Connecting with a developer? My best advice would be to check my profile for my email address.

Wow what good advice.

the sad part is, nobody can see your email address. try logging out of HN and looking at your own profile.

if you want others to be able to contact you, you have to put that information in your 'about' field.

That's fucking awesome!

I'm going to sound harsh but please don't take it the wrong way. Take it for the literal words.

This has to(almost) be the worst user interface I have ever seen.

I can understand the Yes/No but if a user says No I do not have a smartphone, you STILL need to show them your product.

Otherwise you're alienating a possible future customer, and more importantly you're leaving a bad taste in someone's mouth and I'm going to go tell 3 friends who are going to tell 3 friends. You understand the rest I'm sure.

you know your right.

you get two guys in a room coding all day for months, and as much as we try to step back and walk through it again, we always seem to miss something so obvious. beta testers bypass this screen so we never got input.

thanks!

Changed it! thanks for the input.

fixed.

Now that's just showing off. Still it's hard to deny Autodesk is good at what it does, I'd love to know just what they have in store for this acquisition.

Except it doesn't look the same does it ;)

If the author of this blog post reads this then if I may, I have a few comments, and everyone else should take note as-well ;)

"When they talk about how they live to program and never leave the lab"

THEY ARE BORING.

I LOVE programming, however I also LOVE playing with my 2-year old, playing poker with the fella's, practicing origami, watching movies, working on my (admittedly horrible) art skills.

I know exactly where you are coming from when you say that you are worried about your programming skills not being 'up to snuff' but trust me, it is a small price to pay for having a life that is fun and enjoyable. It's these people skills and life skills that will make you more-rounded, and I'll be frank when I say that the more-rounded you are, the more likely you are to have fun, and the more you have fun the more it will show. And the more it shows you enjoy life, the more people/bosses/hiring managers will want to hire you to work around them.

It isn't always the technical skills, most of the time it's the soft skills that make a difference. So practice your knitting, and definitely practice the Japanese. And next time you are asked about what you have as a hobby, be honest. It will impress.

In defense of the obssessed, let me say that "fun" is relative.

Lets' take CS out of the equation and consider the case of many basketball players. In their college and highschools, they found themselves mixed in with people who were good at sports but had no great innate talents, and also didn't obsesses about practice. These people punched their clock---coming in for after school practice---then went home to enjoy other hobbies.

Now the outliers---the ones who would eventually make it to the NBA--were a different breed. Not only were they innately talented, but they obsessed about the game from the point of view of a 'normal' player. They practiced their free throws till they were perfect, they re-watched their games till strategy was second nature, they pushed their natural abilities to the limits and as a result had far less time to do anything else.

The same applies to prima-balerinas who often started training at age 6, to young chess grandmasters who simply played and studied chess more than anyone else their age, to anyone who's field was competitive enough that mere talent wouldn't take you to the top.

Is Usian Bolt boring? Was Pierina Legnani boring?

And for that matter--do they consider their training to be boring?

Coming back to CS, computer science encoompases a wide enough range that one can have a "hobby" that is in CS that isn't similar to their job or studies. For example one can specialize in logic programming as their job, but come home and play around by (a) making a procedurally generated game with their kid, (b) a poker-bot for those online games they play, (c) a flash card program so they can better learn Japanese, (d) a better Netflix recommendation engine, or (e) art with RaphaelJS. All of these involve some level of programming, and some level of Computer Science. Are they all boring just because they still involve CS?

Because the internet is slowing 'becoming' computing. And he who holds the keys, unlocks the doors. ;)

1st, As someone who never got to experience an ultrasound of their daughter do to being deployed, I think this is really a great app. I can only imagine how happy it will make people to easily send ultrasound scans to one another. Really a great idea here.

2nd, It would be interesting to see if commercialization of this would destroy the need for this service in the health-care industry.

lol, I think this is a parody. Just something a bunch of nerds got together and threw together and is being taken too seriously. Meh just my opinion though, it very well might be for real.

This is real. There was an hour long documentary that followed one of these clubs around for a few months.

An interesting idea however from what I've seen it's rather difficult to get professors away from the paper-textbook. Even in more technical fields where having the information online would seem more /plausible/ it still faces the dinosaur of education change.