matthewking

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by matthewking 15y ago
It would be interesting to see how PayPal justify this given that the customer paid you again after they reversed it, not that id count on ever getting an answer out of them. I don't think I've ever seen such terrible customer service and r
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by matthewking 15y ago
Another UK LTD company here wanting to use your service the minute its available, so many headaches to be avoided.
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by matthewking 16y ago
Nice work on that UI, simple, elegant and functional.
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by matthewking 16y ago
London, UK - Ruby on Rails I and my business partner are available for any Ruby on Rails based projects. Preferably working remotely. We're currently working with Rails 3, JQuery, Cucumber, RSpec. If anyone needs extra resources or a projec
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by matthewking 16y ago
We're looking at making the move from Rails to ASP.NET MVC. So pretty much the opposite of what you've done, and we're planning on hosting on Azure. So I read this thread with great interest. We've found that like for like the Azure platfor
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by matthewking 16y ago
Didn't look at Windows Azure as an option? http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/
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by matthewking 16y ago
You'd probably find this quite interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden
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by matthewking 17y ago
Possibly a little deep for this thread (just considering its not my thread), but my dream isn't a career change, its slightly higher - freedom from money. If money no longer plays a factor in my life, then I don't have to choose one thing
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by matthewking 17y ago
I went through a brief period where I was convinced I wanted to be a carpenter, specifically making furniture. I've also worked as a builders mate and roofer in the past both of which I enjoyed and all of which settle my desire to create so
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by matthewking 17y ago
The apple keyboard is my preference too, but the wired one with the numpad! I have no idea why they didn't make a wireless one with a numpad :(
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by matthewking 17y ago
(OSX) Textmate and Capistrano, aside from that I usually SCP files but if I have to use FTP I use Transmit. Use source control such as GIT, commit your work then its as easy as 'cap deploy' to send it to the server, no messing with files!
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by matthewking 17y ago
You're making other people rich because you're not taking risks. The people at the top are there because at some point, they quit their job and risked everything they own for some crazy idea. Everyone told them they were stupid and that the
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by matthewking 17y ago
I use pingdom, it runs on remote servers where locally run systems will fail if your datacenter loses its internet connection etc. Can't fault it but ignore the response times, I think the pingdom servers are just slow ;)
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by matthewking 17y ago
Only a film I know, but http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100318/ comes to mind, was just watching it the other day. From what everyone is saying about the specific laws in SF it all makes more sense.
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by matthewking 17y ago
Retired at 35 and sailed around the world? this guy is my hero! Well worth the paperback I should think. Another similar book I've read is Dove by Robin Lee Graham which is well worth checking out if you're into sailing. Things like this re
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by matthewking 17y ago
Dove by Robin Lee Graham
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by matthewking 17y ago
He could have had his computer, or email hacked.. have to wait to see if we hear from him before we assume he actually cleared all the accounts himself.
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by matthewking 17y ago
An advertisement? I thought the about page was a good introduction to the site, from there you can find the rest of the content without being thrown in randomly. But for those who want to go straight to the diary, here's the link: http://o
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How to Eat on a Dollar a Day(onedollardietproject.wordpress.com)
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by matthewking 17y ago
You'd be surprised how easy it is to setup something useful, my in house one is about 250~ lines (ruby) connecting with some of my own API's too for config and reporting. Previously I used advancedwebranking.com which worked well, but I onl
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by matthewking 17y ago
Google and Yahoo have search API's that you can use for these tasks without breaking TOS. Most of the software apps around use the API's if you give them your key, or you may prefer to write your own script to use the API's. Otherwise I gue
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by matthewking 17y ago
That does the job, thanks.
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by matthewking 17y ago
I just wish the "Next" arrow would stay in the same place..
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by matthewking 17y ago
Shopify.com should probably be on there..
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by matthewking 17y ago
It's a project from a few years back that failed to live up to my misguided immediate expectations. So it was put on the back burner and now and again I look back and its been making steady progress. I'll get back to it soon and see if I ca
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by matthewking 17y ago
I have a niche high market value site, generating a CPM of about $26, with a very healthy CTR. It's only a little side project and doesn't receive that much traffic, so it's certainly not my main business. But just goes to show, you don't n
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by matthewking 17y ago
I've just seen Stephen Fry tweet this, and he has 650k~ followers, looks like its gone viral.. not bad for a nights work.
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by matthewking 17y ago
I think sometimes a duplicate is valid, after all I read through HN 2-3 times a day and I still managed to miss the thread for this the first time around.
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by matthewking 17y ago
A tool as brilliant as this, combined with an audience that reads tons of articles spread all over the internet every day, surely it deserves its own thread? I can see myself using Readability to format most of the articles I read online no
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by matthewking 17y ago
Excuse my ignorance, but who is Mark Dowd? Edit: link I just found: http://taossa.com/index.php/author/mark/

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