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Fitbit Joins Google

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github.com 7y ago

Open Sourcing .Net for Apache Spark

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ds9a.nl 12y ago

DNA seen through the eyes of a coder

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www.storiesforyourscreen.com 12y ago

Annie96 is typing...

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www.usatoday.com 12y ago

Purdue University Shooting: One dead, one arrested

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www.cnbc.com 12y ago

Meet the $1,250-an-hour tutor

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: I need some help with an investing-based startup

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www.fastcolabs.com 12y ago

How To Use MySQL With Meteor [NodeJS]

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research.microsoft.com 12y ago

Microsoft Research Publications

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howto.cnet.com 12y ago

How to bring back Chrome's old New Tab page

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: What messaging app do you use in your startup?

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: Anyone remembers the Google-thriller story?

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: Any examples of business cards?

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Who is a hacker anyways in today's context?

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simtk.org 14y ago

Stanford's Open Source Human Motion Software

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Large dataset visualization through Javascript?

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news.sciencemag.org 14y ago

Secret Messaging Using Bacteria

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us.battle.net 14y ago

The Diablo III Beta Is Now Live

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Idea Incubators? Or this: "I need some ideas"

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stats.stackexchange.com 14y ago

If mean is so sensitive, why use it in the first place?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Any entrepreneurs on HN who launched themselves from a F1 or H1B VISA?

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I looked at the site and liked the design though I agree with the rest of the comments here about SSL etc. One basic question I have is why did you choose Motif as against others such as TradeKing or AmeriTrade or E-Trade. Any particular reason for that?

Microservices 12 years ago

I am also interested in knowing an answer to this. In these designs, I often see people ignoring network costs. Can someone with practical experience comment on this aspect?

+1 Excellent suggestions. Thank you for taking the time to write this! :) I'll start with Blender and see where things go. Really appreciate it.

Sorry! Made an edit to my post. I wanted to ask if there was a cheaper way to learn game programming than investing so much in Unity upfront. Thanks for the pointers anyways.

Any suggestions on where to start with the artwork for a complete newbie? I'm very interested in game programming but the artwork has somewhat discouraged me for quite a bit.

I have never done game programming. Can anyone recommend whether it is easier to pick this up compared to Unity? Also, isn't Unity expensive [edit: for a newbie]?

Looks very nice! Neatly executed. Here are a couple of quick observations/suggestions. I am not a UX designer so most of these are from my personal perspective.

- When I click on PS3/XBox 360/Wii, the page scrolls down and that's fine. However, it would be great to put a "Top" button somewhere to take the user back or ideally, make the "item" band containing Tablets, PS3, XBox 360... stick to the top.

- That brings me to my second point: This type of design is not scalable unless you are planning on supporting only Tablets, PS3s... See what I am saying?

- When I first visit your site, I would love to see you auto-detect my location instead of waiting for me to select one. See here for an example: http://html5demos.com/geo

- Too much space is wasted for each item cell. You can easily have two categories next to each other if the space permits. Think of making it resposive, for instance.

- What is the intuition behind the purchase/selling mechanism? Are you designing around some auction schemes? When I want to sell something, it does not ask me for a price. When I want to buy something, it is asking me for a price. So this seems closer to an auction mechanism than any other regular kind of a purchase. Why not explore mechanisms where you can let the seller specify a minimum amount he is willing to accept? This way you can eliminate spammy customers who are trying to purchase an iPad for $1 :)

That's all for now. Keep up the great work!