Hacker News: wanderful

New comment by wanderful in "AI Horseless Carriages"

wanderful — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 01:15:00 +0000

I see the horseless carriage as part of the evolutionary product journey to what is now known as the car, from the horse-drawn carriage to the horseless carriage, to early automobiles, to now.

I would take your statement further than unfair and say the analogy is inaccurate and confused about how products evolve over time.

The article itself shows only an incremental improvement on the UI by exposing a system prompt, rather than reaching for the modern car from the era of the first horseless carriages.

Momentum: Customize Your Momentum Experience

wanderful — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:09:00 +0000

Article URL: http://momentumdash.com/blog/customize-and-search

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8602986

Points: 2

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New comment by wanderful in "Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other"

wanderful — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:37:49 +0000

So you manage outsourcing? Might I recommend saying that? I've noticed throughout the comments that you tend toward drawn out explanations. Make it simple and then people will fill in the missing details. If they miss a few, no worries, because they get the gist. You don't need to give them all of the details up front, because that makes it complex, hard to understand and boring. Try and fill in as many details as you can with imagery and the structure of the site.

New comment by wanderful in "Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other"

wanderful — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:37:04 +0000

Take screenshots or print the pages. They don't need to look at the code to review the copy. Change the mindset to look for solutions rather than problems.

New comment by wanderful in "Facebook closes at $38.23 first day NASDAQ trading, above IPO price $38.00"

wanderful — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:30:33 +0000

The question for many investors isn't in the current figures so much as what are the future figures likely to be and how that compares to the current figures.

New comment by wanderful in "YC Facelift: Flutter"

wanderful — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 06:43:21 +0000

"Wave hello to the future" also captures the connotation of welcoming to the future, as well as providing a more concrete indication of what the app does. I think one of the biggest challenges with copywriting is hitting all of those notes at once, the visionary, the concrete, the solution, the problem, etc. And like other forms of art, some pieces just come together better than others.

New comment by wanderful in "PHP Sucks But I Like It"

wanderful — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:16:11 +0000

Not necessarily. Popularity makes something more likely to be exploited. Compare PCs to Macs re: viruses. Also, many security issues were due to conventions in early versions of the language, e.g. register globals.

New comment by wanderful in "Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repurchase Program"

wanderful — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:35:32 +0000

A company? We're talking about Apple. I doubt Steve Jobs would have been caught dead saying that about Apple, and I hope that culture is continuing with Apple. Apple employees, notably Ives, have said over and over that their #1 goal is to create .

New comment by wanderful in "Great, Another Bootstrap Site"

wanderful — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:19:04 +0000

Ironically, the author appears to borrow quite heavily from Dustin Curtis:

Layout: http://dcurt.is/

Transparent border: http://blog.dustincurtis.com/the-dcurtis-manifesto

New comment by wanderful in "The cause for all your Mac OS X mouse annoyances"

wanderful — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:48:43 +0000

Couple curiosity questions: Which system did you start using? Also, have you done any activities requiring high precision at fine detail, such as gaming or design?

New comment by wanderful in "Khan Academy: It’s Different This Time"

wanderful — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:58:09 +0000

And not to mention, kids love games! If fun and play makes things more engaging, and we learn better when engaged, why not make school more fun?

New comment by wanderful in "Microsoft launches an HTML5 version of Cut the Rope"

wanderful — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:08:09 +0000

In the video they talk of profiling it in IE — maybe it wasn't profiled and improved in other OSes/browsers.

New comment by wanderful in "Asynchronous UIs - the future of web user interfaces"

wanderful — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:39:40 +0000

I wouldn't say he's saying spending less time on them. He's saying that they are the exception, so don't make the whole interface depend on the possibility of them. Proceed assuming the optimal case and when they do happen, provide a safe, friendly means of dealing with them.

New comment by wanderful in "Nest - The Learning Thermostat"

wanderful — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:35:25 +0000

Consumers have shown that they are willing to pay a premium for a well designed user experience. Problem is, Apple doesn't have much competition.

New comment by wanderful in "Bitcoin value falls from above $33 to below $3"

wanderful — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 06:03:32 +0000

I'm curious, how have you found the currency value volatility for buying and selling goods and services?

I envision a bitcoin meme: 0% fees, 1000% volatility :)

New comment by wanderful in "16% of the queries on Google each day are brand new (never seen before)"

wanderful — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:55:34 +0000

"Creeping SEOization" could also be stated as keyword space filling up—a natural effect of the web growing—so queries are getting more specific.

Another possible factor is that users are becoming more savvy search users, or even trusting that they will get meaningful results for novel queries (e.g. Vietnamese Restaurants in Saskatoon).

New comment by wanderful in "SpaceX is Building a Vertical Take of and Landing, Reusable Launch Vehicle"

wanderful — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:28:28 +0000

If both are using VTOL, one for a small object, one for a large, how is it all that different?

New comment by wanderful in "SpaceX is Building a Vertical Take of and Landing, Reusable Launch Vehicle"

wanderful — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:30:51 +0000

Does anyone know how this compares to Armadillo Airspace's VTOL technology, and what Armadillo's long term strategy is for its technology?

New comment by wanderful in "13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence"

wanderful — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:41:09 +0000

Wouldn't "rough" equate to more leaves at more angles, which in a way confirms his hypothesis?

New comment by wanderful in "Judge Finds Apple in Violation of HTC's Newly Acquired Patents"

wanderful — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:07:14 +0000

It's very much like saying that, which doesn't mean it's not persuasive reasoning. It may not be ultimately rational reasoning, but it appeals to many people. That's why it's called the sunk cost fallacy. :)