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Here Simon Collison has tried a decent approach for footnotes: http://colly.com/comments/redesigning_the_undesigned/

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Yawning, and smearing my eyes with my fingers, I walked bleary eyed into the kitchen and filled the kettle with fresh water from the tap, checking with my hands to make sure it was cold enough (The best tea comes from the coldest water). I glanced outside for a minute at the city mist. I could almost taste the grey. I plugged the kettle in and switched it on. As the kettle began to hiss, I looked for biscuits. Anything above loose crumbs would do. Thankfully I found some fusty digestives. For some reason, biscuits are always nicer when they've gone a bit dry and stale. I took the milk out of the fridge and poured some into a cup that I'd left out from having used earlier. The kettle began grumbling fiercely so I took it from the cord, threw a teabag into my cup and poured boiling water onto it. I watched brown swirls rise up through the muted white of milky water. A few minutes passed. I removed and squeezed the teabag, then flicked it into the bin. I picked up my mug and left the kitchen with a nice, hot cup of strong tea.

Love this so much. Please add a Mac OS widget and iCal/Google Cal support. Something like Rapportive raplet maybe. I know this is wishful thinking but I actually think this will be useful to a whole lot of people.

At the risk of being seriously down-voted in a Hacker dominated community, please read the following:

Not a designer? Here’s how to make your web apps look awesome

A) Please hire a designer. You might hire someone who is not very costly and fits your budget but I cannot over emphasize the value someone who does this day in day out brings to the table.

OR

B) If you were a designer and wanted to build something, what would you do? Use one of the million ready made coding junks like "Digg Template" or "Twitter template"? No you know very well that innovation does not work that ways. You would pick up a book and learn to program or find someone who knows it and will help you.

Just because "everybody" thinks they can design or make things "look" good, it does not mean it is design. Read a few books like the following to get started:

1)The Design Of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman, Don Norman (basics of design)

2)Visual Grammar by Christian Leborg (basics of visual design)

3)Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works by Erik Spiekermann (typography)

4)Don't Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach To Web Usability by Steve Krug (basics of UX)

5)Understanding Comics by Scott Mccloud (basics of storytelling- useful in web interfaces too)

6)The Visual Display Of Quantitative Informations by Edward R. Tufte (useful in information design and dashboards)

If you have read them and want to learn more, please feel free to contact via my HN Profile.

"In doing business with New Zealand and Australia, we're losing out on two working days a week."

Are not they gaining two days in the 5 day week. Just like US-India, there is always somebody from the company working and available due to the 12-13 hour gap.

Based on the same idea http://www.purincess.com/ExplodingBuddha/

Exactly my thoughts. Dorm rooms is like so 2 years old. I want a decent setup, a good view, high speed internet and a vision to win the world.

Appreciate the sarcasm.

Design is NOT about the way things look or for that matter even work. Design is about that inherent way of thinking that makes you question, understand and then perform actions. So yes, if you are actually good with graphic design at a fundamental level, you are also good with web or iOS or any other new screen devices where elements need to be arranged and form a visual relation.

If there is any one designer who says they are good with mobile design and not web or vice versa, beware, either the person does not their own potential or does not get design.

Designing for any medium has their own constraints and designing for that medium is designing within those constraints.

Is that the reason for the downvote? Honestly surprised by it!

going to the pub and talk (about technology) over a beer is what became a social hack.

"If you can design one thing, you can design everything."

— Massimo Vignelli.

In case you are still looking for the other setups, do give http://Pinboard.com a spin. One time pay, but very nice.

Something similar I had written a year back: http://tuhinkumar.com/journal/good-taste/

Ok I just had another idea, so thought to write it here, in case PG gives it a look. How about showing votes after you took an action on a particular post. Say you upvoted a post, or replied to it, then you are eligible to seeing the points that it has.

This helps because even if in hindsight, I would know if the comment was the general consensus or a popular one or not?

Similar: http://www.squrl.com/

Is there a way for the Hacker News effect like we have Fireballed? Hackend? hacked seems miscommunication!

