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Re:Ndb – An improved debugging experience for Node.js on Thursday July 26, 2018 @01:43AM (#17615299)
I have the same issue. I transpile code from ./src to ./dist

In NDB I am on sources tab and I see dist folder highlighted (src also appears in the tree).

How does one "map the workspace under sources" (I tried right clicking - and I don't see a menu)

TIA

Re:Stopwatch with only CSS3 - No javascript on Monday May 21, 2012 @05:20AM (#4001998)
Is this the gist for it on GitHub?

Perhaps somebody could deploy to their host?

https://gist.github.com/2224365

Re:Getting around the London 2012 branding police on Monday April 16, 2012 @09:49AM (#3847315)
You enshrine it as a by-law of the games.

Startup Business Sanity Checklist

http://www.matthewslight.com/2012/03/26/startup-business-sanity-check-list/

Some people have asked me to sanity check their startup business for them. I found myself applying the same set of questions. I’m sure others must do the same. I looked for a comprehensive list online but couldn’t find one – so I created my own as below.Feedback – additions and comments would be most appreciated.Which questions do you ask?

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Re:Show HN: SWYM - Share what you make on Saturday February 11, 2012 @09:38AM (#3579307)
I like the concept - but what's the big picture?
Re:Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe on Friday February 03, 2012 @09:06AM (#3547094)
We are planning london.hackful.com etc. Watch this space.
Re:Subsets of Design: Logic behind Voodoo on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @02:55AM (#3264595)
Can you do one on using social media and the modern world of engagement? ;)

M

Re:Show HN: Guided Recipe Creation on Monday November 21, 2011 @01:38PM (#3262222)
There's a related but different recipe tool in the UK:

http://www.foodily.com/

If you wanted to take a scientific approach you'd need to be able to do something like the following: (A) measure your actual work output and (B) some way of measuring your 'maximum expected output capacity'.

if A much less than B you are being lazy. if A is close to or equal to B then you are burnt out.

[The short answer of course is, if you are reading Hacker News you are being lazy]

As an aside; Pivotal Tracker - the feature / dev tracking software manages to define output using average number of work blocks completed over the past X weeks. How you measure your maximum expected output capacity might be more tricky to define.

Re:Show HN: My weekend project, MealMogul.com on Monday November 21, 2011 @03:31AM (#3260442)
Tom, I'm working on a project similar to GrubWithUs (blog.eatsocial.net). We are a team of 3 and just started working every weekend on this about a month ago.

How many of you are working on this?

Re:Show HN: My weekend project, MealMogul.com on Monday November 21, 2011 @03:24AM (#3260434)
Advertising this could be one of your biggest costs. Reduce the requirement for advertising by devising a traction plan, if you haven't already. You already have the right idea by targeting a small area first and then expanding.

There is a similar site to yours already launched in London, fairly well established called HouseBites.co.uk - have you studied their model? Mike from HouseBites gave a talk at YCombinator London about 1 or 2 months ago. Did you see this talk? There is a video floating around somewhere.

Some of the logistical issues were discussed which may give you some assistance on for Meal Mogul.

I am also working on a different yet related project EatSocial.net (see blog.EatSocial.net) - think meetups in restaurants. Would you be interested to meet for a chat? I am based in London and would like to hear more about Meal Mogul.

Re:Show HN: My weekend project, MealMogul.com on Monday November 21, 2011 @03:10AM (#3260408)
Another similar site in the UK is HouseBites.co.uk.

They are revenue making at the moment (note sure on profitability).

I am workimg on a similar project st the moment EatSocial.net where the focus is on eating out rather than eating in. Think meetups in restaurants.

Early blog posts about it here: http://blog.eatsocial.net

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I think it's been typed in Word!
Trying to pull the wool over anybody's eyes; employers, customers, investors etc is only ever a stupid idea longterm.
I looked at a number of cites to base my new company and chose London for it's mix of diversity, access to talent and strong business culture.

For a tech heavy startup SF was the only other serious competitor.

I must disclaim I am English.

Re:RIP Steve Jobs. RIP Apple. on Thursday October 06, 2011 @11:27AM (#3080421)
Lets face it Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs when it comes to presenting. How do you explain Apple's dip between 1986 to 1996 which coincided with Steve absence?
Re:YCLDN 29.09.11 Summary on Friday September 30, 2011 @06:22AM (#3056411)

  * Scribbled entrance notices being thrashed out five minutes before first talker due to speak
  * Orderly British queue forming for mammoth order of pizza and beer (red stripe went down well)
  * Pre talk banter on why anybody still using PHP needs to exorcise the demon, install RVM and start using Ruby with HAML, SASS and Coffeescript.
  * @kzhu from Mint Digital when asked “What’s your market size? Surely only everybody has one fridge”, replying “everybody”
  * @giniji for hacking together SWYM.me, a buggy startup the day before and knowing that his search strings were chopping off the first characters. Uby on Rails.
  * @Harjeet for encouraging all hackers to apply well for YC and take the pilgrimage to Mountain View
  * Many a wannabe CEO on the prowl for the elusive CTO
  * Something special is happening in the East End of London right now. Where it will take us. Who knows.
Re:Urban Airship: Postgres to NoSQL and back on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @09:37AM (#3047762)
I can summarise this presentation as:

  * Postgre 8.3 on AWS not good enough
  -> lets try Mongo
  * Mongo performance not good enough
  -> lets try and fix this
  * Oh shit we don't know what we're doing lets go back to Postgre
  * There's a new version 9.0 this might sort us out
  * No sadly Postgres 9.0 is no better
  * Oh wait maybe Amazon performance is to blame
  * Lets try it on real hardware
  * Oh yes that's better
Re:YC NYC, September 26 on Monday August 15, 2011 @06:40PM (#2889007)
I can't understand why YC isn't involved more with London
Re:Shifting media, Newspapers fading? on Saturday July 30, 2011 @08:59PM (#2827265)
Blogging has been declining for some time now, especially since the rise in Twitter. No conicidence I am sure.

Newspapers are fading fast. Anybody following the News of the World Scancal in the UK will tell you their thoughts.

The question is, will newspapers they die?

the score is also dependant on time
This seems a bad idea to me. I wonder why they don't have tighter controls on which usernames can be chosen. I notice that you can not use 'www' or 'blog' for obvious reasons, but usernames like ftp and mail don't seem to have been screened. I suspect that in time they will have to have some form on control on this.
Re:Ask HN: How do Tumblr & Posterous make money? on Saturday June 18, 2011 @08:39PM (#2669888)
until adwords, what was the Google business model?
Re:Google Already had a Like Button (and other redundancy) on Saturday June 18, 2011 @08:18PM (#2669869)
Yes, it was called PageRank.

surely google's real "plus one" is it's page rank. a mechanism which is far more sophisticated and less prone to fickle bias.

why do we need an additional method to say "i like this website". the backlinks and google's original algorithm back in 1996 was supposed to be this innovation.

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