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by eli_s 16y ago
Article mentions: 'The only thing I can foresee that could prevent the widespread adoption of manycore mainstream systems in the next decade would be a complete failure to find and build some key parallel killer apps' I'm no expert in thi
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by eli_s 16y ago
yeah I tried various review sites and newegg reviews but they all reeked of spam. I don't understand why the big G doesn't immediately ban all spam sites. They take about 0.1 seconds to identify by a human viewer. Obviously not suggesting t
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by eli_s 16y ago
I think Matt has his work cut out for him. There is a tonne of content that Google is having trouble weeding spam from. Try searching for ' anything review' and you'll get 99.99% spam. Made it very difficult for me to make an informed choi
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by eli_s 16y ago
nice - thanks for the heads up :) now why is news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=eli_s a magic link that can't be found on the main nav? oops... just found it in my profile page. not the best spot to put it :S
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by eli_s 16y ago
not as effective as categories for stories.
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by eli_s 16y ago
My personal favourite would be to have 10 or so official sub HNs and not to allow people to create their own. My list would include Entrepreneurship, Tech Web, Tech Other
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by eli_s 16y ago
search only works when you know what you're searching for :) I only had a vague idea of what I was looking for.
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HN is getting too big
24 points by eli_s 16y ago|26 comments
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by eli_s 16y ago
awesome read. very funny in parts. a couple of gems: 'I was talking, nodding absent-mindedly to myself, engaged in a pretend conversation with my pants' and 'Nothing had prepared me for a meeting. Therefore I decided on the smartest poss
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by eli_s 16y ago
Oops I read '1080p Full HD video playback' as 'has a full HD screen' - wishful thinking maybe :)
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by eli_s 16y ago
I don't see how their price point can be lower since they are using commodity components. Their contribution is the software+hardware combo. In fact they will probably never come even close to competing on price. Hardware is a tricky game a
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by eli_s 16y ago
Great looking product - they'll have a hard time out-marketing Apple though. This seems like a market where second place is as good as dead. Good luck to them. As a side note - there's at least a billion dollars to be made by the first comp
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by eli_s 16y ago
This is just about the stupidest thing i have ever read. From one of Sachin's comment 'Users would want to use your product and therefore they would switch to Chrome. Other browser would lose market share and either implement whatever makes
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by eli_s 16y ago
Would you prefer that someone who bought a shrink-wrapped copy of Windows XP at Best Buy 6 years ago suddenly discovers that their computer/browser stopped working as it should Yes. Happens all the time. My Toshiba Techra A6 made in '06 w
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by eli_s 16y ago
I guess at some point mining our solar system will become technologically and economically feasible. Maybe waiting for and 'roping in' a passing Asteroid would also work - aren't those things chock full of useful elements?
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by eli_s 16y ago
Seems that a number of these alternatives are unfeasible (given current tech) since net energy figures are negative ie it takes more than 1 barrel of oil to produce a single barrel. Of course we're banking on technology solving these issues
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by eli_s 16y ago
of course it goes without saying that a framework should have an extension mechanism that allows you to build custom widgets (and Ext does). It's also nice when you don't have to build a treeview or grid with pagination and sorting and ed
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by eli_s 16y ago
Since the OP is asking for UI frameworks I assume you're both referring to JQueryUI. A UI framework is only as good as the widgets it ships with and looks to me like JQueryUI is a bit light on in this regard. Certainly a good framework for
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by eli_s 16y ago
ExtJS is my personal favourite - amazing collection of ready-to-go components, very good doco, a strong community, loads of extensions etc. The performance is also very good. There have been some issues regarding licensing with some OS puri
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by eli_s 16y ago
Great article. keeping this advice in mind can help alleviate entrepreneur paralysis; instead of wasting time trying to discover the next big thing, just pick an industry which you have some interest in and improve existing tools in some wa
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by eli_s 17y ago
If you are going from HTML -> PDF then by far the best tool I have found is princeXML. Outstanding HTML -> PDF rendering with automatic TOC, page numbering, splitting tables across pages. Excellent CSS and SVG support. Pricing is re
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by eli_s 17y ago
You mean during the break time? Not at all. The school closes down and we are told to come back the same day as the students do :) There are about 5 Professional Development days per year and these are conducted before the end of the school
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by eli_s 17y ago
Wow reading some of these comments makes me realise how good I have it as a teacher in Australia. We have 13 Weeks paid leave per year. 2 weeks for every 10 weeks worked, and then 6.5 weeks break over Christmas. On top of that we have 10 da
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by eli_s 17y ago
they get treated as separate sites so your raking gets diluted
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by eli_s 17y ago
Thanks rms I appreciate the feedback. I think you're right that the success of this product really boils down to a marketing challenge. I guess that applies to all products, but maybe more so when dealing with so much competition.
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by eli_s 17y ago
Thanks for taking the time to give me feedback. Could you elaborate on 'the features of your site are not particularly compelling to me'. Would help me to build a better product :)
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by eli_s 17y ago
Some good advice here cheers :) The customer that originally wanted printed advertising was my dad :) He'd been struggling with keeping his printed advertising in line with his website for some time. The product I'm building was originally
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by eli_s 17y ago
yeah that was my first thought too, but they don't allow commercial videos - even for their paid account :( Are you getting slow download of the video? It's hosted on amazon s3 so should be ok.
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by eli_s 17y ago
I suppose it comes down to human psychology. People are more used to entering CC info on a secure site (https padlock icon all that) rather than their desktop apps. Maybe the easiest solution would be to send users to a secure URL?
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Ask HN: Opinions on New Business Launch
7 points by eli_s 17y ago|9 comments

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