australia?

One big farm in Australia is Anna Creek Station at 2.4 million hectares

Total UK farm land is 9 million hectares.

i think i'm joined to two now - had to be invited to second one

this is causing us terrible inconvenience .. has been going on for months :/

yup thats what i'm doing now.. would like to get off a vm at some point :/

straya

mate

i've tried heroku a few times, always found it kinda painful to learn and felt helpless when things go wrong..

not sure if its because i'm used to building own servers (which might be inefficient)

maybe heroku is better for people with less sys admin skills? or it might just be way better now (i haven't tried in over a year).

now i use rackspace/ec2/linode for rails.

Ada

Is this free association computer science Jeopardy? I'll go next please.

Hi code_duck. It's actually code, not free association. Let me uncode: Ada Lovelace wrote what most consider to be the first programming code. She wrote notes for the Analytical Engine--Babbage's early computer. She was a visionary regarding design and specifically how society could collaborate with technology. In the recent discussions about all people learning to code, I responded to the simple comment "Ada," by pointing a bit more sharply to the inflection behind that comment. Ada the language, yes, but the concept of society at large and coding goes back as far as Lovelace herself. There is a current of comment going now too that suggests the need for a broad underlying knowledge base on the part of hackers/programmers. Lovelace had that educational background. Humanities, science, culture. The whole soup. I am sorry that you were offended by my comment. I hope this elucidation helps. --GuerraEarth

Thanks, I do think that posts formed of complete sentences go further to advance the conversation than single words and sentence fragments.

Hey. It was the "Ada" one-word comment that made me do it : ) Anyway, thank you for being a good sport, code_duck. HN readers are an incredibly good group of people. It's a luxury, having HN. As good as a Christmas stocking each and every day.

it is all fashion, things come into fashion then they go out.

then they come back in.

there was an old Mad magazine that had this with cars:

  1. first the cars were all chrome with a little bit of glass

  2. then the glass got bigger and bigger

  3. eventually the cars were all glass with a little bit of chrome

  4. then a 'futuristic' car came along that was all chrome with only a little bit of glass

don't mind it, seems like the future will have this

Thanks. We are working on an API version of it. http://blog.sekai.io/ Right now we are just making a text->action API so developers can use it to control internet of things, later we are going to integrate voice api if there is a strong need.

Sorry, but do you realize that the "designer feedback" in your screenshot is beyond useless?

Feedback should be descriptive, not prescriptive. "Spacing is good" and "this is clear" don't really add much, nor does "header?", especially without the designer's thinking.

I think the price point here doesn't make sense for the type of feedback you're showcasing in the screenshot.

Other than that, could be a cool product if done well. I know designers who, with good guidelines, could do this kind of thing really efficiently and well.

really appreciate the feedback, and i agree.. the feedback needs to skew towards "useful things you can do to improve your site, preferably the easiest things to do"

TBH: they were the first two reviews we got done and that is what the designers came up with.. we wanted to soft launch and improve rather than wait for the 'perfect sample'

we've since run about 10 more (actually getting a bunch of websites to review from HN) and the reviews are getting better so we'll be replacing those samples soon...

one thing that we've seen from these reviews is that there are some great projects out there that need website help - sometimes i think people lose site of the fact that even a small startup can look as big as Apple if they have a decent website.

(also note i'm a dev not designer - we started this idea because i've needed it countless times on projects i've been working on)

yes did consider code reviews.

our thought on this would be mainly for people to check outsourced work is not way out of line.

in a 30-60 minute review you can't get too deep, but you can give a general opinion of the overall quality of the code and whether or not the developers are way out of line.

it might be more a sanity check for non-tech website owners.

Did you consider doing the same for code reviews?

as a side point, there should be a point where you can comment that "things look good", but i agree the designer should have to comment on why they look good..

we're working out designer guidelines now :)

Not bad. However, any decent front-end guy will likely hack his way directly in the browser to see how things would actually look like. Build an extension that allow them to snapshot their CSS/DOM hack on actual code (I believe there are already a few doing similar things) and send that back to users instead of a simple document. Probably more actionable for the potential customers.