lancashire

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by lancashire 7mo ago
I can vouch for people still there. I’m a Brit who married an Iranian who still has a large family in Iran. With the exception of one religious aunt who is married to a military man, all the Iranian family and friends we know have been hopi
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by lancashire 7mo ago
I don't claim to have the answers, and don't necessarily disagree with you. But that's how the Iranians I know insider Iran feel. That there was pain ahead of them with or without intervention.
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by lancashire 7mo ago
I’m a Brit, married to an Iranian who still has a large family in Iran. I’ve got to witness first hand quite the opposite to what you describe, at least with the British mainstream media. With the exception of one religious aunt who is marr
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A font for clients who do not understand Latin(blokkfont.com)
5 points by lancashire 14y ago|2 comments
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by lancashire 14y ago
I've always liked Steve Blank's definition: "A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model." I would say Dropbox has found a repeatable and scalable business model.
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by lancashire 14y ago
Great job! I recently created a similar service: http://cvlift.co.uk Your application is much better though. I used prawn as opposed to wicked_pdf to generate the PDFs. Did you do any handling of content spilling over onto multiple pages?
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Developing for old browsers is (almost) a thing of the past(37signals.com)
42 points by lancashire 15y ago|36 comments
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Telltale signs that you're working at a "sinking ship" company(quora.com)
5 points by lancashire 15y ago|0 comments
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How to register a company in the UK(swombat.com)
121 points by lancashire 15y ago|75 comments
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by lancashire 15y ago
I think a "make email visible" checkbox would clear up any confusion here.
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by lancashire 15y ago
http://karmurl.com - give feedback to receive feedback.
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by lancashire 15y ago
Thanks for the ideas. You can now edit the submission. I am considering the reply functionality, I just wouldn't want it to compromise the simplicity.
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by lancashire 15y ago
It was a midweek side project so there was never a business model in mind. I tried starting up http://kennelboard.com , but it never really took off (selling and developing is hard on your own), so I'm now looking for a job and hoping that
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by lancashire 15y ago
Karmurl is a free and simple way of getting instant feedback for your work. You give feedback to receive feedback. The idea was inspired by a comment made by photon_off ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1683309 ). I should mention that
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Show HN: Karmurl - give feedback to receive feedback(karmurl.com)
2 points by lancashire 15y ago|1 comments
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by lancashire 15y ago
Thanks. That's a really good idea. I just put it together in a few hours and hadn't thought that far ahead :)
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by lancashire 15y ago
Thank you!
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Show HN: My midweek project - karmurl
26 points by lancashire 15y ago|15 comments
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by lancashire 15y ago
For the life of me I can't understand why Apple decided to remove hex values from their color picker with Lion. This is a great alternative, the copy shortcut is very handy.
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by lancashire 16y ago
Surely it depends what your goal is. You wouldn't leave your job to build apps, but you might to build a business. Of course apps are fun to build. But making something profitable involves doing a lot of things which are not fun, marketing
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by lancashire 16y ago
I saved up enough money to leave my job and build a niche software product. Fingers crossed, it will be launching early 2011. It's terrifying, and I'm broke, but I have learned I am infinitely happier when I'm calling my own shots. My hope
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by lancashire 16y ago
Let's hope so.
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by lancashire 16y ago
Don't show him Google Calendar.
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Three little words so hard to say - "I don't know"(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by lancashire 18y ago|0 comments
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'Space elevator' would take humans into orbit(edition.cnn.com)
4 points by lancashire 18y ago|10 comments
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by lancashire 18y ago
I took a new entrepreneurial module for computer scientists in my last year of university. It was a nice idea but in truth we would have all been better off if we'd been given a link to pg's essays and been told to go home.
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by lancashire 18y ago
A collection of problems would be more valuable.
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by lancashire 18y ago
True, although I suppose if they put "houseless" you probably wouldn't have read it...
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by lancashire 18y ago
Idea 1: Keep the number of ideas in which you simplify your life manageable.
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by lancashire 18y ago
I may well be alone in this view and I really don't want to sound rude but personally I just can't get excited about another one of these sites. It seems the successful ones (e.g. hotornot) in this area were the ones which were both origina

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