seems to me like the guy who started out as a one-man reseller host scaling out into something he's nowhere capable of managing.. scary to think how many of these are out there
Readit Newsheymishy commented on Ask HN: How do technical non-developers help with open source projects? · Posted by u/thomk
What your describing is essentially a business analyst, albeit a technically minded in whilst not being a developer. I consider myself of the same ilk and I think the best thing you can contribute is input and UX/UI design, sanity checking of ideas, feedback from users etc.
The facilitation role between users and developers is so much more than 'documentation' which alot of the comments in this thread seem to suggest.
I suggest contacting a few of the projects listed here, or any you find on GitHub you'd like to contribute to and just offer to help.
heymishy commented on Charted – A new way to share data medium.com/data-lab/intro... · Posted by u/smurfpandey
It's beautiful. Really well done in terms of UI/UX. I did find a minor bug however, in the notes section newlines are completely discarded upon refreshing or sharing the link.
Anyways I thought I'd add a CSV file I had generated with Ebola outbreak data from the WHO where you can see a decline in the rate of infection and mortality of the virus.
http://www.charted.co/?%7B%22dataUrl%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fr...
interesting chart - just as an aside, im getting a 'phishing warning' on that link from Chrome.
heymishy commented on Lecture 16: How to Run a User Interview startupclass.samaltman.co... · Posted by u/adenot
Great lecture!
Coincidentally, my team is building a product that connects startup founders to user interviewees, specified by demographic. Looking for a few founders to test the platform for free before we launch. Let us know if any of you are interested! team@munocreative.com
that sounds like an interesting concept, similair to part of what something I am working would like to acheive. Are you providing a structure or allowing 'interviews' to be whatever form/structure the interviewer wants?
good luck, its a problem i havent seen solved properly yet!
I realise you're trying to be facetious, but probably this one: http://mina.naguib.ca/blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-so...
thats a great set of TCP timeout stories, enjoyed reading. In what circles do you travel that you comea cross multiple niche stories like this?
heymishy commented on Ask HN: Any (interactive) whiteboard scanning apps (i.e. draw onto canvas) · Posted by u/heymishy
Drop me an email geoff at foom.co and I'll show you what I'm building in Python. Not precisely what you are looking for but would not take much to adapt it.
Cool thanks Geoff, will do, I'm very intrigued now.
XMPP clients (e.g. Pidgin/Adium).
But they block OTR (at least HipChat does), and you lose most of the functionality.
isn't the point to block OTR. a core concept of both of them is knowledge capture and searchability which can't be done properly if your only having part of the conversation.
It definitely has its place to provide opportunity where you can't all meet together but it you'd to rely promote questions and discussions following this by all team members to avoid it being a box tick