Very nice. I would suggest adding url support to be able to go back and forth between slides (using browser's back/fwd button), emailing dirct link to certain slides, etc.
I love this - wish we had this when I studied at Tech (BS+MS in ECE, over a decade ago). I'm now working on my own startup (outside the US), and was actually thinking to try and meet up with investors in Atlanta. As others mentioned in this thread, ATL is a great city to live in - perhaps it's not as hyped as SF or NYC, but I enjoyed my time there and would love to come back one day. Keep up the good work!
I love firefox and use it daily on all platforms. What bothers me a bit (just a bit) about the design is that only on linux the menu bar row sticks out [1], while on Windows or Mac they were able to collapse it or hide it quite well. I suppose this is due to the GUI implementation constraints on the platform, but it is still very noticable when I switch from my mac to ubuntu.
Upvote, beacuse I see myself as a descent programmer and my github account has been idle for ages.
Not to mention that holding a full time job and my wanting to spend time with my wife and kid leave very little time to maintain a blog (which I don't) or contribute to OSS (as much as I can, but next to nothing compared to other readers of this site).
I have mixed feelings about what to take away from this article. We actually rely exclusively on SVG in the startup I work at, so it's nice to see this topic getting some love. Then again, the lack of serious support, especially in mobile browsers (no mention of SVG not really being supported that well on iOS 4 or lower) means we have to carefully pick our battles or perhaps rethink our stack. Sad.
Very nice, though a couple of things immediately jump out:
First, no https. I think it's something you owe your less technical users.
Second - no non-social way to sign up. Personally, I find it annoying when I can't use simple email/username+password login. I don't really want to give up my entire social graph+data just to try something out. I realize this might be necessary for your business model, but you can offer me the option to add my social data later on, and I will if I like your service.
That is awesome, thanks for sharing. I'm very interested, as I'm sure many others are, to hear about the tools you've used and the development process. Great app!
I get at most 6 hours on weekdays, and even that's not continuous (I have a baby). On the weekends I do 7-8, if I'm lucky - babies don't know what day it is :)
I've been used to getting very little sleep since I was a kid, so I don't feel like it's affecting my work. I typically work-out before work, so that definitely helps starting my day off on a positive note.
Congrats on the milestone to those involved - it's great to have something like this available to everyone for free.
On a side note, and not to take anything away from the H-team, I'm pretty curious on how it compares to Google's GFS and the rest of their distributed computing stack (MR, Chubby, etc.). It would be sweet if Google released some or all of these some day.
Up-vote, because it's a great idea for any language/tool out there. I happen to know ruby, but taking the first steps in anything is difficult, and usually involves looking up a lot of the things you already know from a more familiar place (setting up, using libs, etc). I'd really love to see a community resource like this - perhaps I'll start working on one :)
I agree - I've been in a similar situation where I inherited a huge chunk of Python code that worked great and played a very significant role in our product's core, but was horrific to understand or maintain (in Python, of all things!).
I stuck with it for the past 1.5 years and finally got the green light to rewrite it from scratch. Because I worked so hard to figure out what the hell was going on for so long, the actual coding from scratch took less than a month. Bottom line - if you're being paid well, like the environment and think the company has potential and that you have room to grow there, give it some time before you decide to quit.
I'm exactly like what you described in your past. When I'm at work, I am as professional as it gets - deadlines, quality code, testing and all that. However, due to the work environment, I find that at the end of the day I've used up all my positive energy and mental resources to keep myself in line and motivated.
How did you find that extra boost to bust ass in both work and personal projects (if at all)? Right it seems like see-saw between the two.
