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Re:The Soylent Revolution Will Not Be Pleasurable on Thursday May 29, 2014 @01:12AM (#7814857)
Almost any vegetable tastes amazing sautéed in butter with shallots and garlic. You can also add plain breadcrumbs once done. I say this having just made brussel sprouts that way for dinner. Very simple and very delicious. And I used to hate brussel sprouts.
This looks great. I've already signed up as I've been looking for a replacement for Gumroad for awhile now. Their UI just isn't suited to physical subscriptions. This looks much better.

Found an error: My login date under sessions is "Sat, Dec 30, 1899 @"

Feature request: product variants ie. shirt sizes, phone types, colors, etc.

Ask HN: First time in San Francisco. Can I visit your startup?

Hi HNers! Came to San Francisco for the first time to attend the Female Founders Conference. Flight back home to NJ was cancelled due to weather. Now I'm here with my fiancé until late tonight. I'd love to use this extra time to meet interesting people building cool things and experience a day in the life of a Silicon Valley startup. If you wouldn't mind a visitor in your office for a bit, let...

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Re:Show HN: Customizable themes for iOS on Monday December 30, 2013 @08:03PM (#6988279)
Your templates are nice and have good use of color. But why would you have the stock photo promo pics as your product images instead of the mockups? I can't decide if it comes off as gimmicky, as in you're trying to be trendy with no justification beyond that, or deceitful, as in you're hiding the product/trying to make it look better than it is. Neither could be the case but that's how I interpret it. Either way, that's not good. You're clearly a good designer; own it!

Also, your Twitter link in the footer is broken.

Re:MailChimp Annual Report on Monday December 30, 2013 @07:49PM (#6988223)
I loved this up until the end when I went to hit the back button. Clearly the last number should be 29 (or whatever it actually is but I think it's somewhere around that): the number of times you'll have to hit back to get to the last page you were on. That's always a pain. Good thing they made up for it beforehand by making such a great report.
That's much better. You're welcome.
Good for you for accomplishing and creating so much. Congrats on that. But good god, the background of your site is an eyesore. It literally hurt my eyes as I read through your list. You're going to deter a lot of people with such a bright background. Beyond that you're detracting so much attention away from your content. Feel free to completely ignore this, but I would change the background to something subtler or at least monotone if I were you. It will bring the focus back to where it belongs, your content, and it will give a far better first impression to new visitors.
Re:Ask HN: Should I get mentored by this guy? on Monday October 07, 2013 @04:09PM (#6510854)
Mentorship does not mean being reshaped in the form of your mentor, as if you are supposed to become a carbon copy of them. It means learning from someone more experienced than you in a more controlled environment. And not just learning from situations you wouldn't normally find yourself in and thus benefitting greatly from specific context, but learning from a different perspective that you can incorporate into your own. You are being given an opportunity to grow and diversify your way of thinking and executing. Embrace it.
Re:Highly customizable checkboxes and radio buttons on Sunday July 28, 2013 @02:59AM (#6115866)
These are great. Very well done. Two issues/suggestions. The checked radio button in Flat: the outer circle should either be thinner or the button should just be a circle with a hole in the middle. The checkbox in Polaris: don't have the check extend outside the box as it doesn't look consistent with the rest of the style.

Those are my suggestions. Do with them what you may.

Re:What Readers Found in Facebook’s ‘Other’ Folder on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @05:40PM (#6093100)
I agree with you. However, this was an invitation from the friend's sister, who I am not friends with (even on Facebook) and who was planning the party in secret. So Facebook was her only means of contacting me.
Re:What Readers Found in Facebook’s ‘Other’ Folder on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @04:56PM (#6092836)
Sigh. Like others posting here, I checked my other folder. I missed a message from May inviting me to a bachelorette party for a friend getting married in September. It was last month. I know this because I saw the pictures on Facebook and was saddened that I wasn't invited. Now I'm even more sad.

So thanks Facebook. You had one job: to facilitate my connections to people. And you royally screwed up and caused me to miss out on a very special day in a close friend's life that I will never be able to get back.

Re:Designer News + Hacker News = The News on Saturday July 13, 2013 @05:10PM (#6038762)
The HN side goes from 19 to 21.
Re:John Gruber and friends launch Vesper note capture app on Thursday June 06, 2013 @03:37PM (#5834679)
To attempt to answer your question of what is the opposite of flat design: I refer to it simply as detailed and minimalist. Therefore, skeumorphism would be a specific type of detailed design. Flat and minimalist are far more similar but I think flat has a more restrictive meaning. This also allows for the middle grounds of semi-detailed and semi-minimalist.
Re:The Hidden Costs of Starting a Company on Monday June 03, 2013 @12:58PM (#5814335)
It seems as if the college idiom has graduated alongside the people going on to found startups. In college it was "Good grades. A social life. Sleep. Choose two because you can't have all three." Now it's the more mature but still very similar "Startup. Significant other. Health."
Re:10 years later, ‘Star Wars Kid’ speaks out on Thursday May 09, 2013 @05:35PM (#5683108)
And then of course there is further segregation based on academic ability, which may be even worse than age segregation.
I'm not sure about Brown, but at my school we had student IDs which could also act as credit cards for "school money". Meal plans would come with a set amount of school money and you could load more on the card. This money could then be used at places around campus as well as local restaurants and grocery stores that would accept the card. Certain services (such as delivery.com which was popular in the area) also accepted school cards. So my guess is that the student IDs were simply the number associated with the credit card for using special school money.
Re:Show HN: Evernote powered website/blogging platform on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @07:55PM (#5446825)
When will custom domains be rolled out then?
Re:Sketchfab: 3D Portfolio website on Thursday March 21, 2013 @04:35PM (#5418751)
Your site and product look great. But just a heads up, under the students section you put an extra l in eligible. The padding in your search bar is also off (at least in Safari) so Search is flush against the top instead of being centered.
These programs also exist and are active in Delaware, Maine, New Jersey and New York.
But it's certainly a format which can be expanded upon and applied to the recommending of any number of things.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2013) on Friday March 01, 2013 @10:30AM (#5304711)
SEEKING WORK - Remote/NYC Area

Brand consultation: naming, brand identity, logo and web design.

email me at [email protected]

Hi all. I've spent around a year writing this book. As someone who began as a self-taught designer, I understand the struggles involved in trying to create a unique and awesome website. With this book I broke web design down into a process that is easy to execute regardless of design experience or understanding. I'd like to think of it as a web design choose your own adventure as the way you progress through the process is dependent upon your specific project. This is design-focused rather than HTML/CSS-focused. I'll be around to answer questions should anyone have any.
I feel compelled to say this as a rabbit owner; they do like celery (because they like most things) but eating too much or too large pieces can lead to digestion problems because of the strings in the celery. The more you know.

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