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rdvrkon Show HN: Create recommendation guides for friends

Both, I guess. If the user is searching for a romantic location, then it's a guide tag. If he knows where he is going already, or if it just isn't a themed trip (other examples for themed trips: art, nightlife, family, outdoors...) then list tags (or even list item tags) are more useful.

rdvrkon Show HN: Create recommendation guides for friends

I still like what you're doing here, but I feel that data entry should be more user friendly, more dynamic. As it is, it looks like something you would use for the backend, like an improved version of phpmyadmin. Tagging would be useful. It would also be great if you could pull more content from the linked websites and maybe base the design around shorter descriptions. Shorter content, which I assume would be more common than detailed guides, makes the pages look kinda empty.

Hope it helps. I'm only writing this because I'd probably use the service if it gets more polish. Oh, and it would be nice if I could make my guides private, so that I could use the site not only for past journeys, but for planning as well.

rdvrkon Show HN: Create recommendation guides for friends

Nice idea! Your server crashed before I could test the site fully, but I did find a tiny css bug: http://imgur.com/kSliFCL (Chrome 40.0.2214.85 beta (64-bit), OS X Yosemite)

rdvrkon Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

Little onions love to disco. With Chinese translations. And the TV Truck. Maybe they have an augmented reality product coming? Bringing back the rainbow logo? This is terrible.

rdvrkon Doomsday rule: calculate the day for any date

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=January+2%2C+218129

sunrise: not reached :|

rdvrkon YoAuth

Why does the user need to receive a Yo? Wouldn't it be better to ask users for their handle, and then tell them to Yo a specific account in 30 seconds? If it worked like that, yoauth couldn't be used for spam, nor could you Yo someone you know in order to get their credentials if they replied.

rdvrkon Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer

I admire the effort that went into this. As anyone who ever tried creating a font knows, it's really tough putting it all together.

It's not _that_ bad at 12pt, but all that's wrong with the font really shows with smaller sizes. Stroke weights are inconsistent, eyes too small. The font was meant to be "clear, pragmatic and very readable". Right now, it's none of these.

Technical problems can be solved, and the font will look good to some. I don't like it, but that's just a matter of taste. Layman's opinion on aesthetics can only have statistical value (and it's questionable if professional's opinion should be valued more).

What really bothers me is pretentiousness of the first paragraph. Basically, "everything was meant to be great, so it is". That - along with a todo that says nothing about fixing flaws, but dreams of having cyrillic, greek, unicode - is the biggest problem of all.

Fixing that first would go a long way toward making this a newsworthy item and a font to keep an eye on.

rdvrkon XPlain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us

Beautifully done; the writing style, the server running inside my browser - wow!

I haven't been so excited about a piece of software for ages. Reading this and looking at demos gives me the same feeling of amazement I got reading paper magazines when I was younger. Exploring floppies included with books, hearing the modem connecting for the first time, short pause, stream of characters before the login prompt. Magical.

Thank you Jasper_ for doing this and emillion for the link.

rdvrkon Time-lapse video of Bethany's maniac week of coding

Cool! I need to try this someday (week). And the video is just pure madness. You might want to add a small warning, though - I'm not an expert nor an epileptic, but the video does look seizure inducing to me.

Plug: Maybe you could try a tiny chrome plugin I wrote:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-you-have-anyt...

It's a simple site blocker I made after doing the same /etc/hosts routine a couple of times.

rdvrkon Ask HN: Looking for feedback on my side project

Great!

I do understand the problem. The problem is real, and this seems like a great developer friendly way to solve it. In my mind, that could probably make it commercially viable by itself, but why don't go a step further? Solve it for non-developers as well:

I might have missed it (which could make it a UX flaw then), but there doesn't seem to be a way to upload tabular data in any form and use that on a template. Why not? You could make it work with csv, javascript supported grid, or maybe some easily parsable spreadsheet format.

Pricing is not my strong suit, so no real comment on that - only that adding an "upgrade account" button to accounts section would be nice.

Good luck!

rdvrkon My Conversation with “Eugene Goostman”

If I were to chat with a random person online, and their conversation starter was "Which is bigger, a shoebox or Mount Everest?", I'd probably ignore that - and disconnect after a couple more "witty" questions. Eugene is just trying to be nice.

As someone said, it gets better if you try having a normal conversation.

I'd like to see what would happen if the people who created this let a real 13 year old boy chat with people, but announcing it as the supercomputer version.

rdvrkon GigYard – My first side project

How is it different from taskrabbit.com?

rdvrkon Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services

Super useful. It's nice that you can set auth parameters (basic/digest/oauth1&2) and headers easily.

I use it as a packaged app, so launching it is the same as it is for native stuff.

rdvrkon 2(048)

http://imgur.com/Gn3fJEs