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+1 I like these suggestions given that I was expecting the exact things :)
Yes. A demo would be really nice!
Re:Show HN: Invest Your Money In What Matters to You on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @02:01PM (#7874229)
I looked at the site and liked the design though I agree with the rest of the comments here about SSL etc. One basic question I have is why did you choose Motif as against others such as TradeKing or AmeriTrade or E-Trade. Any particular reason for that?
Re:Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday on Saturday April 26, 2014 @06:45PM (#7653044)
Amazing concept! :) Good luck with the game.
Re:Microservices on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @01:33AM (#7384155)
I am also interested in knowing an answer to this. In these designs, I often see people ignoring network costs. Can someone with practical experience comment on this aspect?
Re:Popcorn Time Is So Good at Movie Piracy, It’s Scary on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @02:29PM (#7381189)
Reminds me of a work on detecting copyright monitors. Read the introduction part to understand the risks of using torrents to stream movies.

https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/fahmy/papers/PAM2011.pdf

Re:Depixelizing Pixel Art on Thursday February 27, 2014 @12:25AM (#7310540)
This seems pretty awesome. Can someone please tell me where this could be useful?
I am still a student so donated $50. I know its not much but neverthless.

PHP is the first language that I ever learnt and it has had a great influence on my life. Thank you for everything you've done Richard. Please spend the rest of your days peacefully.

Re:Godot Engine open sourced on Monday February 10, 2014 @09:46PM (#7215409)
+1 Superb! I was not aware of this at all! Thank you so much.
Re:Godot Engine open sourced on Monday February 10, 2014 @08:40PM (#7215122)
+1 Excellent suggestions. Thank you for taking the time to write this! :) I'll start with Blender and see where things go. Really appreciate it.
Re:Godot Engine open sourced on Monday February 10, 2014 @01:40PM (#7212785)
Sorry! Made an edit to my post. I wanted to ask if there was a cheaper way to learn game programming than investing so much in Unity upfront. Thanks for the pointers anyways.
Re:Godot Engine open sourced on Monday February 10, 2014 @12:35PM (#7212312)
Any suggestions on where to start with the artwork for a complete newbie? I'm very interested in game programming but the artwork has somewhat discouraged me for quite a bit.
Re:Godot Engine open sourced on Monday February 10, 2014 @12:29PM (#7212269)
I have never done game programming. Can anyone recommend whether it is easier to pick this up compared to Unity? Also, isn't Unity expensive [edit: for a newbie]?
Looks very nice! Neatly executed. Here are a couple of quick observations/suggestions. I am not a UX designer so most of these are from my personal perspective.

- When I click on PS3/XBox 360/Wii, the page scrolls down and that's fine. However, it would be great to put a "Top" button somewhere to take the user back or ideally, make the "item" band containing Tablets, PS3, XBox 360... stick to the top.

- That brings me to my second point: This type of design is not scalable unless you are planning on supporting only Tablets, PS3s... See what I am saying?

- When I first visit your site, I would love to see you auto-detect my location instead of waiting for me to select one. See here for an example: http://html5demos.com/geo

- Too much space is wasted for each item cell. You can easily have two categories next to each other if the space permits. Think of making it resposive, for instance.

- What is the intuition behind the purchase/selling mechanism? Are you designing around some auction schemes? When I want to sell something, it does not ask me for a price. When I want to buy something, it is asking me for a price. So this seems closer to an auction mechanism than any other regular kind of a purchase. Why not explore mechanisms where you can let the seller specify a minimum amount he is willing to accept? This way you can eliminate spammy customers who are trying to purchase an iPad for $1 :)

That's all for now. Keep up the great work!

Re:Started a stupid company. Failed. on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @10:36PM (#6806151)
Fan of your work... now an even bigger fan! :) Thank you making this world a better place.
Re:Ask HN: I need some help with an investing-based startup on Monday November 18, 2013 @05:02PM (#6757432)
Looks cool. Just subscribed to it. Thanks for the tip.
Re:Ask HN: I need some help with an investing-based startup on Monday November 18, 2013 @04:01PM (#6756983)
Definitely looks interesting. Can you also elaborate on how you came across this startup? Were you googling around for something related or did you hear this through a friend?
Re:Ask HN: I need some help with an investing-based startup on Monday November 18, 2013 @04:00PM (#6756975)
This is an excellent and a very interesting post. Thank you for sharing!

Ask HN: I need some help with an investing-based startup

My friend is working on a product focused on investing. He has been looking for guidance all over and I told him I would get some feedback from the HN community. This is what he emailed me. Any feedback is greatly appreciated. I would be happy to ask him for any other information that might be needed.""" My interest in finance started when I saved up $5000. I wanted to invest it and approached...

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Re:Show HN: Prototype for new online learning app on Sunday November 17, 2013 @11:35PM (#6752556)
I really like the look of this. Can you describe more about your long-term goals with this? What is your intended market?
Re:How to bring back Chrome's old New Tab page on Saturday September 28, 2013 @05:27PM (#6463213)
I thought the new tab page was really making Chrome slow so found this trick on CNET.

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