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by ed209 14y ago
I bought myself one off ebay for a couple of hundred pounds, has a little up/down controller which takes no more than a few seconds. I sit more than I stand, but it's a nice break. Not sure how I'd feel about this in a office though! http:
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by ed209 14y ago
although not a reality show, there was a BBC drama about building a startup around 2000 called Attachments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachments_(TV_series)
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by ed209 14y ago
Same goes for newsletters / emails that I joined via a splash page or holding page. At the very top of the email tell me: 1. You're receiving this email because you joined XXXX's beta waiting list on xx June 2012 2. XXXX is a pro
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by ed209 14y ago
that would assume that there is a center to the universe. I'm not sure there is (speaking as the lay-est of laypeople). There are articles on the topic which I won't embarras myself by summarising in a HN comment... http://www.quora.com/Th
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by ed209 14y ago
Love Hamburg, a great place for sure (I freelance there). Although best kitesurfing spot is about 150km up the road at st peter-ording. But actually I meant Uk coast to stay near family :)
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by ed209 14y ago
Is it just the capitals / large cities that struggle? There must be pockets of talent all over the UK and Europe. I particularly don't want to move to a capital / large city. But I would move for a company based near the coast for example.
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by ed209 14y ago
where are these companies posting jobs?
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by ed209 14y ago
I use photoshop to sketch ideas or for some more complicated parts of a design. But in layout and styling terms I work directly in HTML/CSS. I actually started doing it this was because products like TypeKit don't supply the fonts to use in
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Europe Joins The Talent Wars(techcrunch.com)
31 points by ed209 14y ago|18 comments
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by ed209 14y ago
> Just make sure it's not the only place you store it. This is the main problem for me. I'd love to have my working files (say photoshop files) in dropbox so I could access them on any mac I use, but I don't trust it to hold the maste
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by ed209 14y ago
I was having trouble loading the full cached version, figured images were the cause. Thanks for that though, full cache seems to be loading ok now.
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by ed209 14y ago
text only cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BZM_fc5...
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by ed209 14y ago
the bounce is a bit harsh I'll admit. but the point I wanted to make was that if I don't want that type of message then return the message to sender. i.e. if I don't have a to-do list app registered, don't send me a to-do.
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by ed209 14y ago
It's not about a to-do list. Email is a generic container. It can contain to-do's, sure. But it might also be a letter from a friend, an invitation to a wedding, a mailer about discounted products. The way to improve this is to redirect ema
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by ed209 14y ago
Your comment makes HN a worse place to be, in two articles you know enough to hate them? What should actually be happening is constructive criticism and lessons for all of us to learn from. At least they tried, at least they put it out ther
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by ed209 14y ago
problem here is that when I post publicly for the benefit of subscribers, my friends and family also get that stuff - and they are totally not interested in it.
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by ed209 14y ago
I did this for SXSW and was great. They have some really useful planning tools and actually much better than what SXSW provided themselves.
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by ed209 14y ago
I've been thinking of moving to the Bay area for a while from the UK. Everyone I follow / engage with seems to be there so it seems like a good place to go. One thing I'm hearing though is that companies are not that interested in hiring H1
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by ed209 14y ago
> PayPal ... and even people who hate it use it [imo] should read and even people who hate it _have to_ use it
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by ed209 14y ago
>Why would the landlord want a middleman in this case? for the reason I stated, someone to look after the place while multiple Airbnb guests come and go. Otherwise you'll need to pay for a cleaner and check the place every time someone
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by ed209 14y ago
"If your landlord was interested in running a tenement home/boarding house/hotel" - then he would have to staff it himself too, promote it and take the risk of no bookings. With a tenant he has someone making sure the place is looked after
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by ed209 14y ago
People get murdered in hotels [1] and raped in hotels [2] and no doubt have things stolen. We should really judge this on the data and see if the incidence of crime is higher in Airbnb cases. [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-irela
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by ed209 14y ago
> Visual aesthetics are rarely enough. Getting a product into the hands of potential customers is important. The problem here is that 6 or 8 years ago, building a basic product was a lot harder than it is today. I'm a designer and I u
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Google staff 'knew of wi-fi snooping'(bbc.co.uk)
56 points by ed209 14y ago|33 comments
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by ed209 14y ago
there are cases of people losing access to gmail because they didn't add their real name into Google+ which is a pretty trivial action. the problem is that essential work products like gmail and drive are bundled with social elements like g
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by ed209 14y ago
If I'm in planning mode and I don't know where I should go eat burgers on Friday, I don't want to know where _not_ to go, I want to know where I should go. Of course, if I want to look a specific place or product, pos and neg reviews are us
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by ed209 14y ago
It would be interesting to see a crowd-sourced recommendation site based only on positive recommendations. Something like a Net Promoter score to tell me where is good. i.e. you can only leave feedback for a place if you would actually reco
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by ed209 14y ago
from what I remember Ryan has been doing this for a long time. Probably during the time that most of us were thinking - oh shit I better work weekends as well. I don't know how he did it, but his posts suggest he built the company this way,
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by ed209 14y ago
try and get my mum to use s3 :)
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by ed209 14y ago
although they seem to be charing a VAT rate of 23% http://cl.ly/1g382s2t1P290Y0i2V3S - which I can't see any reference to in the VAT rates guide for the UK http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/vat/forms-rates/rates/rates.htm

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