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by albahk 16y ago
YC will attract an even larger following and the signal/noise ratio of applicants will become a problem in itself. The benefits of YC are clear so people will start to make it their goal to get into YC rather than build a great company. Th
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by albahk 16y ago
How to get Rich - by Felix Dennis He writes in a direct, no-nonsense way about how he made his millions and he appears to honestly reflect on both the positive and negative results of his wealth. The title betrays the content slightly as it
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by albahk 16y ago
Good point about waiting for things to really annoy you before promoting to the admin panel. I'm wary of spending too much time on this given the userbase is 1. When you say auth access, do you mean a .htaccess password over SSL? I had not
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Ask HN: How do you implement site Admin?
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by albahk 16y ago
I am on a 1024x768 laptop and apart from the horizontal scrollbar being a little annoying, I can only see "Ch" something link in the top-right of the screen. Its your choice as to what screen sizes you support, but it seems possible to acco
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by albahk 16y ago
FYI. The contact link in the footer of homepage should have a "mailto:" before it.
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by albahk 16y ago
Maybe you could have some helpful presets to present some results quickly i.e. - 18-24 year old male looking to go nuts <click here> - adventurous couple with young kids <click here> - boring, retired couple who are scared o
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by albahk 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492984 I posted this on HN a while back when I was looking at a new internet provider. I didn't choose the 1Gbps but got a 100mbps instead with a bundled package. Using speedtest.net to a HK-based serv
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by albahk 16y ago
This may be obvious to many, but with regards to the Legal system and contract law Hong Kong is nothing like China. The Legal System in HK is based upon English Law and is very robust. You can be assured of a fair and balanced legal system
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by albahk 16y ago
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by albahk 16y ago
Off-topic - In China, they use the following format 1965-07-31 which to me as a geek makes a lot more sense. From largest unit to smallest. It also conveniently auto-sorts in chronological order if you name files like this.
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by albahk 16y ago
A secure dashboard for my websites or projects where I can see data pulled from Google Analytics/Mixpanel, sales, domain expiry alerts, pingdom uptime, server load, monitoring stats etc. To quickly check all these things requires a signific
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by albahk 16y ago
This feels like a poorly researched article - did the author even leave the Google Maps website to write it? China is facing a huge problem of domestic migration away from the poorer country-side and inland/western regions to the more devel
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by albahk 16y ago
FTA "Facebook is gobbling up user data left and right, that's the price for the power, convenience and security the company's identity services offer" I consider that price far too high. If your site looks like it just crawled out of an o
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by albahk 16y ago
Screen shots would be nice - I've been thinking of moving over from Mediatemple DV but do not really want to spend too much time configuring a server from the command line. edit: screenshots on the linode site http://www.linode.com/feature
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by albahk 16y ago
Going to a shell, telnet'ing to port 80 and getting back a bunch of HTML. At that particular time and level of knowledge that was a huge A-Ha moment for me. Teh internet is just text sent over a series of pipes ;)
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by albahk 16y ago
Re: mundane things I do - When I sit down to start 'producing' something I will write a short list of to-do items (as few as 3-4) and try to cross off the first one as soon as possible. This first thing could be "purchase xyz domain" or "do
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by albahk 16y ago
My email fields are usually varchar(128) - which seems like a nice round number to me.
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by albahk 16y ago
Point made but I think it ignores the underlying reason we have $15 website templates in the market. The crowd on HN should remember that businesses of all sizes have had it drilled into them for the last 10 years that they need to be "onli
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by albahk 16y ago
"Top 10 reasons why Smashing Magazine is successful". They do write link-bait titles, but I rarely regret reading their articles as they are well-written and usually link to a lot of good, free resources. I see a lot of sites that take SEO,
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by albahk 16y ago
A good template is Automattic's Privacy policy which they have made available for anyone to copy and use. http://automattic.com/privacy/
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by albahk 16y ago
Also try http://www.officesnapshots.com
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by albahk 16y ago
"Chinese passenger train" or "Passenger train in China". China passenger train sounds wrong although I cannot explain why.
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by albahk 16y ago
Did it become Google Refine? Its a downloadable app that creates a local webserver to run in a browser. http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/
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by albahk 16y ago
Check out Boot! HK which launched a few weeks ago in HK. They are only new but the guys behind it have organised some very successful events in Hong Kong. http://boot.hk is the site for the Hacker Space. They also run http://startupshk.c
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by albahk 16y ago
I clicked through to his blog and it appears he was one of the Seth Godin interns. The tone of his writing and constant links to others with own-name domains now makes more sense... as do their Squidoo pages.
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by albahk 16y ago
Bought it. Now finally going to integrate funnel analytics. Thanks for the great deal and kick in the ass!
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by albahk 16y ago
Since 2001 I haven't had a programming job. I did not finish my engineering degree (got a Finance/Mandarin degree instead) I work in an unrelated industry (real estate) so I placed a caveat on my story for the OP who requested 'Professional
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by albahk 16y ago
I have to go to the US next year for a family gathering and I seriously would rather not go at all because of this ridiculous TSA stuff.
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by albahk 16y ago
After high school I got a data entry role in a Satellite broadcaster's IT department doing Crystal Reports templates for boring subscriber reports (i.e. how many subscribers in this region cancelled last month). I picked up SQL and VB6 doin

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