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middlegeekon Socialcam Now Available

If I was interested in tagging people, why wouldn't I just post it to Facebook?

middlegeekon A Rare Disagreement

"In my experience, employees at Apple care very much what users and developers are saying."

Except employee 0.

middlegeekon I'm 15. I just got covered on Mashable and TNW

Congrats!

How did did you build it?

middlegeekon Video Tutorials on Computer Programming and More

Ah yes, the house rules. Fair enough.

middlegeekon Poll: If I asked, would you send me your "Saved Stories"?

The response I wanted to click is, "Yes, if you reported it anonymously." What I did choose is "Yes, almost certainly."

middlegeekon Video Tutorials on Computer Programming and More

This wasn't the title I submitted this with. Does anyone know how it was changed?

(My original title was something about discovering a blue collar version of the Kahn Academy.)

middlegeekon Show HN: What Do You Think Of My Resume?

Great job! But I just would have gotten someone with better handwriting to do the board. Also, change that profile picture!

middlegeekon Competitor launches a better product at lower price. How do you respond?

Make your product better than theirs. People pay for quality.

middlegeekon Nobody really gives a damn what you built your site in (why I chose asp.net).

Wow, great insight for a fellow non-CS person who wants to build their own site anyway. I just subscribed to your blog. Thanks!

middlegeekon How would you turn a free classifieds website into a business?

This is a bit outside of the present scope of the site, but how about offering pre-printed yard sales sign for sale online? Possibly you could partner with a site that already provides this and you would make revenue on a referral basis.

middlegeekon I built this 'HN inspired' site. What do you think?

Looks good but the font is a little too big for me liking. I want to see more on a page at a time.

However, great job getting it up and running!

middlegeekon Random Startup Generator

Not quite complete, nowhere does the description say the team is "passionate" about technology and/or design.

middlegeekon The Answers Are Out There, and New Q. and A. Sites Dig Them Up

The above link asked me to log in. Try:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/07/technology/07question.html...

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

middlegeekon Thanks for your interest in Google I/O, but ... is now sold out.

The registration form was still live when I just clicked on it.

middlegeekon Ask HN: If I build it, will you pay? (Open photo sharing service on S3)

I would probably pay. My dream solution would back up my pictures and the let me share the ones I wanted to share. (Not a photo hobbyist, just like to take lots of pictures.)

middlegeekon Useful apps for Hacker News

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jazzychad.hn

This Hacker News app for Android is my favorite and recently ousted the one listed in this article on my device. Especially useful is the "text-only on viewtext.org." feature.

middlegeekon Internet Buttons: a page of buttons that make it easy to use the Web

"...weak domain name."

To you. Remember the demographic that will be using this.

middlegeekon What we have learnt running a bootstrapped startup

Thanks. Okay, maybe I just slightly disagree with them. I mostly agree with the "create value, money will come" philosophy. However I would say create value and if the value is very substantial, the money will come. However depending on how substantial the value is, you may have to work to make the money come along.

I am not saying they are wrong, I would just put a little more confidence behind Guy's statement.

middlegeekon What we have learnt running a bootstrapped startup

"As corny as it may sound, we were particularly impressed with Guy Kawasaki’s ‘Create value and money will follow’ advice when we started up...Had we known then that he was going to create AllTop in future, we would have probably introspected a little more before buying his line of advice."

I don't understand this statement, specifically the reference to AllTop. Can someone offer me some insight?

middlegeekon Missing Google Exec's Last Tweet From Egypt: "We Are All Ready To Die"

Actually his most recent post was, "@SweetOwl proxy servers"

http://twitter.com/ghonim

middlegeekon HN: I'm building a TC alternative. Will you share your startup's story with me?

Have you looked at Beyond the Pedway?

http://www.beyondthepedway.com/

middlegeekon Ask HN: Does anyone know of a good android app tutorial?

No problem, now that I am on lunch, I looked up a few others.

Here is the Google guide I was talking about: http://developer.android.com/ here are some tutorials from there: http://developer.android.com/resources/index.html They call these tutorials but you are really just copying and pasting but I bet you could reverse engineer simple apps from this starting point. http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/views/index.htm...

Here are a couple tutorials, I have not reviewed them much so it is up to you to decide if they are any good: http://www.activefrequency.com/blog/2009/ground-up-android-g...

http://www.vogella.de/articles/Android/article.html

These guys talk about their experience in app development. http://www.kreci.net/ http://www.bryandenny.com/index.php/2010/05/25/what-i-learne...

Of course there is the App Inventor but when I did their tutorials I felt a little more like I was building a pre-fab kit rather than learning how to create: http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/

middlegeekon Ask HN: Does anyone know of a good android app tutorial?

I have have sort of made my own path.

I watched this video which is not exactly a tutorial but gave me some good comprehensive knowledge, there is a part 2 as well. http://marakana.com/forums/android/general/230.html

Next I have been going through Hello, Android (Introducing Google’s Mobile Development Platform, 3rd Edition, by Ed Burnette) and will probably be doing the Apress Beginning Android book next.

Also check out http://www.reddit.com/r/android. Look on the sidebar as there are other subreddits of interest to you, especially http://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev.

Finally there is a tutorial in the Google documentation.

Best of luck!

middlegeekon Live broadcast of LA Hacker News Meetup

Thanks!

middlegeekon Design for Hackers: Why You Hate Comic Sans

Is this parody or your real view?

middlegeekon Live broadcast of LA Hacker News Meetup

Who was the guy who was speaking about selling his videos and said he had created the presentation on the bus?

I think he presented before the guy who spoke about Perftools. Thanks!

middlegeekon Comrades raise your pitchforks and take back the neighborhood

Sounds like the problem is sprawl and the fact that most of the houses near you are McMansions is besides the point. All houses in a climate that nears 100F are going to want AC.

middlegeekon Comrades raise your pitchforks and take back the neighborhood

Your (dbingham) argument is full of subjective arguments. Very judgmental.

middlegeekon Comrades raise your pitchforks and take back the neighborhood

So what? If they have the money and the land, go ahead and build what you like. That is what makes America free. This article is quite an example of class-ism.

middlegeekon Open question: What's the point of inbox zero?

I practice "unread zero". I leave emails in my inbox in case I need them later. The search function works well. If they are not marked "unread", I don't pay attention to them thus my brain does not see it as clutter.