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by ladon86 16y ago
Sort of, but there is a grey area between what people think they need and what the NHS thinks is necessary. My mum is a head nurse and has to fill out a 10+ page assessment of the patient's needs which determines what level of at-home care
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by ladon86 16y ago
My friend's sole trading business has an 0845 number which goes straight to voicemail. On day, he started to receive truly heartbreaking messages of financial hardship, people unable to pay medical bills for their parents, that kind of thin
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by ladon86 16y ago
Obviously you guys were a good fit for YC, both in terms of culture and ability. What I wonder is, what percentage of applications are completely unsuitable for YC? What percentage of applications can basically be ruled out as competition?
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by ladon86 16y ago
I worked with a guy (I won't name the company) who wrote Java code in one, huge, static class as much as possible. In fact, everything was largely in one function too. He decided to name his fields alphabetically. static int a static int b
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by ladon86 16y ago
One Core i7 box with 8GB ram and a second database slave (for replication) with only 1GB of ram. I was running node.js, mongodb and redis all on the same box. I believe it could have handled a lot more, because it wasn't really breaking a s
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by ladon86 16y ago
I think this is fast becoming a stack of sorts - I just used it on an app and it scaled to 400 concurrent users beautifully.
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by ladon86 16y ago
I agree 100% on the pricing. You may have your reasons, but whatever they are, an extra $50 is not enough. Perhaps you've found that real estate agents don't like metered pricing. That's cool, but I think you need to develop some kind of va
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by ladon86 16y ago
Great idea, very simple and instantly cross-platform.
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by ladon86 16y ago
Because there is little benefit to the economy if we just dream up ideas with no intention of implementing them, and then sell (for millions of dollars it seems) a piece of paper preventing other people from implementing the idea. I don't a
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by ladon86 16y ago
Specifically, Windows actually checked whether SimCity was running and then allocated memory differently if it was. Joel Spolsky talks about it in this old article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html
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Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly(google.com)
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by ladon86 16y ago
Oh! I think it's because I'm using the 'chromeless' YouTube player, not very usable. Double click for full screen, single click for play and pause. I'll fix that, thanks for the heads up.
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by ladon86 16y ago
> Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid? Awesome, I think I've done this. My software lets the student pay to sit with a girl he likes at dinner, anony
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by ladon86 16y ago
Is the change live yet? I remember an example provided here was "nstoolbar bottom bar". Let's take a look: http://www.google.com/search?q=nstoolbar+bottom+bar Granted, it was probably linked from HN somwhere which will have made matters w
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by ladon86 16y ago
Look at what makes you different. The twitter integration is brilliant, it means you can have much faster, realtime conversations bouncing off twitter. That's your angle. Make the 'Share on Twitter' button more... meaningful. What it really
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by ladon86 16y ago
Thanks to whoever wrote "skillz" next to my portrait of pg :) And nice app, it would benefit from a little chat box though.
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by ladon86 16y ago
Which city? I've seen a whole bunch of people in London standing on street corners using their iPads. Granted they do look pretty silly... But I would certainly not say that the iPad has been a 'huge disappointment'; not for Apple, and not
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by ladon86 16y ago
Web workers and web sockets I would find very useful.
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by ladon86 16y ago
They're pretty close to having a monopoly on paid digital music downloads, and perhaps portable music devices, and they're shutting out competitor streaming music services with this move.
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by ladon86 16y ago
OK, so I'm running mongodb on the same machine as redis. I do have mongodb replicated across two other machines, but could you briefly shed light on what the problems between redis and mongo on a single box were?
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by ladon86 16y ago
That's just the query string - is the HTTP referrer removed from the header?
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by ladon86 16y ago
I assume that when you block a site, Google are sent the search term as well as the site you blocked. Assuming that this is the case, it isn't very helpful to search for 'mahalo.com' and then block mahalo.com. What do you think should rank
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by ladon86 16y ago
Are there any previous participants in this programme willing to say a few words about the experience?
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by ladon86 16y ago
Nice app, but do you think you could make the pricing more prominent? It's not a lot to charge, you don't have to be scared of it! I only found it after clicking the FAQ link at the top, and even the signup screen is asking me to authorise
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by ladon86 16y ago
No problem! The business is still in relative stealth right now, but it's basically a way of raising money for charity events, so the high revenue figure belies the fact that I'll be passing on a majority of the cash to charity. We're still
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by ladon86 16y ago
I said I'd update HN on my PayPal experience so here it is. I've been using this feature (embedded payments) with the microtransaction fee schedule since last Friday, and have collected around £1,500 with no problems or account limitations.
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by ladon86 16y ago
Any word on express.js and connect compatibility?
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by ladon86 16y ago
Ah, but the #! is probably just using JS to access a well-defined API - the same API which anyone else can access in completely uncluttered, machine-readable form. So perhaps the solution is for every #! page to have a meta tag pointing to
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by ladon86 16y ago
Right, but they're not really allowed. They're breaking the TOS and they haven't been reported yet.
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by ladon86 16y ago
I thought it would only sync to a single folder on my Dropbox, but no, I can edit any text file AND it has syntax highlighting. Very neat and useful, thanks.

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