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by thenbrent 16y ago
"I find myself searching and reading 2/3 of the time instead of coding" That's a fair statement. I do spend a lot of time searching and reading WP documentation. I feel overal I'm still saving a huge amount of time and gettng a much more ro
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by thenbrent 16y ago
Freckle: http://letsfreckle.com/tour/ Amy Hoy is a maestro.
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by thenbrent 16y ago
Agree and you may not realise that you actually do need these features until you don't have them.
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by thenbrent 16y ago
I often ask myself when building sites: "Wouldn't this be easier with static HTML pages?". The answer is only ever yes if those static pages are all the site will ever be, which is rarely the case. Your site will probably grow in size and s
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Google wants Groggle to cease trading and hand over its domain(zdnet.com.au)
4 points by thenbrent 16y ago|0 comments
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by thenbrent 17y ago
Sounds like the perfect opportunity for Automattic to introduce a BuddyPress.com using the Wordpress.com model.
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by thenbrent 17y ago
Hear hear. A Q&A site is not a piece of legistlation; it's an entreneurial endeavour. It's best to leave entrepreneurs to be free to create, experiment and adapt. Stackexhange will miss out on some great sites by rejecting them before t
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Who will predict the winner of Eurovision?(kaggle.com)
1 points by thenbrent 17y ago|0 comments
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by thenbrent 17y ago
My favourite quote: "If somebody in 1999 had said 'Build me a massive data storage system that would be available to a hundred million users around the world, would be capable of terabytes of data 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and robust t
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by thenbrent 17y ago
Original link is now broken, story is here: http://www.popsci.com.au/2010/03/imagining-an-apple-tablet-i...
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by thenbrent 17y ago
So the JooJoo situation is this: - it directly competes with a much anticipated product made by one the most successful hardware manufacturers in the world; - it's released at the same time as the hype machine is in top gear for the above m
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by thenbrent 17y ago
Google has been considering going nuclear since at least 2006: "Should Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear power (no, really)" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606# Granted, other than the title they've chosen
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by thenbrent 17y ago
Whoops, submitted before reading guidelines. I should have cropped the starting number and gratuitous adjective. Sorry HN!
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by thenbrent 17y ago
Yeah I agree with there being no clear winner. I don't know of any area in Australia that has a sufficiently large cluster of startups to create a thriving startup culture. That's why I'm curious about niko1 coming to Brisbane to start a st
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by thenbrent 17y ago
Why did you move to Brisbane to start a startup? Are your potential customer's here? At the risk of starting a heated discussion, my impression is that Melbourne is the capital with the most blossoming startup culture. (I'm in Bris by the w
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by thenbrent 17y ago
I'd be keen for that too. There are some groups on meetup.com already, like http://www.meetup.com/upstarta-brisbane-qld/
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Use makeup to hide your face from detection systems using the Viola-Jones method(ahprojects.com)
51 points by thenbrent 17y ago|13 comments
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by thenbrent 17y ago
There are available alternatives and I wouldn't think backups provide any social status, so I don't think higher prices would mean higher demand. But maybe... that's why I'd love to see the results (even just as an anonymised chart of price
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by thenbrent 17y ago
Will you publish the results? I'd love to see them!
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by thenbrent 17y ago
+1 this would be great. Perhaps you could use mechanical turk to choose suitable tasks for the app. Unless you have the desire to create the wicked algorithm required.
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10 Weird Psychology Studies(spring.org.uk)
4 points by thenbrent 17y ago|1 comments
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by thenbrent 17y ago
If it's that easy, it won't be long before we have pics of the first lolcat in space.