xerophtye (u/xerophtye)

xerophtye commented on Show HN: TryCatch – Get offers only with your desired salary trycatch.cc/... · Posted by u/asadlionpk

munirusman · 11 years ago

Great question. The biggest value employers get is significantly higher response rate from developers. Compare it with linkedin inmails where most of the interview offers are considered spam because developers don't see the incremental monetary value in offers.

xerophtye · 11 years ago

Well ofcourse there ARE benefits to them, but I would just like to see you present it to them as awesomely as you presented to us devs

xerophtye commented on Show HN: TryCatch – Get offers only with your desired salary trycatch.cc/... · Posted by u/asadlionpk

xerophtye · 11 years ago

Btw, Wouldn't a good anti-recruiter mechanism be that you only allow employer accounts when you verify that the user represents an actual company etc?

xerophtye commented on Show HN: TryCatch – Get offers only with your desired salary trycatch.cc/... · Posted by u/asadlionpk

xerophtye · 11 years ago

I understand that this is your MVP and you are simply gauging the developer interest at the moment, but I would love to see what you are pitching to the employers. No, this is not about me not trusting you, I am just curious why would the other side use this (or how you will convince them to use it). Since you are building a marketplace, I would like to see how you are attracting both ends of the transaction

xerophtye commented on Hacker Says He Can Break Into Airplane Systems Using In-Flight Wi-Fi npr.org/blogs/alltechcons... · Posted by u/uger

ChrisClark · 11 years ago

During an international Air Canada flight, they had USB ports right beside the touch screen seat back monitors. I thought I'd try plugging my remote mouse into it. Worked perfectly fine, a mouse pointer showed up and I could use it fine.

I was wondering what I could do with a keyboard, or a nicely crafted USB stick. The interface seems to be an HTML/JS interface, so I'm not sure what OS it was running on. The mouse pointer was not a Windows default so it was probably Linux.

I wonder if I could have switched terminals if I had my keyboard. Also, if I had my keyboard I'd be too scared to try.

xerophtye · 11 years ago

I remember once the screen in front of me crashed and clearly booted up some flavour of linux. (it even displayed the penguin!) Oh and i think it did end up on a console... though there were no USB ports visible at the time

xerophtye commented on Show HN: QuoDB – Movie quote search engine based on subtitles quodb.com... · Posted by u/lusob

d0100 · 11 years ago

This is halfway trough what I wanted to do. Just add the movie's clip together with the quote and, boom, gold.

xerophtye · 11 years ago

One developer did something like that. She'd use subtitiles to create .gif's of movie quotes. made a utility for it! will post if i can find the link

xerophtye commented on Show HN: QuoDB – Movie quote search engine based on subtitles quodb.com... · Posted by u/lusob

xerophtye · 11 years ago

Interesting case: i searched "screw you" and it als turned up results like "are you screwing with me?" , "we would have been screwed..." etc

xerophtye commented on Ask HN: Which Markdown editor do you use? · Posted by u/davidbarker

eaten-by-grues · 11 years ago

I can second the Sublime Text recommendation and add MarkdownPad (http://markdownpad.com/) for Windows.

xerophtye · 11 years ago

I tried using Sublime text 3 for markdown but there was no significant syntax highlighting.

xerophtye commented on Ask HN: Do bootstrapped billion-dollar companies exist? · Posted by u/mdunn

xerophtye · 11 years ago

Does Facebook count in this? I mean they did start with Eduardo Saverin's $10k as bootstrap money no?

xerophtye commented on Please add Screenshots to Kanban Cards bestwebdev.tumblr.com/pos... · Posted by u/grexi

xerophtye · 11 years ago

Already doing this in Trello =)

xerophtye commented on List of Web Business Models gist.github.com/ndarville... · Posted by u/pessimism

babarock · 11 years ago

One thing worth mentioning for games is what Valve is doing with Dota 2.

The game is truly free to play, and giving them all the money in the world will not give the player any in-game advantage. On the surface, the game sells various hero skins and other cosmetic items that are little more than vanity items. Looking closer, it seems that Valve is making (or at least trying to make) money by developing a scene of professional gamers around this game. Just last weekend they held an international competition (conveniently named [The International](http://www.dota2.com/international/overview/) ) where the prize pool exceeded 10 million USD. This pool was partly funded by the community of viewers paying to watch the pros play their games. I paid my ticket 7.5€ (10$) a third of which went directly to the prize pool.

I don't know if this model is viable or profitable. Maybe someone has more info. But it's worth looking at. I've always been interested by products that are free to use by the public and make money from the pros using it.

xerophtye · 11 years ago

Totally viable. Riot Games is pulling it off with League of Legends. Exact same case: money is just for skins etc. All the money in the world won't give you any unfair advantage. Oh and yes, HUGE competitive scene.