alastair

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by alastair 16y ago
Apple spells the iPhone outright in Australia (and other markets). It's $859AUD for the 16GB which is about $780USD.
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by alastair 16y ago
I always thought it was people borrowing from 37signals. I don't really have a problem with it, looks good enough and if the product works who cares.
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by alastair 17y ago
Most of the time, this is the best way to do it (financially speaking) - alot of people still like to live in a house they "own" though.
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by alastair 17y ago
I've found http://www.railstutorial.org/ to be a great introduction to RoR.
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by alastair 17y ago
google should most definitely be scared. they make something like 90% of their profit from advertising - advertising based on your search query or the context of the page you're reading. facebook's ad platform has the potential to destory t
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Ask HN: Best task management software for small teams?
7 points by alastair 17y ago|5 comments
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by alastair 17y ago
I've been using it today and it's really polished. Three or four taps and you're broadcasting your location to your friend, or co-worker... no signs ups required for either party. It seems pretty safe to because you set a timer on the broad
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Glympse Brings Real-Time Location Sharing To Facebook(techcrunch.com)
2 points by alastair 17y ago|1 comments
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by alastair 17y ago
Agree with much of what you've said. I think opera have nailed the tab switching UI, its so much quicker to use then safari. Couple of things I dont like - They've implemented their own copy/paste controls. I guess this is nessesary due to
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by alastair 17y ago
http://keepass.info/help/base/multiuser.html
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by alastair 17y ago
pretty embarrassing for all involved. backups not running for a month? no excuses.
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by alastair 17y ago
I agree that forcing content to be framed with the 'diggbar' is annoying/wrong/bad/etc, but I kind of like it as an optional feature. It can be very handy when you open a bunch of links from the main page at once, and then forget what the h
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by alastair 17y ago
on a similar note, a great article on why a fixed income is a 'sucker bet' - http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/09/a-fixed-income-is-a...
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by alastair 17y ago
if you just want something simple and secure, maybe you should consider jekyll ( http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll ) or another static site generator. this way there are no scripts running server-side, just plain and simple html.
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by alastair 17y ago
I really like the idea behind Square, but are customers really going to trust a dongle hanging out the end of someone's phone? Whats to stop someone reverse engineering the dongle and creating a spoofed client that just records the data ins
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by alastair 17y ago
Move to Australia. Most of our banks offer 12mth term-deposit returns of 6% or greater on deposits >$50,000. For deposits >$1mil the rates are negotiable.
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by alastair 17y ago
Sounds like the eventual goal of the Reprap project. "RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is the practical self-copying 3D printer" - See http://reprap.org/ for more info.
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by alastair 17y ago
dont know if 'very big and heavy' is how i would describe the air
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by alastair 17y ago
I think the days of an invincible google are clearly over. Their brand is diluted (imho) with countless products, I think that at least for search - someone could beat them. Eg, If facebook bought or built a search engine, it could be 'game
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by alastair 17y ago
My thoughts - 1) I really like the landing page. It explains exactly what you guys do very quickly and it just looks great. 2) I'm a big fan of no-signup demos. I wanted to play with it, but not so much that I'd go through the proccess of s