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by neil_s 10y ago
Yes, you kinda did. User research is very hard to believe when users aren't putting their money where their mouth is. It doesn't even matter if you take users to a credit card form and then throw away their card details. The fact
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by neil_s 10y ago
Is it just me that sees a legitimate need for close-hold embargoes in specific cases? In this case, the FDA was releasing new rules that would affect medical device manufacturers and hence their stock prices. If reporters went around aski
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by neil_s 10y ago
Just shut down a company because we fell into some of these pitfalls. Such a great article to remember next time.
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by neil_s 10y ago
Anyone know what kinds of small businesses this article, and the previous ones they've linked to, are referring to? I imagine running a donut shop is a very different beast from running a bespoke software development house or a plumbin
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by neil_s 10y ago
You have a PhD in Computer Science, and are heavily bought-in to astrology? May I ask what attracted you to it?
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by neil_s 10y ago
Wow, that sounds like a modern version of Tony Hsieh's LinkExchange, from the 90s. Glad that the model is still working. How did you go about signing up such impressive publishers? Was it organic, or did you hustle to make it happen?
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by neil_s 10y ago
Haha this is amazing! We were already considering moving into a cheaper part of Europe when we got focused on coding rather than BD, this just makes our decision a bit easier
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by neil_s 10y ago
Is anyone on HN familiar with this industry? Are there any reasons that simple GPS tracking of the goods wouldn't work? Or is it simply not as big of an issue as this article is making it out to be?
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by neil_s 10y ago
This is so awesome, great way to understand the current options and common choices in the ecosystem at a glance. I've been choosing Meteor recently precisely to avoid having to write a bunch of boilerplate Gulp/Grunt code to piece
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by neil_s 10y ago
Such a great tool - simple to learn, but powerful to run any Node app. However, after playing around with the closed beta for a while, I've struggled to find a good use case. The one rare case is when a bug in some Node-stack applicati
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by neil_s 10y ago
In other news, How Uber is Changing LARPing - LARPers use Ubers to get around. I usually love Vice, but this is nonsense.
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by neil_s 10y ago
I don't understand, what's the big story here? Amazon offers free shipping to a remote place, whereas normal grocery shops pass the high shipping costs on to consumers. So guy living in this place is using Amazon for the food shop
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by neil_s 10y ago
Haha, this is the digital version of the Indian phenomenon of 'missed calls', used as 1-bit 0-cost notification mechanism. It's become such a cultural artifact, that big companies are now advertising numbers you can 'mis
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by neil_s 11y ago
What's more worrying to me than the enumerating of all short URLs, is the directory traversal when you know one URL. This is someone I know, and have specifically shared one file with, being able to see ALL my other documents. Glad to
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by neil_s 11y ago
This is awesome! I was going to build something similar, just for the terminal, but extending it to code editors as well makes total sense. And what an all-star team!
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by neil_s 11y ago
I cannot crack the last 3 :( Any hints anyone?
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by neil_s 11y ago
Isn't this only accurate once every 15 minutes, or something as bad as that? Plus, it looks ghastly.
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by neil_s 11y ago
Upvoted for pointing me to The Conversation. Great find! Academic results presented in a readable fashion, but by the study authors rather than a Chinese Whispers of journalists ignorant of the topic.
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by neil_s 11y ago
Anyone know how this works?
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Ask HN: How do you share photos?
3 points by neil_s 11y ago|4 comments
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by neil_s 11y ago
The page really needs a video explaining the app, or a link to a demo. I don't want to sign up just to find out why it's worth investigating.
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by neil_s 11y ago
Any good Windows equivalents to this? (The OCR + Search functionality, most importantly)
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by neil_s 11y ago
I can't seem to scroll the homepage. Latest stable Chrome. Windows 10. Touch screen. Scrolling using mouse scrollwheel as well as trackpad gesture.
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by neil_s 11y ago
I've been meaning to make an online version of Calca.io / Soulver, which I love so much! If this is it, that'll be awesome. Currently, I can't really use it much because the examples won't load (they flash, and then
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by neil_s 11y ago
THIS. However, the criterion you're optimizing for is still unclear. Should it be: a) the total number of steps the elevator takes b) the average number of steps each user has to wait c) the maximum number of steps each user has to wai
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by neil_s 11y ago
My alternative to the post-it system: high-fives I teach a course introducing students to making plain webpages in HTML/CSS/JS. We haven't tried the group aspect yet, instead we have people pair program - one laptop between e
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by neil_s 11y ago
Can someone explain like I'm five, the trades the author made and how he turned it around to be so profitable? My understanding so far: In 2008, he made a promise to buy Mexican Maya oil in 2009, at the 2008 price of Maya. The Mexican
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Post-IPO non-profits(zoho.com)
2 points by neil_s 11y ago|0 comments
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by neil_s 11y ago
I needed something like this when I was starting out, and still occasionally do. Obviously once you've had a few dozen commits you get a hang of things, but initially, the visualisation can help a lot. For my co-founder who's just
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by neil_s 11y ago
TIL that the Windows Dev team have a forum for engaging with users about console features: https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt Back when I interned at MS in 2013, people were alarmed when I spoke t

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