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by hi_hi 2y ago
I would love this, but I'm afraid the genie has already been let out. The magic was due to the friction involved. Getting into a chatroom required effort. Getting the necessary programs via CD or floppy disk. Getting your modem working
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by hi_hi 2y ago
This is what I immediately think of too. Unfortunately, unless you're of a specific age and from the UK, the painful mental juggling act you have to go through every time you see TOTP won't be relatable.
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by hi_hi 2y ago
To save going down this rabbit hole again :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39262314 > https://listofdisks.com/ https://www.cpuscout.com/ https://diskprices.com/
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by hi_hi 2y ago
The site is full of gold, like https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2024/03/annual-manu... > Splendor Solis, an alchemical treatise made in Germany in the 1580s: 3.067 kg, or a flamingo standing on one
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by hi_hi 3y ago
Noooo, there's no page 370. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitiser This takes me right back to grabbing my morning cup of tea and sitting bleary eye'd while waking up and reading the latest computer news bef
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by hi_hi 3y ago
It's one he wrote, titled "An astronaut's guide to life on Earth" He's also written a children's book, which is great.
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by hi_hi 3y ago
> Before I started keeping this kind of list, I brought up problem I saw immediately, as soon as I noticed it. The reputation I got was, "Nat's always complaining about things. Nat thinks we're never doing things right.&qu
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by hi_hi 3y ago
Getting in is the easy part :-) This happened to me recently. The crazy thing (to me) is I received the required 3 sales, which I assumed would be the objective validation required. I'm also interested if anyone managed to talk to reas
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by hi_hi 3y ago
I had to check what that was. I'd love to add it, along with any other useful metrics that people would find useful, but I'd be surprised if that detail was available in the provided Amazon info (web page).
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by hi_hi 3y ago
No trade secret here, it is indeed simple web scraping. Although as noted, Amazon does provide a product API, if you qualify with 3 sales, which I did, and was then promptly ejected from the affiliates program by Amazon. I'm honestly n
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by hi_hi 3y ago
There's a whole host of these, which is great, thats been listed recently at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39262314 This one's mine https://listofdisks.com/ :-) The faceted search approach
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by hi_hi 3y ago
This is cool and all, but "Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should" I'm assuming these things are seedless, so they won't start popping up and spreadin
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by hi_hi 3y ago
I was hoping there would be a section for Search Engines. It's one of those things you tend to get locked in to, and it's hard to clearly know your requirements well enough early on. Any references to something like this with a Se
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by hi_hi 3y ago
Yep, I'm fighting this battle at the moment. I got the required 3 sales, but then they rejected me a few days later. From the rejection email "Your website/app did not meet our content standards as the content on your site is
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by hi_hi 3y ago
I'm another fan of diskprices.com :-) https://listofdisks.com/ The Aus version went offline for a while so I built this quickly. The day I launched it came back online haha. Oh well, was a fun experience. Initially was