Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | _jnc's commentslogin

This is really cool!

Some ideas:

- Let me drag out guests to tables and then optimize around what I've done so far. It looks like optimize wipes the slate clean each time.

- You might consider letting people pick how many seats should be at each table with a +- tolerance.

- People really like seeing seat numbers, whether globally or local to a table.

- If you clean up the UI a bit this could also be something people print out for a reference chart at events.

Automatic seating has been one of the more common feature requests of my own seating chart app, seatpuzzle.com, but I haven't quite gotten around to modeling the right parameters and prioritized a different set of things instead.


Ooh cool!

FYI you can lock people to the tables and it optimizes around it already. Just click on the lock icon.

Interesting idea on the tolerances.

Right now I'm not putting in specific seat numbers yet. You just mean number them for UX purposes?

How's seatpuzzle.com doing? Looks like a cool app!


microsoft is going to need 2-3 seats on that board


Larry Summers mostly counts as a Microsoft seat. Summers will support commercial and private interest and not have a single thought about safety, just like during the financial crisis 15 years ago https://www.chronicle.com/article/larry-summers-and-the-subv...


Larry Summers hurt the US economy by making the recovery from 2008 much too slow. If they'd done stimulus better, we could've had 2019's economic growth years earlier. That would've been great for Microsoft.


Wait maybe he resigned with no notice to do something different and that's why the board response is so harsh.


My experience has been that most people have not heard of it, most people that have heard of it have not tried it meaningfully, and most people who tried it meaningfully did not unlock massive productivity gains yet.


In cases like this I always wonder, what stops another startup from basically just spinning up a figma clone from scratch?


This strikes me as exactly the intent of the cloud kitchen model, not some big reveal.


The mnemonic major system is a more approachable technique for number memorization (in english), learnable in several hours: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system


+1 I learned this as a kid and have been using it continually ever since.


Why do they enforce having a referrer set? If you refresh the page it becomes a 404.


If you use the url posted, it does a redirect from

http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-c...

to

http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-c...

and doesn't work on refresh.

But, if you remove the "#.VuHU1fevtY4.hackernews" fragment, the url works fine...

http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-c...


At least in Ruby, you can only do string interpolation with strings in double quotes.


JavaScript up to ES5 doesn't support string interpolation at all. ES6 introduces backticks `before${var}after` for that, but there's still no functional difference between single and double quotes.


Interesting they chose that, considering it's deprecated in bash and python.


Coffeescript as well. I try to use single quotes whenever possible, so if a string is templated it stands out a bit with the double quotes.


Video borrows a lot from Apple's "Designed by Apple in California": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyQfye4vAQ8


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: