petewailes

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20% of UK school leavers illiterate and innumerate. Help my partner change this
14 points by petewailes 16y ago|22 comments
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by petewailes 17y ago
Stealing isn't taking financial value from someone else, it's taking advantage of someone else's work without providing some form of recompense. When you pirate a film, you're saying to all the actors, director(s), all the people involved i
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by petewailes 17y ago
Regarding the quote you referenced, that's just a fact of business. What consumers pay for is the cost and profit margins of the company in question. What they receive in exchange is content. So you're saying that you honestly, in your hear
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by petewailes 17y ago
What people paid for was for the businesses to pay for their own costs and make enough of a profit to keep going. What people got in return was content. However, why they paid was because their was no good, free alternative. When people are
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by petewailes 17y ago
Partly it's because I've been around as a reader for a lot longer than I've been registered. But mostly because it's been bugging me for a while, and thought that even if stops one or two people, it would have been worth it.
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by petewailes 17y ago
Agreed. Much as I like the guy, I think that was Rand's fault, when he posted on the SEOmoz blog about liking the place.
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by petewailes 17y ago
Not really. In fairness, it's probably a bad day to have posted this. Don't get me wrong, I love reading that kind of stuff too. But I'd rather get it from the other sites, rather than on HN. I guess that's our point of contention, but that
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by petewailes 17y ago
Could you suggest a better method of tracking updates?
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by petewailes 17y ago
I attempted to be as non-bitchy as possible. Sorry if it came over that way.
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by petewailes 17y ago
Edited with a clarification
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by petewailes 17y ago
As I said above, "I'm not saying I'm an old-timer. But I've still noticed it, even in the two months that I've been around" It's not that I think it's becoming Reddit, it's that some people seem to think it should be. I'd rather they didn't
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by petewailes 17y ago
Oh sure, I'm not saying I'm an old-timer. But I've still noticed it, even in the two months that I've been around. I like the fact that this place isn't Reddit, and I'd like it to stay that way.
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by petewailes 17y ago
Can you make a web-based subscription version? I know people who'd never get an iPhone/iPad (no real need), but who'd love this.
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by petewailes 17y ago
I'd be totally up for contributing to this.
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by petewailes 17y ago
Doing statistical coolness now. Will post results later. Stay tuned...
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by petewailes 17y ago
Nah, it'll ICanHazAmazonReviews or something like that. Pictures of Amazon products with distinctly non-pithy reviews below them. All ad-supported with lots of user generated content. That's the future, donchakno
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by petewailes 17y ago
Make it obvious you can type place names. People are stupid. They'll expect a dropdown, not typing.
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by petewailes 17y ago
Because there's more than enough customers in the world to everyone else wealthy too?
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by petewailes 17y ago
Build a business using it. Pithy version: 1. Look for a niche that hang around online, but don't know much about web stuff. Mumsy things, crafts... anything that's a tightly knit niche 2. Find their forums/blogs etc, and ask them what would
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by petewailes 17y ago
Well... I'd say that it'd help if the information was reliable, backed by evidence, up to date, referenced experts within the field and actually factually correct. Like http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors