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Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by PStamatiou »

elitrium wrote: post #15
oumph1 wrote: post #13

Does anyone know what the USB Ultrasound transducer mentioned is called?

Judging from the screenshot, I believe it's made by BodyMetrix: http://www.amazon.com/BodyMetrix-Personal-Ultrasound-Body-Co...

Yes that's the one he has (I'm his roommate)

Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by nilved »

On Arch Linux using WebKit, this page doesn't load at all without JavaScript, and doesn't work at all with it. Can you fix the site or provide a text version?

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Post by nilved »

dschwartz88 wrote: post #6

I realize that this took a huge amount of time, so asking for an open source version of this might be asking a bit much. But, I would absolutely be willing to pay for a SaaS product, or a licensing fee for the code. It's absolutely beautiful, and as someone who does this in a gross spreadsheet, moving to something like this would be unbelievable.

> I realize that this took a huge amount of time, so asking for an open source version of this might be asking a bit much.

What's this to mean? Linux and gcc took much more time from many more developers. Licensing isn't a function of your investment into the project, it's a function of how the project will best benefit the world.

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Post by markgarity »

Anand, you have SERIOUSLY outdone yourself on this one. I continue to aspire to attain frontend design chops as good as yours.

I remember watching Iron Man with this guy in his apartment in LA while trying to convince him to move to SF. He took meticulous sketches and notes on the UI used in the film. I look at this, especially the initial circular ui, and see the culmination of those notes with amazing use of frontend technologies and near perfect 3rd party integrations.

Well done, man. You are an inspiration to me.

Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by exogen »

blueatlas wrote: post #3

This is a striking example of the amount of work and thought that goes into a design that presents rich data so clearly and cleanly. The casual visitor would likely never have an idea of what it took to build what they are looking at.

Yes. It really shines a lot on the fact that those futuristic movie interfaces didn't just spring out of the computer by virtue of it being the future. And I'm not talking about the CGI folks who create those interfaces for the movie (although of course that's a lot of work, too) – I mean in the fictional movie universe, where did those UIs come from? Are we assuming that in the future, computers will be auto-generating all these sweet transitions and design details? It seems to me that it will always come about just like April Zero – through a LOT of effort, trial, and error.

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Post by icantthinkofone »

markgarity wrote: post #27

Anand, you have SERIOUSLY outdone yourself on this one. I continue to aspire to attain frontend design chops as good as yours. I remember watching Iron Man with this guy in his apartment in LA while trying to convince him to move to SF. He took meticulous sketches and notes on the UI used in the film. I look at this, especially the initial circular ui, and see the culmination of those notes with amazing use of fronte…

So you can answer the question. Who is Anand Sharma?
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