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by notauser 17y ago
Bing might actually be heading towards a major slice of the search engine market. Right now everyone's browser defaults to Google search. Partly this is because most people still have Win XP and when they got those the default (Windows live
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by notauser 17y ago
In London Starbucks is usually the best choice unless you know which local places are good. A lot (in fact I would say the majority) of the mom-and-pop places in the center are just as expensive and serve much worse coffee. From a recent re
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by notauser 17y ago
I'm actually use it to find addresses in text, for validation I usually use in the Django built in which is very liberal. Incidentally this does correctly pick up UK e-mail addresses (tested with .co.uk .org.uk and .net.uk).
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by notauser 17y ago
While I generally agree with your point the way you present it smacks a little bit of http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694 (At the very least if you have been to an airport in the last 5 years you will have seen an Accenture ad on a
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by notauser 17y ago
How significant is a 45 minute delay to news that Tiger Woods was in a car crash? Unless it's 30 minutes to the start of a tournament and betting hasn't closed yet the delay is insignificant.
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by notauser 17y ago
Thanks, fixed the formatting. (It's not my regex - I lifted it from someone who had the time to write a comprehensive test suite.)
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by notauser 17y ago
Great stuff, my URL matching regex was very limited. For e-mails I use: /\b[-a-z0-9~!$%^&*_=+}{\'?]+(\.[-a-z0-9~!$%^&*_=+}{\'?]+)*@([a-z0-9]([-a-z0-9_]?[a-z0-9])*(\.[-a-z0-9_]+)*\.(aero|arpa|biz|com|coop|edu|gov|info|int|mil|mus
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by notauser 17y ago
Thanks to everyone, some very good comments. I'm doing a revision before posting it :-)
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by notauser 17y ago
Thanks for picking that up, rewritten to hopefully be easier to parse.
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by notauser 17y ago
Thanks! Good idea. I have heard both of those things before and it put me off pretty badly. WRT partnerships... They often take forever to sign up, even longer to integrate, and frequently don't produce any results because one partner backs
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by notauser 17y ago
Finding engineers/programmers seems to be a real problem for potential entrepreneurs. I thought I might try and write up some of my experiences - I plan to post this to a whole bunch of the London start up lists where the worst offenders ha
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Help request: How to find programmers for a startup(theplanis.com)
39 points by notauser 17y ago|18 comments
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by notauser 17y ago
Huh, interesting. The code supplied is: try { return true; } finally { return false; } Which returns false. I guess this is because of the guarantee that the finally block will be run, no matter what. The JS interpreter must be catching the
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by notauser 17y ago
Amazon affiliate revenues go up to 9%. I'm sure you could negotiate something similar with other providers. Possibly you could offer people an guided Internet shopping experience in the mall - people come in and, with the help of an 'Intern
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by notauser 17y ago
As a quick hack you can link directly to an intention by clicking on it and then copying the URL. (This is fixable and should be no problem however).
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by notauser 17y ago
Project start - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=954556
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by notauser 17y ago
Fix released and tested, it should now retain your activity when you create an account :-)
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by notauser 17y ago
Please don't look too closely at the code, there are some things in there that need a bit of refactoring :-)
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by notauser 17y ago
I'm good enough at SQL to know about normal forms and how to write recursive queries. I also know that there is very little value in me writing a new set of CRUD queries for a low-load site when someone else has written a well-debugged inte
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by notauser 17y ago
We are building on top of Django, and currently have most of a prototype up and running. ...back to coding...
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by notauser 17y ago
She does appear to be part of a start up team - http://bundl.it/About Not hawking your own product in every blog post you write is a good thing, not a bad thing. (No judgments here on 'super popular' or even 'awesome developer' as I don't
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by notauser 17y ago
A lot of hackers go through the experience of being in a minority(1), the only difference is that it's not illegal to pick on the geeky kids hanging out in the labs. The constant attempts in this community to segregate it into small groups
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by notauser 17y ago
They could have protected it by offering a royalty free license for a specific use. I'm no fan of IP law but too often companies hide behind the law when the actual root cause is themselves.
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What do I try first?(theplanis.com)
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by notauser 17y ago
Mootools is very nice, not least because of the quality of their documentation. In my experience it's cross browser support is great too.
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by notauser 17y ago
Based on empirical data (walking through my local park each morning) if I ever put a profile on a dating site the best picture to use would be one of my puppy.
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by notauser 17y ago
If only we weren't going to have to live with IE6 until 2020. Then we might be able to use more of the new stuff. (Apologies for bitterness, I spent a lot of today back porting a Very Large Web App to IE6.)
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by notauser 17y ago
In the UK there are two key factors: - Consumers pick the cards. - Retailers are (in general) barred from charging different prices for cash vs card payments. Therefore it makes sense for any customer to pick a card with a high reward/cash
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by notauser 17y ago
Given that IPv6 is a good thing(1) any technology change that brings forward the time line for IPv4 address exhaustion is a good thing. It is human nature that people don't do things that sound like hard work until they have to, and the con
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by notauser 17y ago
At the cost of making the process much more painful for legitimate customers, while recovering only a very small number of lost hardware sales. (And that's before you consider that people will just find a way to lift the OS image off an ins

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