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imwhimsicalon My experiences with Hacker News.

So I'm guessing it's the one about an iPhone app?

imwhimsicalon Ask HN: How did you get into programming?

Got dumped by my girlfriend. Had to take my mind of things. (Hey, c'mon, just being honest here!)

imwhimsicalon My css template for responsive web design

It irritates me to see how people simply rip off Dustin Curtis' SVBTLE layout. This is disgusting.

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What is this doing on Hacker News?

imwhimsicalon Ask HN: What are some ways to raise money for a startup?

I find none of the answers here will work for me. I'm looking to make a small product, which I believe is a great idea. I need to hire designers and developers every now and then.

Borrowing money from people is not an option, and neither is will banks help me in any way — I'm a student,and 17 years old.

I have little or no savings. So yea...

imwhimsicalon Ask HN: Are desktop apps dead?

Depends on what you're making. With OS X, I don't think desktop apps are out of the scene just as yet. I see a lot of great apps on the Mac AppStore which are throttling sales. Coda, iA Writer, and Mindnode, just to name a few.

imwhimsicalon Aaron Swartz' robots.txt file

Agreed.

imwhimsicalon The problem with open source

Yup. "Awkward"

That's the word. :P

imwhimsicalon The problem with open source

While I agree that some of them are user friendly.

Think of the comparison between Microsoft Office and OpenOffice. I wanted to lay stress on the fact that mainstream developers/designers are simply not interested in Open source because it gives them nothing in return.

The very few that are, only do it for the traction.

imwhimsicalon The problem with open source

My apologies.

I'm currently franticly typing HTML/CSS code for a redesign. This was for a temporary basis anyway, but I do apologize for not making that obvious.

imwhimsicalon The problem with open source

Made a typo while entering the file name in Jekyll.

The explanation of the difference isn't mine, its from the link you'll see there.

imwhimsicalon The problem with open source

Your comment about the comparison between the PS logo and the GIMP mascot logo, are, well...your opinion. The point I wanted to raise was that a corporation like Adobe obviously spends more time and money on user experience and design as a whole, than the GIMP team (for obvious reasons)

Also, your comment about GIMP not having to go up against commercial competitors is, I'll use your vocab here, "bullshit"

GIMP is the closest competitor to PS. In fact, the greatest threat to a $700 software would no doubt be something that's free and has all the features of the latter. Here in Dubai, Inkscape is popular amongst designers.

imwhimsicalon Show HN: I just completed my small dream project and I am so proud of it Happy

It's an amazing attempt at creating a product. The fact that you had no prior skill at coding makes it even more plausible.

Here are three questions I ask myself before shipping a product:

a) What problem does it solve? b) Does it "actually" solve that problem? c) Does the end product superimpose with the vision I had before beginning development.

Ask yourself these three questions.

The interface looks amateur and the functionality isn't obvious. Also, the user has to spend time figuring out how to go about it. Apart from that, I think it's a great personal achievement for you (with regard to your comment about the hardships you faced while rolling this out!)

Also, I think this is an apt moment to quote Steve Jobs. Here you go: http://cl.ly/image/0P0V2Z080C2H

"Real Artists Ship!" :)

— A

imwhimsicalon GiveSimp.ly

Great product! But seems to be self depreciatory by limiting only to churches.

Amazing to see how the half an hour with the twitter bootstrap templates can become a viable source of income.

I dont want to have to pay to be able to pay some more.