AliAdams

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Ask HN: How would you change the HN stylesheet with 10 or less lines?
1 points by AliAdams 13y ago|2 comments
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by AliAdams 13y ago
As knowledge increasingly becomes more pervasive, copyright's demise (or at least redefinition) should be inevitable, although it is going to make a big mess before this happens. The frustrating issue is how little effect any of our ou
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by AliAdams 13y ago
So we are assuming he was Mexican, moved to the US either staying at that address years ago or using it as a home address for records but not staying there. Worked as a travelling worker, somehow lost memory and either got lost or was aband
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by AliAdams 13y ago
It's new - but I'm not decided whether it is better. It feels like the loss of the 'metaphor' of a physical page/tile takes away something... but I'm not sure if that is just preference.
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by AliAdams 13y ago
I'd love to know what the background/reasoning was for another note-taking app. Sounds like a great team but like some other people have said - it doesn't look like a brilliant space to start out in.
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by AliAdams 13y ago
Successfully isolating from earth movements would be my biggest worry about a project like that. The system is going to need a good bit of flexibility built in.
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by AliAdams 13y ago
I came from an engineering background to design - My advice would be to use a few principles to get you started for UI design: - map visual hierarchy to information hierarchy (more important titles bigger) - use legacy (familiar layouts suc
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by AliAdams 13y ago
Clicked out of interest but hit a signup wall. You should put the posts up front.
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by AliAdams 13y ago
It would be interesting to try and link these numbers to some form of productivity / successfulness metric.
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by AliAdams 13y ago
If I am a cashier and occasionally accidentally give out more change than I should, surely that is wholly my own problem (a fault of my own process) and not that of the person who takes the money I gave them.
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by AliAdams 13y ago
It feels like the author is disregarding non-first order effects. Direct Facebook ads/links are not all that constitute social media.
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Ask HN: Who do you register domains with?
5 points by AliAdams 14y ago|17 comments
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by AliAdams 14y ago
TechBritain.com might eventually build in that facility. It ties in along the right lines of making the UK ecosystem more efficient at forming and supporting startups.
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by AliAdams 14y ago
Thanks for the full explanation. So are there no repercussions on the filing party unless the defending party seeks legal action? If the system is blind and you have a somewhat decent legal team you could surely hamstring your competition p
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by AliAdams 14y ago
Some really old ones: - MissionUpdate.com - UndergroundLiterature.com
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by AliAdams 14y ago
The trajectory of present technology seems to be towards a constantly greater state of communal knowledge and awareness and I can't see a way to avoid that. Once one person knows something these days, it is easier and easier every day for t
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Ask HN: Your advice for a high peak-traffic website
1 points by AliAdams 14y ago|0 comments
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by AliAdams 14y ago
Surely in this day and age, it really needs to be at least cloned to the cloud. People almost expect web-based / cloud stuff now with mobile devices and multiple places they will want access to their notes. I'm still trying to work out how
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by AliAdams 14y ago
For me it was down to networks. When people know a guy who builds websites, that guy already has a starting advantage. It may be that you'll have to work up the ladder of complexity, but you really just want a portfolio behind you. People a
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by AliAdams 14y ago
*How about something a little more mobile friendly? At the very least, a pad on clickable areas would be much appreciated (seeing the comments on a post or upvoting takes a lot of skill to hit that link with a finger point). The vertical 'i
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by AliAdams 14y ago
I'm likely speaking from the wrong culture, but the phrasing "You haven't made it until you get sued" on their home page sounds like Geocoder are attempting to spin a bit of a complement for themselves rather than going for the image of a D
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by AliAdams 15y ago
It's a slightly more complicated startup and highly seasonal so we haven't really gone down the MVP route. I only joined the team in November though when they started looking at implementation. It's true - I suspect the 5 year plan is going
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by AliAdams 15y ago
(Also, I'm the only 'tech' person on the team and am having a bit of a hard time justifying the spend at the minute...)
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by AliAdams 15y ago
Thanks for the reply Steven, Just to give you a bit of information on that front, as that is something I didn't think to mention: The company has been under development for almost 1 year part time and about 8 months full time now - we are i
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Ask HN: Which is better - a 4 letter .org or a longer .com?
2 points by AliAdams 15y ago|6 comments
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by AliAdams 15y ago
Dehumanisation could be arguably not as applicable as some of the others but it isn't difficult to see parallels between a 'number in a prison' and an avatar; In a forum, the person can address the avatar without thought of the individual (
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by AliAdams 15y ago
I remember hearing a talk by Philip Zimbardo, one of the main figures in the Stanford Prison Experiment. He concluded that 'evil' behavior is a product of a combination of: 1) Mindlessly taking the first small step (eg Milgrim Experiment -