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by pbowyer 12y ago
Can you share some pictures of your setup, and how it works? From your description, I think the aluminium foil is propped inside your windows, and absorbs energy from the sun. This then warms the room via convection. What I don't get i
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by pbowyer 12y ago
I'm surprised by how low their profit margin is - at least on these $10 plans.
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by pbowyer 12y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Longing-Know-Esther-Lightcap-Meek/dp/1... Longing To Know - Esther Lightcap Meek For years I've been stuck with questions like "What does it mean to know?", "What is truth
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Building Markets posts the most honest CEO job ad ever(buildingmarkets.org)
1 points by pbowyer 12y ago|0 comments
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by pbowyer 12y ago
> But this is bad, really bad idea. This is bad code, it doesn't describe what you want to achieve, it's difficult to track and analyze, it's hard to tell when it stops. You really should want recursion here. Thanks for th
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Ask HN: Which programming languages allow pass-by-reference in foreach loops?
2 points by pbowyer 12y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Speech to Text that keeps audio?
2 points by pbowyer 12y ago|1 comments
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by pbowyer 12y ago
"Visual Studio Community 2013 is free for any non-enterprise application development." What's left out to make it non-enterprise development? Or to put it another way - how are they restricting its usage & preserving sale
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by pbowyer 12y ago
Thanks, that's a very amusing talk!
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Introducing the Official Symfony Best Practices(symfony.com)
20 points by pbowyer 12y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Which languages use method.object() order?
2 points by pbowyer 12y ago|2 comments
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Introduction to machine learning with pandas and scikit-learn(github.com)
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by pbowyer 12y ago
I'm building a wooden computer case. I realised this summer how much I miss having something tactile to show for my labour. As a youngster I enjoyed working with wood but in the last 15 years I've given up everything to write web
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by pbowyer 12y ago
I preferred your original headline, and voted based on the article, not your new one :-)
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by pbowyer 12y ago
In terms of ideas, how to scrape Javascript-heavy sites. This one has broken me and the Import.io helpdesk: http://www.usrentacar.co.uk/ . I'm now trying in CasperJS/PhantomJS but no joy there either. I'm look
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by pbowyer 12y ago
Can anyone in the HN crowd shed light on the Intel 'S' suffixed chips? They're designed to a smaller thermal envelope, but I cannot find any description of how this works. Do they draw as much power as a non-suffixed chip unt
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by pbowyer 12y ago
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde. One of my favourite books ever!
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by pbowyer 12y ago
Have you seen http://gridstylesheets.org/ , which works as a polyfill and puts the Cassowary Constraint Solver behind CSS? It doesn't solve all CSS issues, but it's better than what I'm using today [1]. [1] Th
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The 2nd edition of Double Your Freelancing Rate is out!(doubleyourfreelancingrate.com)
1 points by pbowyer 12y ago|0 comments
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by pbowyer 12y ago
If you're in the UK and want to sell...
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The Death of the Web Design Agency?(alistapart.com)
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by pbowyer 13y ago
Ian Cooper says it better than I can: http://vimeo.com/68375232 If you've not seen that before, it's seriously good. My top video of 2013
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Ask HN: Easy software to host a static website on Amazon S3?
3 points by pbowyer 13y ago|2 comments
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by pbowyer 13y ago
These talks have changed the way I think in the last year: "The Shift: UX Designers as Business Consultants" Davide Casali-Interaction14 http://vimeo.com/86495316 Fred George - Programmer Anarchy http:/&#x2F
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by pbowyer 13y ago
Don't forget the divitis of responsive web design - one of my utter bugbears. Should people jump ahead of technology so much, or wait for Flexbox support to catch up and then do it? I know what I think...
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by pbowyer 13y ago
Cross-posting my comment from his blog: Since the app ecosystem is generally closed, why aren't apps available as Shareware, with 30/45/60 day trials, or with no-questions-asked refunds within 48 hours of buying? What you sai
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by pbowyer 13y ago
> We want to resist getting into a CMS feature race - the focus for Wagtail is providing a thoughtful and attractive user interface, and making it as easy as possible for designers to build beautiful sites. Yes, please keep that focus. A
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Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2014 edition
18 points by pbowyer 13y ago|2 comments
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by pbowyer 13y ago
Whoever gets their hands on this data should build a "20 Questions" game, to identify a person's NHS number. Knowing something of my neighbour's recent medical history, I'm pretty sure it'd take 10 questions or
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by pbowyer 13y ago
I went to a conference last year on people skills for digital workers which had some great talks. If you're interested in this sphere, they're definitely worth checking out as the videos are available online for free. http:/

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