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offsky

687 karma · joined July 16, 2012

Website Inventor:

https://www.braingle.com (brain teasers, puzzles and games)

https://www.foldnfly.com (paper airplanes)

https://www.whitewings.com (more paper airplanes)

https://www.puzzletales.com (puzzle stories)

https://www.validbot.com (website validation for devs)

https://www.zazow.com (generative artwork toy)

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offsky··on Paper Airplane Designs
So, I just discovered that Adsense has an option to block ads that have "Significant Skin Exposure" so I turned this on a few mins ago.
offsky··on Paper Airplane Designs
Thanks. I’ll fix it.
offsky··on Paper Airplane Designs
That is very odd and not what I want. It’s just google Adsense. You sure your computer doesn’t have spyware?
offsky··on Paper Airplane Designs
Yeah. Sorry :(
offsky··on Paper Airplane Designs
The main problem I ran into with Angular was SEO. With a single page app, I had a hard time getting google to index the individual airplane pages. This was 5 years ago, before good solutions existed. I cobbled together a solution, but its not perfect. And Google is better about this now anyway. It would have been better to use vanilla JS or jquery to do the simple home-page filtering. But I wanted to learn Angular, so thats what I did.
offsky··on Paper Airplane Designs
Its hard to say. I never did a test where I threw them all and compared distances. I should do this! A lot depends on how accurate your folds are, and how well you tune it by small bends to the wings. This can make a big difference. I would say that "The Buzz" or "V-Wing" probably are the best. Also the classic "Basic Dart" thrown hard is difficult to beat.
offsky··on Paper Airplane Designs
Imagine my surprise when I'm reading down the HN list like I do every day and I stumble upon my own website. Thats a pretty cool feeling! Im happy to answer any questions people may have. This was my Angular learning project back when Angular just came out. I think Angular ended up being the wrong choice for this project, but it works and I learned Angular, so its all good.
offsky··on Jennifer Widom Named Dean of Stanford School of Engineering
I can honestly say that taking Widom's Intro DB class in the late 90s set my entire career trajectory. It may have been the most influential class I took at Stanford. I am very grateful for her teachings and guidance.
offsky··on Why I gave up on Asana after 15 minutes
Try toodledo.com. It is more flexible and customizable than the others. Disclosure: I am the CEO.
offsky··on Show HN: Find good SciFi books based on their score (AngularJS project)
Novelade.com only tracks the major SciFi awards (Nebula, Hugo, etc) so a book that wins a different award will not show up in our list. The point of Novelade is not to track every book ever written. Just those that win a major award.
offsky··on Show HN: HTML5 canvas site turns your face into Legos
That is a good idea. Thanks
offsky··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013)
Toodledo.com, San Diego, CA Full-time http://www.toodledo.com/info/jobs.php
offsky··on No filter: the meanest thing Paul Graham said to a startup
I had a professor at Stanford who had a policy to always give positive advice, unless you said "give it to me hot", in which case he gave you the truth. I always asked for advice this way and it saved my butt a few times. More people should have this "brutal honesty mode".
offsky··on Designers Complaining about iOS7
As a founder who also does our customer support, I got a big chuckle out of this. Its amazing how many people have such visceral reactions to change.
offsky··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013)
Toodledo (http://toodledo.com) San Diego, CA

Toodledo.com is a leading online to-do list with a companion iOS app. We believe that helping people stay organized helps them be more productive and less stressed.

We are looking for an iOS developer with experience writing large applications. Our iOS app (toodledo.com/info/iphone.php) has been in the app store since the beginning and is consistently ranked in the top 50 paid apps in the Productivity category. You will be working on a team of two to continue to improve and add new functionality to our app. Our goal is to make the best to-do list and organizational tool.

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/31215/

offsky··on Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)
Toodledo.com - San Diego, CA - full time http://www.toodledo.com/info/jobs.php Javascript developer who wants to work on a large HTML5 app.
offsky··on Ask HN: How you manage your to-do list? Are you happy with it?
I use Toodledo.com and give my tasks tags and priorities so that I can sort and filter them. It works really well for me.
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