By being one of the first to stand up you are able to get your luggage faster (if any), skip a few rows down the aisle, get out the plane faster, and ultimately get to the immigration line before everyone else. When flying to the US from the UK I would notice that this could sometimes save 1 hour+.
The end goal is to get out of the airport as fast as possible, not just the plane. So the advantage is pretty significant.
> People literally spend all their time doing this, if there was free money to be made someone would be making it:)
I used to think this, then I worked on a trading system in an investment bank. Don't underestimate how quickly and easily you can learn and exceed people who should know what they're doing, given sufficient motivation.
However, from my (brief) usage of the landing page, I don't quite understand who will be doing the delegated work. Will it be some intern, or will it be your team? Who is your team? More specifically, what are there skills and what guarantees do I have?
Also - I can see potential problems with undergrad students submitting assignments to be done. Any idea how to regulate that kind of stuff and ensure you aren't just helping someone do something that they aren't allowed to delegate (or is this not your problem?).
I'm sure the details will be clearer with time, and for simple tasks this could work quite well.
I feel I can now go back and cover all the math i've forgotten since the first couple CS years (only a couple years ago!). I'm not really sure if it is worth the time from a practical standpoint, however I always feel slightly slower than other students when it comes to algorithm-related classes.
I can appreciate why you think this is a problem that needs to be solved. But I can't help feel a bit wrong about it.
From a technical standpoint also, I feel it is heavily flawed: So I write some sentimental notes, forget to check in one day or change my email address or some other very trivial reason not to get the notifications and boom, it thinks I'm dead and sends out messages that should not yet surface.
I think it's one of these things that is a 'good idea', but should never actually be followed through.
This looks super interesting and useful, really quick too. Most of the bugs I've spotted have already been mentioned.
I noticed you've open sourced a bunch of your modules in Javascript and Python. Out of interest what does your technology stack look like? (framework choice etc)
I bought both last year in late 2010 when they came out. I really wanted to keep the 11 but the 13 was just a much better all rounder. I always wished I had kept the 11. But once you sit down at a desk, portability stops being an issue and you appreciate the extra screen size.
1 year later and I sold my 13 to buy the new 11. For some reason I again ordered both the 11 and 13 and now I still can't decide which one to keep. I really really want to keep the 11 but the smaller battery, very slightly slower processor, worse speakers and smaller screen keep putting me off. The price is almost identical (top 11 vs base 13). The extra portability just makes me want to forget about all these drawbacks.
I plugin to an external monitor at home anyway, but what about places where you need the screen size. Anyone done or seen anyone do a hackathon with the 11?
If they just dropped both models and brought out a 12.1" my life would be complete.
I find that you always stumble upon fantastic articles. Recently I learnt to accept that I will never be able to read all of them and that in-fact it's better if I don't. Instead I will read what interests me at the time (while it is on the front-page of HN) and if it disappears then so be it.
Though to answer the question, anything you upvote is saved in your user profile under 'saved stories'. That's a minimalistic way to track them. Instapaper is another great alternative.
Of course grids are highly relevant to design. My problem is with the grid frameworks that are bulky with preset classes that expect me to use in my html.
I don't think it's relevant in my html whether a div is 2 columns or 8, that's presentational. Why can't someone make a framework that has clean standard html and a css file with lots of boilerplate grid code that I can use to apply to certain divs in my html?
When I want to make a change to the appearance of my page then I go into the CSS file, not mess around applying classes to my div's in my HTML file. That was kind of the point of CSS in the first place.
I'm really trying to understand whether grids are relevant to me as a web dev. I've been looking for good boilerplate code for a long time now and haven't been able to extract any from my own work as all the sites I've worked on differ quite significantly.
Why would anyone want presentational classes in their html? The whole point of the semantic/presentational separation of html/css is so that I don't need to touch the html when I want to make a presentational change. This is a backwards step.
Does anyone know of a responsive css framework that doesn't require me to mess with my html?
Will learning Ruby better give me a new perspective and reinforce my Java knowledge or will it just distract me?
I'll already need to learn extended ML for my functional programming class this semester (previously done haskell). I use php at work when doing front-end web dev. I wouldn't mind increasing my javascript skills also. So I'm afraid of being jack of all trades, master of none.
I know Java better than I think I do. It's all the libraries and frameworks that I need to become familiar with.
The end goal is to get out of the airport as fast as possible, not just the plane. So the advantage is pretty significant.