is there any plan on adding grooveshark to the list?
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#92Not to accuse anyone of astroturfing, but the comments on this link read like what you'd hear on a late night infomercial.
I think they had a pretty nice long beta and many YN users participated. I know my programmer showed me this a few months back and was super excited about it.
So, now that it's public everyone wants to rave about it. Makes sense.
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#93This makes me think of 'Daemon' by Daniel Suarez.
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#94About ifttt Heh. Also, when did chrome stop antialiasing text? If I somehow checked a box labeled "make text look worse", then someone please enlighten me. http://bbot.org/etc/aliasing.png EDIT: Ha ha, Windows, you card, always with the case-insensitive file systems. Got me again! Link should work now.
The text is aliased on my Windows Firefox and Chrome, but not my Linux Firefox. The font is Helvetica, which is apparently rendered quite poorly on Windows.
That's it — Windows comes with a crappy bitmap Helvetica, and most Linux distributions are even worse because X includes an abysmally bad tiny raster one. Macs ship with a good one, and Adobe Creative Suite installers usually bundle one which is how lots of designers never notice the problem on Windows.
Basically, you should never specify 'Helvetica' anywhere in a font declaration. Specify 'Helvetica Neue', the pretty close 'Microsoft Sans Serif', or gasp Arial — it's not actually worse in any way, despite all the wankery.
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#95Not to accuse anyone of astroturfing, but the comments on this link read like what you'd hear on a late night infomercial.
My significant other and I found out about it today! The tasks were really easy to set up and I even converted some to recipes! I'd definitely recommend trying it to everyone. Do it; you'll love it!?
Anyways, I think it echoes with the sentiments of many that the internet should be more like a Tivo and a lot less like a fire hose, but without the portal-type restrictions that big enterprise would like to handcuff one with. It's an interesting take on looking forward. Years from now you'll only get updates from people on Facebook that you know you'll enjoy, like drunken ones that include a picture and semi-nudity. Or better yet, pre-scrub your timeline for any potentially offensive or embarrassing content.
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#96I've been using ifttt to: * Scour Craigslist for an apartment in San Francisco * Put indeed.com job searches for "UI Design San Francisco" into Evernote * Monitor airline fares for the cheapest time to buy a one-way ticket from BOS to SFO * Text me when the temperature in zip code 94103 rises above 68 to remind myself to get out and enjoy my new city. THANKS IFTTT! I couldn't have done it without you!
FYI adioso.com (YC W09) does airline price notifications :)
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#97Anyone interested in this may care to read the discussion from 3 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2604921 To be honest, I still have a hard time figuring out how, where or why I would ever use this. Maybe I'm just too old, too disconnected, or too stupid to understand what it's all about, but in short, I just don't. I'd love a single, simple, concrete example of a relevant problem this solves. Don't ge…
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#98Just tried it out: this is awesome. Love the UX!
One major nitpick: Please make my browser's back button work between steps when creating a task!
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#99Really like this - huge range of possible applications. One question though: what, if anything, does ifttt do to detect/prevent infinite loops? If I create a task to copy new photos added to flickr to instragram, and another task to copy new photos added to instagram to flickr, what happens?
Hi, obviously infinite loops will become an issue we will have to deal with as the service grows. Especially if we start running tasks at a much faster clip and not just every 15 minutes.
It's probably not too hard to solve the problem. You could create a directed graph where the nodes are triggers and the edges are actions and make sure there are no cycles created whenever a user turns on or creates a task.
Caveats to the above are that you'd need to make sure that accounts in the channels are tied to single users (or join together the graphs of multiple users where they share channel accounts). You'd also need to handle odd edge cases with trigger fields and addins - such as a user @mentioning themselves and triggering an action to reply to the user who mentioned them.
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#100Does this support nested if-then statements, or multiple criteria? With the UI the "wtf" page demonstrates, it seems like this could easily be designed to work as a graphical version of programming.
Right now it just covers a single 'if this then that' statement, but expanding from there is definitely a direction we could take. However, we'd like to be really cautious about getting to close to traditional programming as things could quickly become unaccessible to the wider audience. We talk a lot about pushing complexity out to the channels themselves. For instance if "its going to rain tomorrow AND tomorrow is…
Yes, I think multiple criteria could be a simpler solution to having the same functionality as nested statements. I think maybe two or three criteria would be good, without getting out of hand. This is a cool concept, definitely keep at it.