AlexMuir

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Pebble starts shipping(kickstarter.com)
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
I often wonder how other projects have tackled a similar problem to one I am tackling - today's example being multi-day events on a calendar. This list will make it much easier to see projects where there might be overlap. Thanks for the
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
"We're at risk from upstarts in every sector of our business. Developers hate us." "All hands on deck! We've got to get the communications team together and put out the best damn press release we've ever done." "But we don't have anything
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
From your point of view it's a success - there's clearly interest. Put some content on the site, resubmit it. The audience is clearly there. Email me when you do and I'll be the first to upvote it.
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Well why don't you make some content available and then people will see what they're signing up for. If you've already got it then this is zero effort for a higher conversion. FWIW I've flagged this because at the moment you're 'showing' H
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So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?(ironicsans.com)
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Add to home screen(cubiq.org)
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Getting Chrome malware warning for this article: Danger: Malware Ahead! Google Chrome has blocked access to this page on techcrunch.com. Content from d.adsbyisocket.com, a known malware distributor, has been inserted into this web page. Vis
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Absolutely spot on. Although I'd say Github is fairly symbiotic with Git itself - a tech leveraged by a brilliant service which pulls in more adopters to the tech. I don't know if there's something similar with VPNs.
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Delighted to see this emerge. Unsexy and brilliant. I wish I understood your market more, but my only contribution is to say that an old client called me just today asking about VPNs and I bumbled around trying to sound knowledgeable. One
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
So people told it as they saw it. That's the way hackers work and speak - and that sort of frankness is one of the major reasons that HN remains outstanding in terms of signal vs noise. We don't escape everything with weasel words and seco
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Ask HN: Could we crowdfund a therapist who is available to depressed hackers?
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A google for that exact phrase shows this: http://gnusha.org/logs/2012-09-15.log I don't know enough about the case to dig further.
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Brilliant point. It's a case of experimenting with the balance of freedom vs regulation. Perhaps it's not vital that a hotel(or taxi) is licensed today, because we can easily see its realtime feedback from previous users. But then again,
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
I have to say I saw a very similar thing with people throwing cushions around on a graduate recruitment page in about 2008 - sure it was Flash, but the end result was the same.
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Can anyone point me to what would be regarded as a best-practice PHP codebase? Ideally something that's testable. I used to do all my work in PHP but moved to Rails and adopted TDD/BDD. I'm just not sure how this would fit back in to the
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Funny how a chain of thought goes: 1. I read a few titles and thought "Hmm, I'll go and buy a few of these on Amazon." 2. Then I thought: "I already have some of these books that I never read, I could gift them to others." 3. Perhaps I coul
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Put some contact details in your profile and I'll be able to contact you.
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After the scanning I took about 2 days to OCR everything. That was fairly mindnumbing. Then it was a case of coding up a fairly simple Rails app and parsing that content - another two days. Some thinking time in the middle - I'd say a wee
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Google definitely indexes disqus comments.
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It's so hacky that it's almost certainly a competitive disadvantage. Converting to markdown is a bit of an overstatement - it only handles the limited content that I encountered in this book. - H1 heading -> ## - Strip P tags and add ne
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Sadly the HTML rendering was fairly dreadful but it did at least have the images in the correct order. It retained no placement, and each page is very different in layout. My early thought was to have perhaps 4 layouts which I could manua
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Yup, search is a solid winner.
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Yeah, I felt lucky getting the domain. But then I also loved FixingACar.com as well.
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Buy a wreck and take it to pieces and try to understand it. Then just sell it for scrap and recoup most of your money. You could even sell the parts individually and make some profit. Then try a project car - I'm surprised more hackers a
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He's not bothered - it's an experiment for both of us. If it works out then I'll see him right, but there's no point in hashing out some lengthy agreement if it doesn't bring in the bucks.
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I'm not sure on the illustrations - I'd have to ask. He wrote some of the content, but also ran the company that owned the copyright on the work. They are wonderful and I have to emphasise them some more.
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Thanks that's a great idea. It's a little more work than putting the job up on oDesk though, as I'd need to implement some mechanism for people to edit and update, and for me to vet it. The truth is, having scanned and OCRed it all, I'm si
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by AlexMuir 14y ago
Sorry I wasn't clear - I meant that traffic to the site would only go up as Google recognises meaningful content.
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Yeah that was my meaning. Adsense income once you're in a certain vertical (car repairs in my case) is just a factor of traffic. Traffic comes from Google Pagerank for this sort of site. So to be clearer, I'm hoping that Google's algorit

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