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Yeah top right nav links look horrible for me in Win7/Chrome, as do the testimonials at the bottom.
Re:Urban Airship raises $15.1 million on Monday November 07, 2011 @05:13AM (#3205704)
Me too. When oil prices go crazy in the next 10 years or so I'm convinced there's a good market for these somewhere.
Awesome domain. Worked well for me on my home wifi.
I guess it's a good thing he's been wrong about the equalisation of the sexes - both men and women may not commute today.
Re:Why I will never pursue cheating again on Sunday July 17, 2011 @06:21PM (#2774366)
I have taught (as a PhD student) similar material and this is no surprise to me. But then, is it realistic to expect undergrads to turn out a thoughtful piece on LTE and 4G comms? If it is a technical comparison, sure, but even if you don't plagiarise your sources what are you really doing? You're going to read some articles on the internet, form an opinion, and rewrite that stuff in your own words. So long as they are learning, what's the difference?
Re:GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam on Monday July 11, 2011 @11:10AM (#2751004)
I don't really see the problem here. GoDaddy products can be had very cheaply, they are so cheap with coupon codes the probably potentially make very little per sale.

All insurance companies work the same way, try hard to get a new customer, milk them dry on the tail end because they are too lazy to search out a better deal.

Re:Google is quietly testing Google+ for Domains on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @06:48AM (#2733303)
This is good news. For geeks with their own domain for email the free apps accounts are great. The downside is that they are usually slow to rollout new services. Looking forward to trying G+
Re:Ask HN: Is PHP dead for startups? Could PHP revive? on Monday June 27, 2011 @12:07PM (#2701803)
If you waste time re-inventing the wheel (eg. HTML forms auth) for your webapp you are just allowing someone else in your space to get competitive advantage.

These are solved problems (by frameworks) and decent developers should be spending time on better things.

Re:Rate my startup: CarSpy on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @06:38AM (#2632633)
Thanks for the comments. I was aware of most of the issues posted; its what I hoped was a minimum viable product.

The results links open with a js popup - would a regular link be better? just my concern is you'd navigate away from the search results if you left-clicked.

As for the .co - I can't afford a nice short .com right now, just need some funding to buy the .com!

Re:Rate my startup: CarSpy on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @07:14PM (#2631346)
Looking for some feedback on my project of the last six months or so. Basically its used car metasearch, based in the UK.
Re:Rate my startup: www.askforadeal.com on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @11:42AM (#2536853)
"Over Half off huh? Why not! Anythings possible."

Should be Anything's.

Like the idea but strikes me it will be hard for a lot of companies to give custom deals without rewriting their backend. And even if you do give custom deals - how do you align the deal asker's twitter account to their account on your site (assuming not everyone has super zeitgeisty social logins)?

Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, http://UpOut.com on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @11:52AM (#2485761)
Nice domain.

I don't instantly get that it is user-powered, although that is clear on the /about page.

Perhaps consider using social sign-in rather than standard account creation.

As some of the commenters on lifehacker point out, taking some kind of moral stance on GoDaddy over the elephants is going to leave you short on time and products in your life. Are you now going to research everything you buy and make sure you are on board with the CEO's personal agenda?

I agree GD hosting is horrible but and shouldn't be used for anything but buying domains. With the flotilla of discount codes available you can almost always get your renewals/new domains very cheap at GD.