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by AlexMuir 14y ago
I just bought a warehouse. Similar - I always wanted one. I'm going to turn it into a house and put a roof garden on it and put a sweet garage in to fiddle with cars and set up some office space and generally cause havoc in there. I could d
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Mindbending. Sometimes you have to actually play with something to appreciate its potential.
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This story must have the highest points : relevant comments ratio I've seen. 2 hours, 57 points and only one comment of any relevance.
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This is a great effort. But it makes me furious that the founding team can be so disparaging to their users. Sachin Agarwal, you used this community to enrich yourself and further your own career. In return, at the very least, you owe an
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
I've been looking for someone to write interesting, in-depth articles on local business. For money. I've yet to find anyone who a) wants to do it, and b) can do it. I've tried a few things - even contacting people who I know are doing unpa
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Add me to your list as well - I'd like to do something in this space. me@alexmuir.com
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
A brilliant story, well written. There have been a few horrific stories of cultural backwards attacking women with acid in the UK press. It's made me far more cautious when handling automotive batteries. I won't move a car battery ever aga
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Fixed and thanks.
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I'm on it. This is stock Obtvse, a Svbtle clone. I just put it up as a lightweight Rails blogging engine while I get some other stuff done. The whole thing needs redesigning, and I'm fairly embarrassed about having such a cloned (and, fr
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You're right - I should simply have both.
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Absolutely. Any sense of disappointment in the result tells you what you need to know.
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Cointoss(alexmuir.com)
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Appraisal(alexmuir.com)
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Simple and brilliant.
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Can someone point me to some decent, relevant SEO resources? I feel like I'm behind the times here. I need to understand how to take the information in Google Analytics and put that into ACTIONS. I'm working specifically on http://howacar
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Ketchup is a physical product with raw material costs which requires physical storage and delivery, and must be distributed through intermediaries. It also has a shelf life, and ingredients that fluctuate in price seasonally. Your compari
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I suppose one interesting thing about brands (or perhaps just Heinz) is that we assume they're local. I would have said Heinz was a British company, no question. Likewise with Kelloggs.
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Over the last few months I've been noticing a lot of adverts for Heinz products on the radio. They go like this: "When I was younger dad would take us out for fish and chips. We'd walk along the canal and feed the ducks, even in the rain.
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Yeah, I've seen them. The key point I took from this is that Lego is at an all-time low in pricing terms, even though it seems expensive.
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I can't find it previously posted to HN, is that your meaning?
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What happened with LEGO(therealityprose.wordpress.com)
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(We are) Named by Mechanical Turkeys(cogniso.com)
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Direct link for the UK (not sure it's accessible elsewhere): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p014f43k -- My embarrassment at this humiliating performance is only mitigated by a slight pride in the BBC presenters not letting him off with i
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Safe by default. That's your angle. It's additional effort to deploy dangerous code.
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Lightweight fixture files(github.com)
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And again with the flagging - dropped straight off the front page. Am I missing something?
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I've submitted this again because I think some HNers were being strategic about not voting this up and/or flagging it. The first submission got just one upvote ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5128948 ) - but about 20 domains were reg
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Gift HN: 5-letter Product domain names. Move quick.(cogniso.com)
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Gift HN: Have 200+ great domain names. Free.(cogniso.com)
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Apple stock down 10% after hours(google.com)
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