But a really good reply to the bad comment could get 100 upvotes yet be down, right? This is my interpretation of the rules here, not sure if they are correct.

Does not work that way if a reply has 100 upvotes, does it?

Also I love the discussion in this post since, when with Georgify (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2410195) I had tried first to seperate the upvotes with points of a comment, everyone (and yes a blanket term) had said it was a wrong thing to the extent that I had to make changes.

Of course it is not my site to make decisions for the users of the site, but still almost a dual reaction when the same decision was taken on HN by two different people in a very nearby time span, one being me (for Georgify) and the other being PG himself (for HN).

Duplicate comment: Reposted so that context is maintained

Ok I tried the product and here are my suggestions:

1) Use Google Connect/Yahoo or something so that you can access my Contacts list

2) It is the same as opening a browser window with email app since the contacts are not there already or shown in a dropdown.

3)The problem is not that I have to move away from the page to share it. The pain comes in moving away and doing stuff. If I have to move away to find that one email id, it is of no use.

4) Who would save Contacts in a seperate list? No CSV Upload is not the solution.

Ok I tried the product and here are my suggestions:

1) Use Google Connect/Yahoo or something so that you can access my Contacts list

2) It is the same as opening a browser window with email app since the contacts are not there already or shown in a dropdown.

3)The problem is not that I have to move away from the page to share it. The pain comes in moving away and doing stuff. If I have to move away to find that one email id, it is of no use.

4) Who would save Contacts in a seperate list? No CSV Upload is not the solution.

Sorry for being rude (if I was). I have that feeling too when I get no love for my ideas or comments or web projects. But I have learnt to put the narcissism behind me and take the bigger lesson. Which is: WHY did it happen? WHY did they not like it?

Also I will give it a shot and suggest if there is something that can be improved (at least from an experience perspective). You can of course take it or ignore it too.

Getting no love on HN does not mean you or the product is not good. Being sad and pouty about it might. Move on, make it so big and good that someone else posts it on HN the next time instead of you doing it.

The Ballpark site has the CTA at the right bottom part of the page as well. So even they are following the principle/assumption rather than neglecting it.

Feature sounds disillusioned especially with the social engineering and data-mining brought together.

The next big guy (let's not make the poor guy/girl follow someone else's legacy) can be anybody who is great in either of Design, Programming or Business and practically capable (if not 10X) in the other two.

If you are just a great hacker, you CANNOT be the next thing. If you are just a designer, you CANNOT be the next big thing. And likewise.

Assumption: You do not have a team/cofounder that/who compliments your skills totally and share the same vision.

Is every US Citizen's salary data released publically too (or in a format that it can be mined)?

If No, then why the distinction (did not want to use discrimination).

This is useful because I cannot remember the emails of all my friends and also the default email share widget does not know them either.

This was something ideally Google should have come up with but never mind!

As far as "without consent", one can as well go to Settings>Location and see all the apps which access your location.

Also a point to note is the device these are on (iPhones and iPads) is making them accessible to these, so saying "without consent" seems like the wrong word. The device will have that information by default and nature of it being the middle layer.

Why Apple is putting it in an unencrypted format is a different story altogether.

Yes, but I honestly believe it suffers neglect and a lot can be done to improve it. I have never seen a posting for a UI Designer hence wondering.

Also the major USP is that Dropbox behaves just like a folder on the OS and not a seperate entity.

Perhaps the Apple entertainment TV is already out there in the form of Macs, iPads and iPhones. Maybe it is just me thinking stupidly but from the way I see, the iTunes is the new Apple set top box. Certainly the Airplay and other features they are adding seem to point that way.

What if they are able to have cheaper subscription rates for shows (entire season, maybe?), entire NFL season etc. I chose what I watch and when I watch and the experience can hardly get any better.

Of course I am not saying that iTunes is at its peak of innovation, but just saying that perhaps Apple is not bringing innovation to TV but bringing TV to a host of innovative devices.

For me every bit of TV watching happens online and I would like to believe that that is the trend the industry is witnessing. What else defines YouTube buying rights for streaming live IPL matches for India, a country where TV sets definitely outshine the web streamers.