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Re:Ask HN: vLine won't respond, help? on Monday August 25, 2014 @06:27PM (#8224568)
Thanks! Yeah, looks like they are AWOL as you say. It is a shame, I really loved what I saw in their API, I guess i will wait a bit longer and if not response move on with other service, any suggestions?

Ask HN: vLine won't respond, help?

I'm working on the next big thing :). It is a WebRTC application, and i'm planning to use vLine.The thing is I have written vLine about 3 emails to two different adresses ( [email protected] and [email protected] ) to no answer, zero, none, they won't respond and I really need their answers so I can move on integrating with them or install my own TURN/STUN servers and do everything from...

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Re:I am not planning any nuclear attacks on Friday August 15, 2014 @12:58PM (#8183061)
hahahaha, awesome!
Re:Ask HN: What music do you listen to while programming? on Thursday August 14, 2014 @06:10PM (#8180127)
nice, will check it out!
Re:Ask HN: What music do you listen to while programming? on Thursday August 14, 2014 @06:09PM (#8180124)
haha, you know, i also listen to a lot of classical music while coding, but sometimes you just need something more...up? or not so complex...
Re:Ask HN: What music do you listen to while programming? on Thursday August 14, 2014 @06:08PM (#8180116)
yeah, techno/electronic is a common choice, right now i'm listening to Chillout, but it not always work, thanks for your input!
Re:Ask HN: What music do you listen to while programming? on Thursday August 14, 2014 @06:06PM (#8180110)
yeah, i figure haha, thanks! will check it out
Re:Fotopedia is shutting down on Thursday July 31, 2014 @12:06PM (#8114913)
As many here never heard of it before but it looks like an awesome service and looks like they have an active community, wondering what went wrong? anybody? and again what was their monetization approach? We can all learn from that.
Re:Suicidal Software Developer on Thursday June 19, 2014 @10:54PM (#7919343)
hehe, ok ok, now you are comparing meth with DMT, awesome, LOL
Re:Suicidal Software Developer on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @01:42PM (#7911468)
"drugs" ....hmmm... I assume you haven't done your homework about Ayahuasca. Shamans in south-america call it "the medicine", and the Ayahuasca ceremony is a very serious one. You can search for studies and stories (all over the internet), the reported results are usually far more helpful than any other traditional treatment. We use "drugs" every day, it is just a matter of using the right one for the right reason.
Re:Suicidal Software Developer on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @01:03PM (#7911194)
I would recommend you to grab your saved money, get a plane to south america and try Ayahuasca in the amazonian jungle, you will find purpose.
Awesome stuff, thanks! Will give it a try really soon.
Re:User Onboarding on Thursday May 15, 2014 @11:18AM (#7749922)
Thanks, this is awesome info! I passed it to my designer, he will find it even more useful.
Re:Waffle.io on Saturday April 26, 2014 @01:14PM (#7652073)
Awesome!! It remains me the UI of Trello boards which is pretty cool IMHO
Postman is a great tool, i cant imagine developing applications nowadays without it.
Re:Ask HN: Why HN is so ugly? on Saturday April 19, 2014 @06:41PM (#7615011)
As long as you can sleep well ...
Re:Ask HN: Why HN is so ugly? on Saturday April 19, 2014 @06:24PM (#7614944)
2. Agreed, so we leave the numbers along, but some spacing won't harm.

3. Right, not always, but in this case i think it will, things will get more readable.

4. Well, i think the current colors doesn't make the site specially readable, not that it makes it unreadable, just that it doesn't specially help with readability.

7. In my experience if you put a lot of content on top of each other with almost no spacing people will just get lost, luckily HN's audience is not the common folk, but does that justifies this?

8. I don't think adding a character counter or just a message letting you know will overflow the cognitive load, and the user hitting submit to find it out is just wrong IMHO.

9. Hmm, tables are the tables of HTML, <ul> and <ol> are lists of HTML.

Re:Ask HN: Why HN is so ugly? on Saturday April 19, 2014 @06:24PM (#7614941)
Right, we all have done crawling and scraping, I even have my own framework build for it, man do I love that stuff... but if you think that's the right way to go about it we are just not in the same page.

I understand you like HN as it is, and i guess an idea would be to have optional themes, that will be more democratic.

Re:Ask HN: Why HN is so ugly? on Saturday April 19, 2014 @02:55PM (#7614318)
> "Then write your own style sheets and GreaseMonkey script (or equivalent) to fix your rendered"

Have you seen the HN HTML layout and CSS code?

I'm doing some research on previous posts regarding the HN interface, but judging by some answers i'm getting in this post i can imagine their fate, why plainly criticize instead of brainstorming about the proposed ideas and trying to get to a common ground? Maybe even some sketches done? (I'm working on mine as i write btw) ... according to you what are the aims and audience? I think you are implying you know the aims and audience better? can you please share? I'm part of the audience as well...

Re:Ask HN: Why HN is so ugly? on Saturday April 19, 2014 @02:39PM (#7614254)
Sorry, it wasnt my intention to be presumptuous, just wanted to get your attention and looks like i have, so mission accomplished! :) I understand minimalism is a feature and actually is one feature i love, as you can see i'm not proposing getting rid of the minimalistic look and adding lots of easter bunnies everywhere or anything, i'm just focusing on readability and the most basic things, wouldn't you agree HN can benefit from this?
Re:Ask HN: Why HN is so ugly? on Saturday April 19, 2014 @02:28PM (#7614216)
Thanks for your reply, I just fixed the formatting of my question, still think that patching with more newlines is uncool though. Also, mine is more a proposal than a question...
Re:Ask HN: Why HN is so ugly? on Saturday April 19, 2014 @02:15PM (#7614171)
ooops, and what about the auto-formatting of the posts? look how all my newlines were removed :| I know, i guess i could have used some HTML tags there, but really?

Ask HN: Why HN is so ugly?

I'm a web developer and UI/UX "adventurer". I understand the idea behind the HN's UI is simplicity and that's cool, but, sometimes too simple is too simple. I wake up every morning to HN and my eyes hurt. Let me just mention a few things I notice so you see what I mean:1. Leverage Mobile: See HN in your mobile, can you read it to me please?2. Padding: Look at the numbers to the left (numbers...

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