Hacker News: namwen

New comment by namwen in "Show HN: An Image Licensing Platform just for Instagram (example profile)"

namwen — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 16:11:01 +0000

This is a great idea. There's a lot of possibilities in tools/services which allow creators to monetize easily. Do you think there is an opportunity to allow sharing outside of Instagram? I.e licensing photos for use in articles, blogs, etc? Or is part of the advantage here that Instagram is a walled garden of sorts, where it's more difficult to steal a user's image?

New comment by namwen in "RedditStorage"

namwen — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 22:42:52 +0000

Yeah, I wrote something that stores data to Flickr last summer: https://github.com/namwen/hoardr . I kind of had a reason but it was more for the enjoyment of getting it to work.

New comment by namwen in "Moog Schematics"

namwen — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 03:10:55 +0000

When I was younger, one of my dad's best friends was a hacker / electrical engineer who worked primarily with Moogs. He would service Moogs for very well known musicians if they were in the area, but was more well known for his modifications. I remember one story my dad would tell about some new keyboard they released, and within a few days he had modified it to makes hundreds more sounds than it was already capable of. Cool guy.

New comment by namwen in "Announcing Soylent 1.2"

namwen — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:25:52 +0000

21 meals is supposed to be a weeks supply.

New comment by namwen in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2014)"

namwen — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 00:14:34 +0000

Are you at all considering hiring interns for the upcoming summer?

New comment by namwen in "Dear Spike Lee"

namwen — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 21:42:54 +0000

Seems to be entirely different photography from the comps to the finals.

New comment by namwen in "Bitcoin Reaches 1000 USD"

namwen — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:00:09 +0000

I believe it has to do with the likelihood that you'll be able to sell? Some exchanges have a lot more users.

New comment by namwen in "Welcome, Freshmen. You Don't Deserve to Be Here"

namwen — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:10:26 +0000

Not a freshman but a transfer student. I'm absolutely taking it again as soon as possible. In the meantime I'm going to keep attending the lectures for no credit and learn on my own through Khan Academy. I'm actually confident I can complete the course fine, but I was distracted with other things when the course started and missed some important grades. Thanks for the advice.

New comment by namwen in "Welcome, Freshmen. You Don't Deserve to Be Here"

namwen — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:25:15 +0000

This is the exact reason I dropped Calc this semester. My math background already sucks and I fucked up early and fell behind fast. Makes more sense to not fail and learn on my own before trying again.

New comment by namwen in "Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1"

namwen — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:54:03 +0000

"Today, some $29. 6 billion in smartphone cases are sold every year."

Really? No way. I'd be amazed if this was a correct figure.

New comment by namwen in "From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months"

namwen — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:11:27 +0000

If you read further you'll see that as of now they've handled over 700k in transactions.

New comment by namwen in "Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails?"

namwen — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:10:56 +0000

Yeah, I've visited websites for years that I felt were very well designed in regards to being open and having a nice amount of whitespace. Seeing the same site on someone else's computer is a bit heartbreaking.

New comment by namwen in "Show HN: Learn about a new country every day (my side project)"

namwen — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 00:26:11 +0000

I had an idea for something similar awhile back. I love learning about places I haven't been before and I especially enjoy looking at those places on a map.

I'll have to play with it more before I can give you any feedback.

New comment by namwen in "Show HN: Learn about a new country every day (my side project)"

namwen — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 00:20:51 +0000

I'm sure you could manage to put something together with Google Images. Perhaps you could even do something with the images Google has tied in with areas on Google Maps.

New comment by namwen in "The Register puts Soylent to the test"

namwen — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:31:29 +0000

I still don't buy into this being a real product. Everything about it is far too generic and uniformed. "It comes in a large unmarked baggy". Really? No. This can't be true.

New comment by namwen in "Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM"

namwen — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 23:44:13 +0000

Could you explain what exactly that is?

New comment by namwen in "Sell HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?"

namwen — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 15:25:42 +0000

I really like this idea and signed up for an account. There's something wrong with your confirmation email message. The link I am pointed to clicking is "/confirm/longstringofcharacters", which is neither a link or functioning path when appended to rankique.com.

Definitely come up with a better name. I'm not sure how it's supposed to be pronounced, which makes memorization and spelling even more difficult. Good Luck!

New comment by namwen in "Soylent Campaign"

namwen — Wed, 22 May 2013 02:29:58 +0000

Yeah, I'm dumbfounded in more ways than one. Here we have a group of young guys supposedly selling a mysterious powder with no ingredients under the name Soylent of all things. Then I come to the comments and virtually no one has questioned this product as even being real and is instead arguing over whether it's a viable business / safe.

New comment by namwen in "Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space"

namwen — Tue, 21 May 2013 03:01:51 +0000

I have to agree with you. I only post my "Art" photography on flickr and all the people I follow do the same. Seeing this huge mashup of all the varying styles and works together is really terrible. It's just not a nice way of presenting photography.

New comment by namwen in "Startups That Rejected $100M Offers"

namwen — Thu, 02 May 2013 17:49:35 +0000

It's pretty incredible. I can't imagine many 22 year olds turning down one hundred million, let alone one billion.