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Re: Show HN: I'll e-mail you in the morning if it's going to be a beautiful day.

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Post by skroth »

ForrestN wrote: post #31

The idea is cute and it seems nicely executed, but I'm a bit turned off by the, err, narcissistic aspect. Me and Brian haven't met yet, I'm not sure I want to invite him into my daily life. Could just be me. Edit: if the feedback isn't straightforward enough, I'll say it more plainly. I feel like the use of your image and name throughout adds a somewhat strange flavor to the tool that some people, like me, won't resp…

I don't think it's vanity. I think the point of that was to make it more personal, and not serious.

Re: Show HN: I'll e-mail you in the morning if it's going to be a beautiful day.

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Post by shantanubala »

steve8918 wrote: post #70

If someone is developing a web site in this day and age, do we really need to have all that legalese, including Terms of Service such as the one on this website? I get the importances of the Privacy statement, but are the whole "Use License" and "Limitations", etc really necessary? It's fairly obvious that the web site is just for fun. I'm not ragging on the OP, I'm wondering if we are deciding on creating our own we…

I'm not a lawyer, so take all this with a very very large grain of salt.

I did some reading about this because I had some mild concern about a couple side projects, and basically, if you're not charging money and there isn't anything intentionally malicious about your web site, people will have a hard time winning in court. If you're giving away an opt-in service for free, even if someone tries to sue you, it will be very difficult for them to win.

If they were paying you, and their business relies on your service, then they may have grounds for a lawsuit (assuming you didn't do anything to remedy the situation or didn't react appropriately). But if you're giving something away, it's viewed as their fault for relying on your service when it didn't have any type of guarantee associated with it. Web sites have bugs and downtime -- that's an inherent problem with computers -- so unless you make a guarantee that you're providing a bug-free 100% uptime solution, you don't have any obligation to provide a service that exceeds the reliability of even the most advanced multi-billion dollar companies (does anyone have 100% uptime and no bugs?).

Re: Show HN: I'll e-mail you in the morning if it's going to be a beautiful day.

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Post by charlieok »

cowpewter wrote: post #68
charlieok wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“But for building excitement I think it would be best to send it after it got dark (the timing of which you could determine from the date and location).” On a somewhat related note, I recently went hunting for phone apps to help me better sync up with times as determined by the sun, rather than numbers on a clock. I like the feeling of getting enough sleep and of being up before the Sun, and I'd like to be relatively…

Perhaps a little offtopic, but I just went and bought Sol for my iPhone based on your post here, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to have it set alarms from within the app. It seems to only have two screens: the main screen that displays the wheel, and if you click the i it takes you to the screen where you can add cities and change the type of dawn you want displayed. Do you mean that you can use the di…

Sorry, I didn't know about the other one. Was going by the name displayed underneath the icon.

Re: Show HN: I'll e-mail you in the morning if it's going to be a beautiful day.

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Post by bingbing »

delinka wrote: post #67
16s wrote: post #61

Use a weather rock. It's the most accurate weather prediction device. If it's wet, it's raining. If it's white, it's snowing. If it's not there, there's been a tornado. here's a photo of one: http://www.cookislands.org.uk/image/Tais%20weather%20rock.jp...

"prediction device" ... "there's been a tornado" I'm certain this is the opposite of prediction.

Fine, postdiction device.

Re: Show HN: I'll e-mail you in the morning if it's going to be a beautiful day.

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Post by daniel_iversen »

huhtenberg wrote: post #69
toast76 wrote: post #63

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We don't get tornados in Australia. If your rock is missing, some bastard stole it.

I thought there were no thieves in Australia either.

forgot that they were all thieves once upon a time did we? ;)

Re: Show HN: I'll e-mail you in the morning if it's going to be a beautiful day.

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Post by Swifty »

ForrestN wrote: post #31

The idea is cute and it seems nicely executed, but I'm a bit turned off by the, err, narcissistic aspect. Me and Brian haven't met yet, I'm not sure I want to invite him into my daily life. Could just be me. Edit: if the feedback isn't straightforward enough, I'll say it more plainly. I feel like the use of your image and name throughout adds a somewhat strange flavor to the tool that some people, like me, won't resp…

When I looked at the page i didn't think it was narcissistic, I got the feeling it was trying to give you a more personal approach, over just a faceless site sending you an email.

Re: Show HN: I'll e-mail you in the morning if it's going to be a beautiful day.

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Post by cowpewter »

charlieok wrote: post #73
cowpewter wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps a little offtopic, but I just went and bought Sol for my iPhone based on your post here, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to have it set alarms from within the app. It seems to only have two screens: the main screen that displays the wheel, and if you click the i it takes you to the screen where you can add cities and change the type of dawn you want displayed. Do you mean that you can use the di…

Sorry, I didn't know about the other one. Was going by the name displayed underneath the icon.

No worries. They both displayed only Sol under the icon. I just wish the app store search didn't suck so hard. Searching 'sol' mostly found solitaire games and I had to scroll a bit to even find the wrong clock app. Google found the correct one with minimal searching.
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