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Re:Mozilla Acquires Pocket on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @12:05PM (#13755235)
It's fairly early stage but I've been actively building an alternative to Pocket called Filltray (https://filltray.com). I found myself being overwhelmed by products like Pocket/Instapaper so wanted to build something different. A place to keep things for "short" periods of time but without the baggage of having 100s of items permanently on your never-ending reading list. A "do-later" place that may or might not come around. A couple months ago I put up a public roadmap (https://medium.com/filltray/public-product-roadmap-3964c3fa4...) and I'm continuing to work hard to produce a product which meets mine — and I think others — needs for a rethink on read-later. Please feel free to follow @filltray to keep up to date with my progress :)!
Re:Instapaper is joining Pinterest on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @02:58PM (#12346464)
There's a long term roadmap for saving links into conceptual "trays" which will be programmable (via a custom lambda type system which would allow for you to have a lot of flexibility). Alongside this, I'm passionate about ensuring Filltray works to surface your links that are still relevant in your life (and forgetting links you've forgotten about). There's a huge amount of room for improvement in this space especially with simple wins like using waybackmachine for permanent archives of webpages (built) and giving users the ability to retrieve contextual information about their links. Where were you, what device were you using, what time was it. Its simple to save something for later. Getting you back to _why_ is the important bit!
Re:Instapaper is joining Pinterest on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @02:30PM (#12346198)
It's fairly early stage but I've been actively building an alternative to Instapaper called Filltray (https://filltray.com/guest). Please feel free to follow @filltray to keep up to date with my progress.
Re:When to join a startup on Thursday January 14, 2016 @06:26AM (#10900726)
These are great definitions of the stages of a "startup" but I'm missing the point here?

Also, at some point, does a startup not become a company?

Re:Why Swift Guard Should Be Avoided on Saturday January 02, 2016 @06:20AM (#10825861)
I feel like somewhere between the two would pass. Keep the validation as distinct functions but inline validatedItemNamed, reduceDepositedCoinsBy.
Re:Ask HN: I just got my Stackoverflow Python gold badge - is it worth... on Monday March 16, 2015 @11:16AM (#9211887)
There's a variety of things related to programming which have little, to no, obvious economic value. You might find that your achievement (very well done!) economically impacts you "in-kind". Its doubtful that an employer or prospective client will look at your Stackoverflow profile and pay you more. However, your glowing referrals from your peers to both might allow you to position yourself as more highly sought after than you _actually_ are.

TLDR; Do good things and good things will come to you. Keep being awesome :).

Re:Jsfx; js sound effect generator on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @06:31AM (#2806737)
Hit the jackpot of sound whilst playing with this ( just hit play ):

http://egonelbre.com/js/jsfx/index.html?load=%5B%22square%22... ( if thats not a fantastic teleport sound I don't know what is )

Amazing work!

Re:Octopress - A blogging framework for hackers on Sunday July 24, 2011 @12:41PM (#2799712)
I feel like I've unleashed a monster by posting this, personally I quite like the opinionated install for Jekyll especially the code plugin / view. Will be using it for my next blog install
Re:Skeleton: A Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly D... on Sunday July 17, 2011 @07:08AM (#2773071)
Been using this a lot lately, really love it thanks @dhg
Re:500k Bitcoins traded in 1h, Mt.Gox market hacked + crash on Monday June 20, 2011 @05:49AM (#2673530)
If you want to check if you've been Mt.Goxed I whipped up a little something for that

http://mtgoxed.herokuapp.com/

Ask HN: Internationalizationizing Rails from the get go?

Posted by KarlFreeman on Sunday June 19, 2011 @10:56AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm currently burning the midnight oil and working hard on a project that I'm building for myself ( my very own bootstrapped startup ) and going through the motions of whether to internationalize the whole application. I'm keen to abstract the site's copy and text away from my views but whilst doing that I'm aware that I've done a large chunk of work towards fully abstracting the language of...

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Re:London Hacker News Meetup - Thursday, 12th May on Friday May 06, 2011 @05:43AM (#2520481)
See y'all there. Nice one dmitri1981, I'll grab one of them free beers for you ;)
Re:Ask HN: Application Development on Physical Devices? on Thursday May 05, 2011 @06:02AM (#2516751)
Thanks for the link, I'll get in touch! Appreciate it

Ask HN: Application Development on Physical Devices?

Posted by KarlFreeman on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @12:48PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm looking in to starting a service in the UK based around the problem that application development for mobiles is costly if you want to test on a broad set of devices before you launch.The thought behind the concept is that the mobile Android market is diversifying a lot with phones coming in all shapes and sizes. The iOS market has big performance differences between product updates. Various...

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Re:WebGL Path Tracing on Friday April 15, 2011 @07:40AM (#2450177)
Works pretty well for me in ( Chrome, Mac ) but crashing aside its pretty damn awesome.
Re:Rails 3.1 shipping with CoffeeScript on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @12:08PM (#2442888)
Couldn't agree more with you. Good points.
Re:HireFire - The Heroku Worker Manager on Monday April 11, 2011 @12:04PM (#2433017)
Couldn't agree more. The setup time of SimpleWorker is alot ( especially when dealing with specific gems ) and the fact that for DB work you have to create a separate non concurrent connection to the DB per job makes those times you talk about a reality. Ok, you could use the 'expensive jobs' but Heroku's DJ's win hands down in all tests I've done. Plus who doesn't like the handle_asynchronously :function.
Re:HireFire - The Heroku Worker Manager on Monday April 11, 2011 @11:10AM (#2432813)
Very handy. Was looking at using http://www.simpleworker.com/ as an alternative to the uncost effective Heroku DJ's but hopefully HireFire will sway me back to using Heroku.

Sneak Peek of Future of the Flash Runtime

Posted by KarlFreeman on Monday April 11, 2011 @05:58AM
from the bytearray.org dept.

http://www.bytearray.org/?p=3007

- Faster GC : GC hint API and more. - New numeric types : float and float4 (very useful for Molehill in the future). - Concurrency : Worker threads (shared nothing model) to leverage multicore CPU's. No more UI 's blocked when doing expensive operations. - Stage3D : The API used for Molehill (that you know through the Incubator builds). - StageVideo : Allowing full GPU acceleration (decoding +...

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