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by evancaine 16y ago
His original point still stands. If not BP, then it would've been another company. As consumers we demand low oil prices, the oil companies cut corners to meet that demand and it has consequences.
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Tim Bray's thoughts on the BP disaster(twitter.com)
12 points by evancaine 16y ago|20 comments
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Facebook’s friendship trap(timesonline.co.uk)
44 points by evancaine 16y ago|20 comments
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Zuckerberg responds to privacy concerns(washingtonpost.com)
69 points by evancaine 16y ago|66 comments
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Why facebook is here to stay(google.com)
1 points by evancaine 16y ago|0 comments
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Hello productivity
4 points by evancaine 17y ago|2 comments
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HN designers: where are you?
1 points by evancaine 17y ago|1 comments
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This is Palm's chance
8 points by evancaine 17y ago|3 comments
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by evancaine 17y ago
Nothing. It's right there in the code base. This was a business decision by Canonical. I too would have liked to have seen an explanation as to why the change was made but at the end of the day, it's the code and not the organisation that's
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Why do Finland's schools get the best results? (news.bbc.co.uk)
42 points by evancaine 17y ago|91 comments
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by evancaine 17y ago
I'd keep the archives open on your site. An archive that large and that old will continue to drive traffic (and ad revenue..?) for some time to come. This should preserve your page rank a little longer than just letting the site die and it
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by evancaine 17y ago
On a side note, I wonder if a lot of the services listed here are really startups. Some of them have an amateur feel to them - there's nothing wrong with that - it's just that startup doesn't seem to be the best description for a lot of the
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Has google acquired pdfmenot?
1 points by evancaine 17y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: post your productivity tips/hacks in 160 characters or less
2 points by evancaine 17y ago|1 comments
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by evancaine 17y ago
Innovative design. Terrible usability. It breaks all the functionality you expect on a web page. It isn't clear where the hyperlinks are, mouse scroll doesn't work and I have to learn how to use this specific web page (!) To get an idea of
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Ask HN: what do you think are ebay's weaknesses?
1 points by evancaine 17y ago|1 comments
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by evancaine 17y ago
corrected
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How godaddy got its name (and logo)(bobparsons.me)
8 points by evancaine 17y ago|15 comments
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Think interface - not design(wildmind.tumblr.com)
1 points by evancaine 17y ago|0 comments
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Sugru - plastiscine meets blue-tack meets glue(sugru.com)
4 points by evancaine 17y ago|1 comments
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by evancaine 17y ago
Not sure this would work to be honest. People are already aware of how much effort goes into making films and music (more so than software) yet that hasn't stopped piracy. This has been discussed to death all over the web but I'm convinced
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Ask HN: what's stopping you from launching?
30 points by evancaine 17y ago|46 comments
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by evancaine 17y ago
thanks everyone for your comments. JimmyL, you make some very valid points and this is a route I'm taking hesitantly. I should have made it clear in my original post why I need to restrict signups in this way. I'm making a trading platform
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Ask HN: limiting new account registrations
6 points by evancaine 17y ago|25 comments
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by evancaine 17y ago
- a site making it easy for people to share their photo essays. There are plenty of photo sharing sites and plenty of photo essay sites from the big boys but I've yet to find a site that makes it easy for people to share their photo essays.
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by evancaine 17y ago
- chat rooms based on TV channels. Users can chat live via IM/sms/tweet about the show currently being viewed.
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by evancaine 17y ago
- an online noticeboard. When I was at uni, notices relevant to my group of students were either emailed out to everyone or uploaded as a word document to a shared drive. The former flooded my inbox with irrelevant notices, the latter was a
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by evancaine 17y ago
- an online log/journal for numeric information. You IM, tweet or email the info to the service where it gets logged for later review and analysis. Useful for keeping track of calories, exercise, mileage e.t.c
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by evancaine 17y ago
- a "proof of posting" service for email. You send emails via the service which keeps hold of a copy for x years, accessible by the sender or recipient. Useful for mailing assignments and other important documents
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Share your ideas
35 points by evancaine 17y ago|61 comments

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