Hacker News: Vindexus

New comment by Vindexus in "Sleepwalking into censorship"

Vindexus — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 07:28:13 +0000

Was this post not linked to Wired just a few minutes ago?

New comment by Vindexus in "Show HN: Pantastic"

Vindexus — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:27:50 +0000

The "What is Pantastic?" section doesn't really answer the question. Those three points could be applied to almost any decorative item sold online; they don't tell me that you print panoramas that I upload.

I'd also really like some pictures of the finished product.

New comment by Vindexus in "20 lines of code that beat A/B testing every time"

Vindexus — Tue, 29 May 2012 22:39:27 +0000

"But the only way this testing method is superior (at least as explained in the article) is that it automatically adjusts itself."

That's actually very useful for me though. Especially if a site has a lot of tests, or I'm running tests for a multitude of clients. It means I have to babysit the tests less frequently.

New comment by Vindexus in "Peter Thiel: "I Don’t Consider [The iPhone] To Be A Technological Breakthrough""

Vindexus — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:31:00 +0000

According to Guns, Germs and Steel, necessity is not the mother of invention. In fact the opposite is true: inventions appear when the needs of the inventors are already met.

I really recommend the book, it's a great read.

New comment by Vindexus in "Show HN: HourlyPuppy"

Vindexus — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:09:32 +0000

Maybe have it send them a daily email with links and thumbnails of the past 24 puppies.

New comment by Vindexus in "Bootstrapping Design"

Vindexus — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:22:31 +0000

As a developer I often struggle with the following things:

Picking a color scheme. What colors work well together? Why do they work well together? How do I find good color schemes? Is there a formula or something?

White space. How much should I have? I normally just operate in increments of 5px until I think something looks good. "Looks good" ends up being smaller than other sites when I actually compare though.

Font choices and colors. I always just use arial for body text and I'm fine with that. My headers always look very bland though. What fonts compliment what? Should my headers be darker or lighter than my body text?

Gradients and box shadows. I know they can look nice and I know some people do it well, but whenever I add this kind of stuff to my graphics I think it looks corny.

Those are some things I find frustrating when designing.

New comment by Vindexus in "Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?"

Vindexus — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 06:51:40 +0000

Pretty cool. I didn't really get it at first and was about to leave before I saw the "Watch a Video" link at the bottom. I'd probably make that stand out a bit more.

New comment by Vindexus in "Ask HN: What's your most-used function that you wrote yourself?"

Vindexus — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:28:49 +0000

Probably this one, which I use for testing

    function becho($value, $key = NULL)
    {
        echo '
' . (NULL != $key ? $key . ' = ' : '') . $value . '';
    }

I also like this one

    function s($num)
    {
         return $num == 1 ? '' : 's';
    }

Which I use like

    echo 'Showing ' . $results . ' result' . s($results) . '.';

New comment by Vindexus in "Team17: Your Game Could Be an App Store Hit with One Small Change"

Vindexus — Tue, 17 May 2011 17:29:24 +0000

No. The use of a colon instead of a comma probably added to the confusion.

New comment by Vindexus in "My webapp: Guitar tabs as they should be"

Vindexus — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:31:27 +0000

Consider putting a down arrow next to "last.fm" to show that it's a dropdown option. I had no idea until I read this comment.

Gordon Freeman vs Master Chief Charity Drive

Vindexus — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:53:01 +0000

Article URL: http://newgamesninja.com/gordonfreeman-vs-masterchief-charity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1919414

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Vindexus in "ShoutKey - Temporary URL Shortener by jazzychad"

Vindexus — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:31:01 +0000

Cool stuff. How are you grabbing the words? Did you download a dictionary?

When I submitted my URL I got "constituent", which seems unnecessarily long. You should consider having a list of short adjectives and a list of short words, preferably with both being one syllable. Then you grab one from each and you get short URLs that are still easy to remember like "redbear" or "fastbulb". The best part about this idea is that it reminds me of the monster names in Diablo 2.

New comment by Vindexus in "Ask HN: Who uses Google Alerts and what for?"

Vindexus — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:24:51 +0000

I built it myself using CodeIgniter.

New comment by Vindexus in "Ask HN: Who uses Google Alerts and what for?"

Vindexus — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:00:51 +0000

I use it to hear about when people mention the Vagina Game. This normally happens on blogs and message boards so it's easy for me to swoop in and comment with a "I made a website for this".

New comment by Vindexus in "Show HN: A new book notification service I just launched"

Vindexus — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:34:17 +0000

Cool stuff. How are you getting the data on new books? Do you have a cron job that uses Amazon's API to search for new books? I'm not really familiar with their API so I'm not sure if that makes sense.

Are the categories grabbed from Amazon too?

New comment by Vindexus in "Our hackday project: Readshout.com"

Vindexus — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:20:50 +0000

Request: include a title attribute on links that has the full article title. That way when something gets shortened and has the ellipsis at the end I can just hover over the link to read the whole thing.

New comment by Vindexus in "The Best Email I've Ever Received"

Vindexus — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:58:13 +0000

I'd like to have some context for what he's saying, what's wrong with that?

New comment by Vindexus in "The Best Email I've Ever Received"

Vindexus — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:19:20 +0000

Could someone explain what jacquesm means by this?

New comment by Vindexus in "Ask HN: Did you ever do anything unethical to get your startup off the ground?"

Vindexus — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:08:12 +0000

Then what? Posted comments pointing to ThatHigh.com I'm guessing. Did you just put the link or did you say something like "Sounds like something from thathigh.com"? Did they eventually get removed as spam?

New comment by Vindexus in "If you can't find 10 people who say they'll buy it..."

Vindexus — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:36:18 +0000

Go ahead, link to your event. You've got me curious and you know you want to.