doublesprout

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by doublesprout 15y ago
Why hasn't Dropbox extended its main service with something like this yet? Incredibly simple apps like puu.sh and Skitch have taken off as separate apps and there has been a scattering of Dropbox-integrated third party tools, which I typica
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by doublesprout 15y ago
Also to build up credibility as a developer. My concern as a student is that there isn't a huge community of other open source developers around - so by working on these projects, I'm missing out on the chance to build something with a fell
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by doublesprout 15y ago
I understand why they wouldn't want to serve ads on Wikipedia, but isn't it a bit hypocritical to say the choice is so they can maintain editorial independence? Because for someone who wanted to influence the foundation, donations are proba
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by doublesprout 15y ago
It's not immediately obvious from the label what the button does, but it is from experimentation. And unlike the multistep 'cut' or 'paste' buttons or 'move to' (which pops up a dialog, I think?), the discovery process for a user is one cli
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by doublesprout 15y ago
Summaries are not necessarily crap and people need some way to tell if what they're going to read is worth their time. In reality, all this script does is make it easier for people to filter for what they want to read.
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by doublesprout 15y ago
There really isn't a way to learn hotkeys other than searching for them and practicing, and people expect computers to be intuitive so much that they never do that. I wonder how many people aren't consciously aware of how much faster they c
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Ask HN: How did you name your last startup/app?
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by doublesprout 15y ago
Every time someone makes a 'society thinks' post, I mentally replace those words with 'you think'. And then I make mental self-corrections. I didn't find much to correct for, though. You can't look for the opposite of narcissism to recogniz
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by doublesprout 15y ago
I'm guessing you're still in Nepal. Focus on a market you know well and look for provable business models - it'll be easy to narrow down your ideas. Also, I wouldn't be ashamed of cloning something from somewhere else and bringing it to you
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by doublesprout 15y ago
Dreamweaver required you to know quite a bit about HTML. Muse is like InDesign/Photoshop, which people use to do mockups of designs (not UIs/wireframes) today. It cuts translation to code from the workflow. That's a meaningful shortening of
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by doublesprout 15y ago
"don't know how to start putting them together to make something that works"...try a Github search? Design patterns is a great next step, but it sounds like you're not quite there yet. Something intermediate-level like Dive Into Python will
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by doublesprout 15y ago
Not to hijack the post, but this sounds like something I'm interested in. If OP is swamped, would you mind dropping a line? dblsprout@gmail.com
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by doublesprout 15y ago
Why not commit yourself to a project instead? It might be possible to learn work ethic from, say, the military, but college is unstructured enough that you have to push yourself through it, unless your peers are working as hard as you are.