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by albahk 16y ago
My meaning is that those sites listed above are well designed because they need to be. A designer won't pay money to list their company on a crap template monster website that you code up in a weekend. Having a good-looking website is r
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by albahk 16y ago
Disqus seems to be on a tear - congratulations to them. <cynical rant> Of the big internet companies, which of them develop features in-house and don't rely upon external plugins/apis? Facebook (photos, comments, feeds, ads, login)
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by albahk 16y ago
Meta comment on terrible experience from Forbes website: * Interstitial ad after clicking through; * Short article spread over 2 pages unnecessarily; * Hitting 'back' to return to HN a survey form pops up which I had to dismiss before I cou
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by albahk 16y ago
I agree in principle, most of the time. Consider though, certain sites will require good design from day one. A 'totally rough' site would not give you the credibility you need to even get started and acquire customer #1. The MVP mantra is
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by albahk 16y ago
I didn't consider offering equity. I understand it's common but I have a (possibly irrational) aversion to giving away any part of my company. To the point where I would rather do freelance work to get the money and pay the designer.
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Ask HN: How much did you spend on Design of v1?
3 points by albahk 16y ago|6 comments
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by albahk 16y ago
You cannot meaningfully compare valuations of a public and non-public company. eBay has to disclose honestly (under threat of tough securities laws) all its financial information and major decisions to analysts who look for weaknesses and h
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by albahk 16y ago
Maybe I am showing my age here, but years ago we had a link in the footer right next to "contact" and "about us" called "feedback. And you clicked on that link, submitted your feedback and it worked fine. Does a feedback tab really need to
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by albahk 16y ago
If you are going to a country that speaks a different language my advice is to enroll in a beginners language course as soon as you get there. This will give you some structured activity to do for the first few weeks and will aquaint you wi
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Ask HN: How to do online jobs better?
14 points by albahk 16y ago|19 comments
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by albahk 16y ago
In Hong Kong the 'close' buttons really do work in the majority of elevators and they show at least 50 times more wear and tear than any other button. It shows how damn impatient we are in HK.
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by albahk 16y ago
Not only upvoted you, but I had an identical reaction and conclusion.
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by albahk 16y ago
Living in HK and having seen a few Bruce Lee movies I studied Wing Chun when I was young. The appeal to me was the sifu (Ng Chun Hong) was an older kung fu master who had trained since his childhood. This guy had forearms like iron bars and
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by albahk 16y ago
I have a 4.5 month old daughter and my life has changed in the following ways: - every day is much more structured around the baby. Get home from work, feed her, put her to bed at 8:30pm, she wakes up at 6am, feed her, go to work, etc. -Its
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by albahk 16y ago
Serious question: If you are registering and presumably renewing 1 million domains did the company consider becoming a registrar to save money and make it easier to own/manage that many domains?
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by albahk 16y ago
I have been on the receiving end of these machine gun emails from recruiters and I've noticed something that is so obvious it may be redundant to say it here. The recruiters receive details of a job-opening from a company (hey, we're hiring
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by albahk 16y ago
Yes, I would pay an upfront cost but not a recurring monthly thing. For example, I have a LAMP project I want to run on a VPS and will only access the server over SSH. You could go in and rip out all the crap like FTP servers, mail servers,
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by albahk 16y ago
If blackhats were not using SEO to game Search engine results and rankings, they would be using some other method to game other systems like webrings (remember those?), website directories or just good old email spam. Silver lining: SEO rul
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by albahk 16y ago
An App to manage all my scanned documents. Interface like iTunes, but each document can be a PDF/TIFF or emailed document I want to save and archive forever - like each month I scan my bills, my current lease, my employment contract, birth
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by albahk 16y ago
+1 Phing. We use Phing for deploying to production and deploying a staging instance of the app. Phing can checkout from SVN, run a mysqldump to snapshot the DB, modify text files (i.e. different .htaccess files for staging/production), run
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by albahk 16y ago
I would not go so far as to say I am outraged. Using any site, paid or free is an individual value judgement. Many people may be happy to have competitors, potential new recruits, bosses and employees know you viewed their profile - for me
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by albahk 16y ago
When Linkedin released this modal feature - i.e. if you don't agree to release more information to everyone, then we will restrict your usage rights - I placed Linkedin alongside Facebook into the basket of sites where I will actively try t
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by albahk 16y ago
Check out this blog by a couple of HN'ers doing a startup in Singapore: http://nakedstartup.com/2010/04/singapore-is-nice-but-its-no... The Startup: http://www.gameplanapp.com I have no affiliation with them, just been reading their bl
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by albahk 16y ago
I can identify with elements of what you are going through, but I cannot add anything to explain the why behind them. I remind myself though, that what you see in others around you is the polished exterior surface of their lives, which many
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by albahk 16y ago
This is old news - James Cameron already made a documentary about this place. edit: My point here, not well made, was that the potential of a discovery of this magnitude, i.e. a virgin planet capable of sustaining humans etc will eventually
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Linkbait existed before the Internet (*)
2 points by albahk 16y ago|2 comments
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by albahk 16y ago
Undertake a small 'home-improvement' task that takes no more than an hour or two. After spending so much time in computer systems solving problems, fixing a real-life bug or enhancement in my flat is strangely satisfying. e.g. - finally
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by albahk 16y ago
I too have felt its a bit strange to write down your name, phone number, maybe some other piece of contact info and submit it in order to say I want to retain my privacy and not have my contact details released to marketers. How long until
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by albahk 16y ago
I am doing the same, but in Hong Kong its called a Limited Liability (Ltd) company. My main reason is for subscribers that have recurring subscriptions through Paypal and where there is no way to transfer payments from "Joe Citizen" to "Joe
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by albahk 16y ago
30 - I actively 'dislike' social situations that require the well-worn path of meeting someone, breaking through the glass wall of politeness and actually talking about something interesting and pretending to be interested in what they are

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