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I recently replaced moment (which is huge like others mentioned) with luxon (https://moment.github.io/luxon/). It has pretty much all the same functionality but a way smaller size.

Looks like a great start!

One thing that would be essential is better feedback on errors. Currently, if I enter an invalid SQL query I’m only told that it was incorrect. For beginners, this can be frustrating.

Fish has been my favorite shell for a few years. My favorite part is the auto suggestions, which works really well. And new completion rules are relatively easy to add.

Location: Helsinki, Finland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: JavaScript, CSS+SASS, Node.js, Python (Django), Cordova

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/villekaravirta

Email: vkaravir at gmail.com

Brief bio: developer at heart, researching/teaching educational technologies for programming education

Yes, couldn't read news and follow blogs without RSS.

My setup is FeedWrangler as sync backend and ReadKit on Mac, Mr. Reader on iPad, and Reeder on iPhone.

My post [1] made it to #8 on the front page last week and stayed there about 5 hours. I haven't made proper analysis yet, but here are rough numbers. The page got ~3500 visits, most of which within the first 24 hours. Most concurrent users was ~80. The first 24 hours got the linked app ~500 downloads, so that would give a pretty good conversion rate. I don't have data on how much of that came through the website or HN, though.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8070131

I've thought of other languages, but decided to focus on improving this Python version for now. This is a side project, so development time is limited.

Thanks for the feedback! Some of the questions have quite long code snippets, while some have only one line. But there should be room at least on iPhone5 to make the buttons larger. I'll work on it for the next update.

Yes, my list of feature and improvement ideas seems endless ;)

That's good to know, thanks. Based on a previous launch, I was under the impression that they wouldn't reset. But it certainly does make sense that they do reset when going from free to paid.

The app is free today and will change to paid ($0.99) tomorrow. I wanted to get downloads and hopefully climb in the rankings when launching.

That said, I built the app mostly for fun and learning, so making money -- while a nice bonus -- isn't the main motivator.

In my app, you cannot try out the code. You can step through the execution to see how the program state changes, but that's based on a pre-generated trace of the program execution.

In Pythonista and 'Python for iOS' mentioned by ldayley you can execute the code you write. Don't know how they do it, though.

Thanks!

Pythonista and 'Python for iOS' are good apps, with quite different goals than my app. They allow trying and exploring the language and learning to write programs, whereas I aim to teach basic reading skills of programs. Both are important skills.

There nowadays seems to be 'Python x.x for iOS' for almost all recent versions of Python :)

Nice game! Simple, quick to learn but yet difficult to master.

One nitpick, though: the game should support other orientations than the default one (on an iPad). At least the "other" landscape orientation. I had to rotate my device 180 degrees to a more uncomfortable position with the cover I have.

I found the annotated source code of the underscore.js to be very educational: http://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore.html

It's nice to see people are actively voting, but I'm way more interested in the data than the too rapidly flashing yellow. Just changing the numbers and flashing the font bold (or some other effect on only the number) when new votes come in should be sufficient to make it clear the number are updated realtime. But I'm no designer so what do I know ;)

True, but saying "Compete anywhere remotely in the world" on the page is misleading since it gives the impression anyone could participate.

Try the 'Submit' link from the menu in the top-left corner.

If only it had been google's self-driving car so the driver wouldn't have panicked :)

Seriously, though, why is a car accident in Indonesia news?

My local library has been lending ebooks for years. Just a few days ago, they started "lending" online movies as well: http://www.helmet.fi/en-US/Tips/News_flash/HelMet_libraries_...

My thought exactly! I still occasionally want to login to sites on, for example, my Android tablet. Given that Apple doesn't provide other platforms access to my data in iCloud, I find it hard to see how they would allow software on other platforms access to my login credentials.

"The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2014, subject to approval by Nokia’s shareholders, regulatory approvals and other closing conditions."

So yes, it will require consent from Nokia shareholders.

Link to the source (http://www.nngroup.com/articles/scrolling-and-attention/) is in the comments.

However, as the author admits in the comments (after being corrected by a reader), he has interpreted the results of the source incorrectly. The cited report actually only says that "Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fold."

The cases presented don't give much evidence for the impact of bigger images on conversion rates. Only the first case seems to be a direct comparison of images of different sizes. In the two others, the copy and design in general have changed significantly as well. In the second case, the image on the page is actually the same size, the button has been resized.

In general, though, I do completely agree with the article that the only way to find out what works is to test, test, test.

Looks pretty good and works really smoothly! Still, I prefer the HN RSS feed and Mr. Reader. For some reason, I like to see what I've read already...