with a lunch group you don't enjoy).

When a group decides to go out to lunch, it's not because they all want to eat the same thing, it's because they enjoy it or recognize that it's good for office morale. Picking where to eat is a small inconvenience in this regard.

Most of the time, the problem is not too many choices, it's indecision. Everyone is hungry, they all want to eat something Good, but if you ask them what you want, they can't decide. If you put a CHOICE, most people will say eh, there must be something better. But almost everyone is content or doesn't really care what to eat if there's a solid decision in place. That's why these apps take the decision making out.

I'll get the ball rolling. Here's Venarc's lunch picker that's probably 7-8 years old. http://www.venarc.com/lunch/

Heh, this is fun, good job on shipping.

It seems like implementing a lunch picking app is a right of passage for most startups. Is there a compiled list of start-ups and their own implementation of a lunch picking apps?

Hm, I must have gotten a js error because I didn't see an elevator button, and until I checked HN comments, I had assumed this was a social experiment/joke to see how far people scroll to find nothing. I tried it couple times, too..

Hey good job. Did you leave the stack trace on purpose or by accident?

> At first glance I thought this read "NSA data API". If they gobble everything up on the internet, then I suppose their data API is the internet.

Looks like they need to work on better error controls. They left DEBUG=True which produces debug stack traces on exceptions.

https://api.data.gov/nasa/planetary/earth/assets?lon=100.75&...

Just out of curiosity, what constitutes a holy grail framework in your opinion? Has the holy grail of back end framework been invented? Is it ruby on rails or django? How about the holy grail of database engine, build system, etc.

I don't think there's exactly one way of doing anything, there may be leaders in some spaces but I doubt any of them are considered holy grails. Pick the tool that best fits the problem at the time and don't wait for a potential holy grail in the future.

You blacked out your location in the Charles Proxy screenshot, but not in the chrome screenshot. Just an FYI.

"The teen was able to access the teacher's computer because he noticed that faculty members were each given unique, obvious passwords: Their own last name."

The level of legal response should be directly proportional to the level of stupidity of the IT department. This should have been a slap on the wrist not a felony.

There are a lot of 3 hour sessions. I love these compared to the 20 minute talks, since they go deep into the topic. I just watched James Bennett's "Django in Depth" and it was excellent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkwZ1jG3XgA

or to abandon your product

The best and earliest example I saw of this was Bret Victor's talk "Inventing on Principle" https://vimeo.com/36579366

As a possible consumer of Angular 2 in the near future, if React got something right about rendering, I would hope they implement it in this framework. What does it matter what system they use, as long as it's efficient and fast.

Ah, I don't enjoy them either, but let them have fun. This is probably more for their employees morale than for the customers.

While I agree that this was worth more than 5k, I'd like to think the delete functionality is only setting a flag and not physically removing all traces of the video, if that's the case then it'll be trivial to undo the damage.

I opened the video link in the background while I read the application. For the first two minutes I thought the drive in my macbook pro was going bad.

search "U.S. Coding Website GitHub Hit With Cyberattack" on google and click on the first link.