bodiam's comments

On: Fractal Design Launches Define R6 Casing With USB-...

[bodiam]

Thanks for that! Do you have a link by any chance?

[neverminder → bodiam]

Corsair Obsidian 1000D: https://www.corsair.com/uk/en/obsidian-1000d-case

On: Fractal Design Launches Define R6 Casing With USB-...

[bodiam]

We're also a bit surprised that

1) it has only 1 USB-C connector 2) it still has USB-C 2.0 connector. It's probably cheaper to implement, and maybe(??) there are devices which don't work well with USB-A 3.0. Not 100% sure though.

On: Fractal Design Launches Define R6 Casing With USB-...

[bodiam]

Hi cerberuss,

Maybe these picture help?

http://www.fractal-design.com/media/97cdb3f9-1e15-4bcc-97e4-... http://www.fractal-design.com/media/6c4c84bb-d1c9-4efb-9f55-...

It seems all connections are at the front, and I'm actually wondering if the case has USB connections at the back of the case.

On: Fractal Design Launches Define R6 Casing With USB-...

[bodiam]

yeah, something went wrong, I didn't expect that many visitors all of a sudden, so went out of memory, etc. Is fixed now, thanks for letting me know.

We're planning on a doing a review of the case soon if you're interested, we're trying to do a USB-C only build.

On: Interview with Andy Hunt, Coauthor of the Pragmati...

[bodiam]

Thanks for the feedback. How can we improve it for next time?

[GoodbyeEarl → bodiam]

Hey, I'm not an UX specialist but

  .entry p {
    margin-bottom: 1em;
    font-weight: 400;
    line-height: 25px;
    font-size: 16px;
  }

did the trick for me. I found it more pleasing to the eyes. BTW, nice interview! ;)

[bodiam → GoodbyeEarl]

Added it! It indeed looks better. Not 100% sure about the line height, but thanks for this!

[GoodbyeEarl → bodiam]

NP. Glad I could help. :)

[bodiam → GoodbyeEarl]

Thanks, that's most appreciated! I'll have a look to see what it does!

On: Interview with Andy Hunt, Coauthor of the Pragmati...

[bodiam]

To make the next one better, what kind of questions would you like to see?

[3am_hackernews → bodiam]

Not the OP, but something a bit more open ended and allowing interesting answers (IMHO):

- If you had to design a programming language, what would be some of the decisions you would make?

- (Since he lists things such woodworking, fiction writing, etc.) How has programming influenced your life?

- If you had to write another book, what would it be on?

- What do you think about the general state of interviews (programming related positions) in the industry?

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Other non-question comment:

- UX/Usability/Readability, layout, font selection of you website is really poor. Please make it easier for the readers (e.g. https://blog.ycombinator.com/chris-slowe-interview)

[bodiam → 3am_hackernews]

Hi, thanks for the feedback, much appreciated. Will take your questions into account for the next interview.

Regarding the UX/etc, is is that bad? Any suggestions to improve? I'm not sure if the ycombinator is that much better to be honest, but I might be missing something, and I'm open for improvements!

On: Interview with Andy Hunt, Coauthor of the Pragmati...

[bodiam]

Hi, thanks for the feedback. Which browser/os are you using?

On: Spinner

[bodiam]

Slightly more impressive: https://www.google.com/search?q=play+dreidel

[ohazi → bodiam]

https://www.google.co.il/search?q=play+dreidel

Attention to detail: Replacing the ש with a פ when spinning in Israel.

[maverick_iceman → bodiam]

https://www.google.com/search?q=play+tic+tac+toe

[phillc73 → maverick_iceman]

Sadly this doesn't work:

https://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=play+noughts+and+cr...

On: Tricks to Monetize Your Side Projects

[bodiam]

Actually, I have another project (in progress), which is a collection of curated blogposts. The name is http://www.bestprogrammingbooks.com

It's mostly books I like, and books I've read, but it's current revenue comes from Amazon affiliates. I know affiliates are often frowned upon, but I do my best to not recommend anything crap ;)

On: Tricks to Monetize Your Side Projects

[bodiam]

Very interesting article. We are also working on a small side project, called https://www.MetaGrader.com

We are aware of the aesthetics of the site, and working on that, but we have some discussions on how to monetise it; should we go for a credit system (with weekly reports about your site, historic information, automated improvement tips), should we go for selling expert advice, or should we focus on other things, like advertising, reselling services like pingdom/gtmetrix, etc?

We would value your opinion in this!

[jermaustin1 → bodiam]

This would be a lead in to a back end product.

Your back end product could be something like "managed customized cloud hosting" (a.k.a. 3 $5 digitocean droplets) $85/mo. I did something like this with a wordpress hosting product we launched. $50+/mo. We just used a specialized hardened image on digitalocean. The lowest product was a single $5 droplet for the wordpress install and a $10 droplet for the MySQL box.

Or hold back some of your recommendations, generate a report with contact information so they can get in touch with you and set up a service agreement giving them EXACT things to change. Try and set up a retainer for 5hrs/month @ $200/mo then tack on specialized hosting!

[bodiam → jermaustin1]

Much appreciated for your feedback. I think we'll go for option 2, especially for the recommendations. Also, one of our services will be continuous monitoring of your ranking and performance, so that any changes done to your site are reflected in a timely fashion. This could match with a subscription service.

At the moment, I think we don't want to recommend specialised hosting when we cannot prove it will benefit their site, but we might add a host comparison to get better data on this.

Thanks again for the help, your feedback is much appreciated!