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Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

#51
I think a more interesting problem to solve is how to get someone out of bed more pleasantly and with less sleep inertia. Something like the philips natural light alarms are a step in the right direction.

TBH, I would kill to have the entire ceiling of my bedroom covered in a planar array of natural light bulbs that gradually light up at the time I need to get up and I want them to reach the full intensity of the midday sun in the Sahara.

Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

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post #12

Maybe with some quick retooling, this could be both a useful and a popular app. Before sending off the FB message, record both the desired wake up time and the actual wake up time (which would be the time that the alarm was formally turned off as opposed to snooze). Store both values (and the date) in a spreadsheet. And then give the user a quick visualization/dashboard of how well he/she has been doing. Maybe after…

Sleep Cycle for the iPhone tracks and graphs quite a bit of useful information and may provide many of the features you're looking for. (Note it uses the phone's accelerometer for sleep tracking, so be wary your partner/bed may skew data - i haven't studied the effects). You can get some raw data, and it plots some commonly asked datasets. At the very least, it can provide a quick way to collect data and correlate wh…

I've been using Sleep Cycle for a couple of weeks, and it works well and it's interesting to see graphs of your sleep quality. Makes me feel like Stephen Wolfram, who I would just assume has been doing the same:

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...

Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

#53

I don't know - just telling my facebook friends that I couldn't get out of bed in the morning? Sounds too mundane and even relate-able. "Oh Jim didn't get out of bed again," big fucking deal right? Let's up the stakes here. You know what alarm I would never fuck with? The one that's about to "like" a certain fetish video on redtube or youporn.

if you really want to up the stakes -- the money-shredding alarm would have me out of bed in a jiffy --

http://mashable.com/2011/05/29/money-shredding-alarm/

Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

#54
post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see. That will be confusing to non-americans to whom a 12-hour clock is far from standard. It's also seems a bit weird to have two checkboxes (= 4 bits of information) to choose between a 12-hour and 24-hour clock (2 bits). I guess only one can be checked at a time? That said, however, what you probably should be doing is to respect the setting in iOS: http://i.imgur.com/kMQgw3m.png

Sorry for the OC. I may have missed something here. I don't see how two checkboxes equal 4 bits of information by default. In this case you can have two checkboxes depending on 1 bit that can represent and/or count 2 values regardless the two checkboxes being complementary or contrary. Four bits can represent up to 16... Are you referencing "bit" for "piece" and also for "binary digit" ? Other ?

Err... my brain was just malfunctioning. I meant to say 1 bit and 2 bits, not 2¹ and 2² bits. :-)

Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

#55
post #25

Small gray text on a white background, really, Apple? http://contrastrebellion.com/

The kerning on the bold typefaces throughout that site is annoying at best.

You mean the star wars type font? It's pretty bad, I assume it's only there as a play on the whole "rebel" spin.

Re: Show HN: iOS app. Snooze this alarm clock and it will humiliate you on Facebook

#56
post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry for the OC. I may have missed something here. I don't see how two checkboxes equal 4 bits of information by default. In this case you can have two checkboxes depending on 1 bit that can represent and/or count 2 values regardless the two checkboxes being complementary or contrary. Four bits can represent up to 16... Are you referencing "bit" for "piece" and also for "binary digit" ? Other ?

Err... my brain was just malfunctioning. I meant to say 1 bit and 2 bits, not 2¹ and 2² bits. :-)

Thanks for posting back, that was driving me insane. :D
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