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by tcarnell 15y ago
...so really what I am saying is that I can not think of a reason to ask for address, city, security questions, usernames etc at registration time.
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by tcarnell 15y ago
From my experience of building web applications only two pieces of information are EVER required at registration time: 1). Email address - unlikely to be forgotten and is useful, ie you can then contact the user 2). Password - so the user c
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by tcarnell 15y ago
seems to have happened across other google sites too: http://www.google.com/trends?q=google.co.uk%2C+google.es%2C+...
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Google Trends shows sudden decline for Google.com(google.com)
7 points by tcarnell 15y ago|3 comments
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by tcarnell 15y ago
...what is a search engine if not a recommender of content?
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by tcarnell 15y ago
I would have said that Microsoft Excel does a pretty good job at making programming easy for non-programmers - spreadsheets are also one of the first ever computer desktop applications. However, I do believe that the Drupals and Joomlas of
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by tcarnell 15y ago
Essential reading: http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html :-)
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by tcarnell 15y ago
There is a difference between a bad 'idea' and a bad implementation of an idea. Early search engines were pretty bad (Lycos, Altavista etc) - why? because the idea was bad, or the implementation was bad? I would say that if all dating sites
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by tcarnell 15y ago
- ETA, Spain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ETA_attacks
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by tcarnell 16y ago
Nice! Great idea for a site - actually, I kinda had a similar idea when I registered "algolution.com" - the idea being to have a library of algorithms AND people can add implementations in different languages and of course vote up which are
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by tcarnell 16y ago
Great post! I started using Ubuntu Unity on my netbook, however, I had first installed Ubuntu Desktop and added Unity later so I can switch between them at loging time. I think that Unity is great! Really encapsulates the spirit of a netboo
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by tcarnell 16y ago
well if you sampled the 6 billion people in the world, yes, rich people drink alcohol. I think its a bit like saying 'rich people drive Ferraris' - yes, of course! having a lot of disposable income will obviously lead to the ability to purc
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by tcarnell 16y ago
good point - of course I absolutely believe humans (as well as every other living thing on Earth) as still evolving. And of course evolution happens all the time, with every generation evolution must be happening. And I've written genetic a
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by tcarnell 16y ago
Just to clarify, 'evolution' is the process of change that takes many, many millions of years - time frames of 15,000 years are not evolution. As Ricky Gervais once desribed, in evolutionary terms, modern man is still equviliant to a shaved
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by tcarnell 16y ago
If we take 'happiness' to be the fitness function of human evolution and a driver for adaption then I think it highly unlikey humans would ever change to become less happy. Infact, I might suggest that human happiness (amount of) is likely
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by tcarnell 16y ago
Regarding design, I would add Donald Norman's The Design of Everyday things - entertaining and you wont look at the world the same way again!
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by tcarnell 16y ago
Nice - could also have a Tartan scanner (to identify Scottish clans) or a tree trunk scanner to age a tree, or a wood grain scanner to identify different types of wood...
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by tcarnell 16y ago
Yeah, I remember my mum telling me years ago about Nestle and their various practises in Africa - outrageous. One of the least ethical companies I've ever heard of. But lots of big companies have questionable ethical practices (Shell, Apple
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by tcarnell 16y ago
...and where's BP? :-)
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by tcarnell 16y ago
Interesting to Nestle there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott#The_baby_mi... (thanks for posting)
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by tcarnell 16y ago
Thanks! Yeah, Mono looks like a great solution - it's wining so far!
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by tcarnell 16y ago
That sounds like a great idea - I use the desktop Yammer app, which is an AIR application, but it doesn't seem very stable or have a rich UI - would this approach have other limitations like being 'sandboxed' (not being able to read/write f
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by tcarnell 16y ago
Can I use scripting languages like Ruby or Python? Is this a good idea?
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Ask HN: Which language should I use to build a Desktop app these days?
2 points by tcarnell 16y ago|8 comments
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by tcarnell 16y ago
Thanks for the extra-reading, I will definately take a look at those. However, I will add that the whole 'pubsubhubbub' thing is very unfriendly (including the silly name) for the people that would be it's most valuable users, ie the people
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by tcarnell 16y ago
Thanks for the question! I think that PubSubHubbub is mainly for integration with feeds (RSS, ATOM etc) - correct me if I'm wrong! So the PubSubHubbub is somewhat restricted. So I would say the difference between PubSubHubbub and LiveDirect
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by tcarnell 16y ago
I built LiveDirectory.org as a first attempt at providing a real and practical way for anybody to publish and manage their own content so that application developers can easily build real-time, event-driven web applications. LiveDirectory a
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Enabling the real-time web with LiveDirectory.org (an early release)(livedirectory.org)
8 points by tcarnell 16y ago|6 comments
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by tcarnell 16y ago
Nice project! You might cQuery useful for more complex content extraction: http://cquery.com/
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by tcarnell 16y ago
Maybe I'm the skeptic here, but what if that phone call never took place? What an awesome way to promote your new and recently approved iPad application... Simply claim that Steve Jobs personally phoned you up... Any press that comes out of

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