Making of Aprilzero • Hacker News Board

Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by kalvin » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 8:12 AM UTC

This is SO well done. So, so impressive.

A side question, for any doctors on HN-- I'm really curious, what do you think about the Blood Tests section? That is, the benefits of monthly blood testing. From talking to one earlier today about related topics (coincidentally!) I could imagine the following response:

1. The ideal ranges for each value on your blood test do not necessarily represent the ideal range for you personally -- and not only do they not necessarily represent the ideal range for you, if your number is outside them and you're otherwise asymptomatic, your number is likely already "healthy" (with very few major exceptions like blood pressure and cholesterol.)

2. So by doing this, you aren't actually tracking things that need to be improved, or rather, you have no way of knowing if you'd be "more healthy" by being within range

3. So, getting monthly blood tests is useless, and any changes detected would also be useless

4. (And as an aside, annual physicals for young healthy people are not beneficial (and can be harmful) to health)

Is this right? Was I just talking to a curmudgeon? Tech-optimistic doctors, what do you think?

Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by lectrick » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 9:51 AM UTC

reledi wrote: post #40

skizm wrote: post #11

Wow, what do you do for a living that you can travel so much?

You don't need a lot of money to travel.

You need a bit of money to travel to Tokyo on a whim, as detailed in one of his screenshotted chats.

Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by tisunov » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 10:27 AM UTC

Such a thorough peek behind the curtains of his design decisions. And he definitely fueled my passion for travel and active lifestyle.

Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by ivabz » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 10:51 AM UTC

WOW. Appreciate the way it is build.

But, So screwed up on IE10.

Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by joeyspn » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 11:16 AM UTC

This is an awesome work, really. The design style reminds me a lot of Eric Jordan's style (2advanced Studios) [0]. Not really a new style, but nice to see that Interaction Design with open technologies (HTML/JS/CSS) is arriving "there", where (believe or not) Flash was 10 years ago...

I've been waiting for this moment for years. Hopefully this will set a new trend.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANng1oTO2Zk

Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by joeyspn » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 11:24 AM UTC

ivabz wrote: post #74

WOW. Appreciate the way it is build. But, So screwed up on IE10.

Collateral damage...

Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by dan1234 » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 1:09 PM UTC

karl_gluck wrote: post #64

This is really amazing; on the desktop, the site looks fantastic and it is very interesting to browse. I learned way more about his travel history than probably necessary due to sheer interest. That said, it is completely unusable on the phone. Not just 'it looks weird' but completely broken. I can't navigate anything or even read the article linked here. -Firefox on Nexus 5

FWIW it looks very nice in Mobile Safari, maybe there's something Firefox doesn't support right now?

Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by ff7c11 » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 2:31 PM UTC

lukeholder wrote: post #67

k-mcgrady wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> Does everyone have to have some magical backstory to qualify to ship something great? I was wondering the same as the parent and not because I thought there was a 'magical backstory' but because when someone ships something this good they have usually shipped something else you know of.

I disagree, a lot of people crate massively good work but never self promote. Not that he is self promoting, but the point stands producing high quality work does not mean fame.

Ok, but the lifestyle of just hoping on a plane somewhere to get into the mind of an explorer requires you to be getting funding from somewhere (though perhaps not dev work)

Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by Excavator » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 4:30 PM UTC

dan1234 wrote: post #77

karl_gluck wrote: post #64

This is really amazing; on the desktop, the site looks fantastic and it is very interesting to browse. I learned way more about his travel history than probably necessary due to sheer interest. That said, it is completely unusable on the phone. Not just 'it looks weird' but completely broken. I can't navigate anything or even read the article linked here. -Firefox on Nexus 5

FWIW it looks very nice in Mobile Safari, maybe there's something Firefox doesn't support right now?

More likely the issue is due to him using a ton of -webkit-prefixes for things that have been unprefixed for years in Firefox.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/07/aurora-16-is-out/

Re: Making of Aprilzero

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Post by Excavator » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 4:35 PM UTC

joeyspn wrote: post #76

ivabz wrote: post #74

WOW. Appreciate the way it is build. But, So screwed up on IE10.

Collateral damage...

Don't have access to IE here but he's using a ton of -webkit- prefixing for things that are supported in other browsers since long ago.

http://caniuse.com/transforms2d

http://caniuse.com/css-transitions

http://caniuse.com/css-animation

http://caniuse.com/css-gradients

Must say all that -webkit- yellow on those pages is scary.