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Re:Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @08:20AM (#8629811)
As an FYI, the fine was scrapped (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30111525) following an intervention by Trading Standards.
Re:Elsevier journals – some facts on Thursday April 24, 2014 @02:02PM (#7641813)
Oxford and Cambridge are not private.
Re:Hacker News is down, so we made five issues free on Monday February 18, 2013 @09:07AM (#5238300)
This happened last time there was a big HN-Monthly giveaway ...
Re:Jekyll CMS on Amazon S3 and MaxCDN on Friday February 01, 2013 @03:05AM (#5149775)
Um, you can use Markdown, and in the context of Github pages (http://pages.github.com/), that is exactly what you're talking about ...
Re:Nginx Requests/Second – RaspberryPi vs Amazon EC2 on Saturday January 19, 2013 @07:20AM (#5083204)
Google Cache link - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... currently main content not working for me.
Re:Dear Apple: I give up, WireframeApp will become open source on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @02:38AM (#5065841)
For 60k/yr paying a fee of even 1000 to get a DUNS number seems negligible ...
Re:Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow" released on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @09:58AM (#5060375)
Spherical Cow? Well that's a new one!
Re:Show HN: My first RoR project. Domain appraisal engine on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @09:56AM (#5060362)
I assume it is a CC-Licensed image?
Re:Show HN: My first RoR project. Domain appraisal engine on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @09:55AM (#5060355)
Same here, still looks to be down ...
Re:The problem with open source on Sunday January 06, 2013 @02:23PM (#5017365)
Heh, awkward. - Hadn't seen your site's ?recent? makeover, looks nice! Also, his page suggests he's a 'Developer at Github'?
Re:Selling a website for charity on Sunday December 09, 2012 @04:23AM (#4894305)
OOI, if they don't get a CMS/similar included, how do they update their pages in the future without technical know-how?
Re:The Django Book on Monday November 26, 2012 @06:00AM (#4831485)
[1] is great - thanks a lot!
I don't think the accounts were 'taken', I thought he just had some of their data ...
Re:Vim as you IDE on Sunday August 12, 2012 @11:58AM (#4372782)
Well said.
To my knowledge bitcoin farmers found the hash rates of the Tesla based ec2 instances far slower than consumer grade high performance graphics cards
Re:Ask HN: Learn Subversion or Git? on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @02:37PM (#4318942)
Git. Don't bother with subversion.
'U.S. companies in China' ... doesn't look like it.
Re:Amazon Career Choice Program on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @02:18PM (#4287122)
$2k won't buy anything like 95% of tuition in the US will it?
Re:Just pay me. on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @02:00PM (#4287021)
I'd go further than disagreeing with his scheme, there is a reasonable chance it is illegal to charge such an extortionate interest rate, and may constitute usury...
Um that clearly isn't true. Temporary contracts may be less secure, but employees have considerable protections in the UK.
Re:Build muscle memory with your favorite editor on Monday July 16, 2012 @10:56AM (#4250956)
Brilliant piece of work - nice one!
Re:The Whisky Rule on Friday June 29, 2012 @03:34AM (#4175648)
Though it's generally thought that Whisky doesn't age in the bottle, rather the cask. (Though there are plenty who disagree/are unsure!)
Re:Beautiful Tools on Sunday June 10, 2012 @07:33AM (#4090789)
Have you considered using vundle? That removes some of the submodule requirements. https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
I can only assume so.
The floating stuff on the backdrop of the website is very distracting!
Re:Static Sites on Heroku on Sunday June 03, 2012 @02:47PM (#4061483)
The only issue with S3 I've found is the lack of naked domain support, so you need another service for redirects to your *.domain.tld.

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