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by k7d 1y ago
That’s just not true. I’m from Europe but lived in Boulder for several years. For example this shooting (1) happened 5 min walking distance from my home. My kids’ school had several lockdowns due to gun-related stuff in the neighborhood. So
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by k7d 7y ago
You can pan by holding down Space key (and then use mouse to drag the board). In general Whimsical's UX patterns are quite similar to Figma, Sketch and other UI design tools.
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by k7d 7y ago
(co-founder of Whimsical here) Thanks for the mention! Couple fun facts - Whimsical is written 100% in Clojure and we are self-funded ( https://whimsical.com/business/why-bootstrap/ ).
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by k7d 8y ago
Thanks for the mention! We built Whimsical for a simple reason - all the existing diagramming apps had poor UX. It didn't feel like any of them were really optimized to visualize ideas as quickly as possible while make the result look
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by k7d 8y ago
Similar story here - started with DraftJS but it was kind of cumbersome. Slate in comparison is much more flexible and we've been using it in production for almost a year now. In fact we just launched a sticky notes project management
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Why we chose to bootstrap our business(whimsical.co)
3 points by k7d 8y ago|0 comments
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Doing more than one thing – a product strategy lesson from Intercom(whimsical.co)
1 points by k7d 9y ago|0 comments
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by k7d 9y ago
It's an extension to re-frame that we built. It addresses some of the (subjective) shortcomings of re-frame, mainly the over-reliance on keywords. We'll be open-sourcing it soon.
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by k7d 9y ago
Indeed, most of the application logic is in client side. In fact it's built in a way that it could function as a standalone application without backend. Currently it doesn't persist the data locally but that could be easily added.
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by k7d 9y ago
We use combination of Redis pub/sub and Websockets. Each document has a unique key and whenever any of the users/clients make a change to it, it's published via that key. Other clients connect via WebSockets to backend and su
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How we built our startup (it's all about balance)(whimsical.co)
17 points by k7d 9y ago|6 comments
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Refactor or Fail – How We Rebuilt FullContact from the Ground Up(medium.com)
11 points by k7d 12y ago|0 comments
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by k7d 13y ago
HackFwd was one of the rare accelerators that was actually pushing the envelope instead of being copycats. Besides they had another rare trait in this space - integrity and deep commitment to companies they fund (disclaimer - I'm the f
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by k7d 14y ago
Actually we did an extended A/B testing on this and video only version outperformed the one with text and illustrations.
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Show HN: Cobook, the smart address book(cobookapp.com)
14 points by k7d 14y ago|12 comments
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by k7d 15y ago
> I loathe seeing *.html in urls and that's the only thing you can do with S3 root object You can configure name of index file, and that will be displayed for requests against root URL and subdirectories (such as blog posts) as well. No
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by k7d 15y ago
Exactly, the best interface for kitchen-ware is physical knobs. I hate all those touch-surface buttons that usually come integrated on stoves like this. They have no feedback and they fail to react more often than they do.
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by k7d 15y ago
So you can get a relatively high-end induction stove from AEG for $1000 with a similarly minimalist design. Um, $3000 for touch screen?
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by k7d 15y ago
We are building something exactly like that (native for mac first). You can sign-up for beta here: http://www.cobookapp.com
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by k7d 15y ago
Most enterprises have a very strong culture of maintaining status quo as extensively as possible. Especially in IT departments. Even big software enterprises rely on 5-10 year old infrastructure software (such as Exchange 2003) which was re
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by k7d 15y ago
5000 tasks per day is of course far from limit. we used to build Mysql queues that process close to 100 tasks per second.
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by k7d 15y ago
The article didn't mention the main advantage of storing queues in DB - transactions. Say you need to update other records in DB while processing a job with 100% consistency. If it's all in the same DB you can update both job as well as dat
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by k7d 15y ago
+1 for kneeling chairs. I've Varier Gravity Balans http://www.varierfurniture.com/Collections/Human-instruments... and it totally rocks once you get used to it.
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Update on Move(rsms.me)
5 points by k7d 15y ago|2 comments
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by k7d 15y ago
You are right. I just spent 25 min on a phone with them and I'm pretty much were I was. Hoping it will get escalated now... ps. I could use Skype for cheaper calls but they are not very reliable. I have been using Skype for conf calls for a
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by k7d 15y ago
What do you mean by "author say t it's pointless to wait for the financial information to clear"? I'm not sure I said anything like that. ps. yes of course it's slightly emotional, we are just humans
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by k7d 15y ago
Ok turns out the support phone numbers were well hidden http://developer.apple.com/contact/phone.html
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by k7d 15y ago
Ok I'm feeling slightly stupid now but I couldn't locate dev support phone # anywhere http://developer.apple.com/support/ Also, I don't think it's very clever to make cheaper support channels (email) so bad that the only option is the pho
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Is Apple's developer support a joke?(kaspa.rs)
34 points by k7d 15y ago|30 comments
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Long awaited TwUI (ABUIKit) framework by Loren Brichter/Twitter is here(github.com)
2 points by k7d 15y ago|0 comments

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