DirtyAndy

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Uber mocks safety laws, and faces ban, says Government(nzherald.co.nz)
3 points by DirtyAndy 10y ago|0 comments
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by DirtyAndy 11y ago
Really nice idea. I think it applies equally the other way too, my wife is quite tricky to buy for and it is nice to have a concise list of ideas like you've presented. Two email lists I am on for ideas (that you could no doubt use to
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by DirtyAndy 11y ago
Cool idea and seems to work, but might be good if it was activated by pressing a button rather than just a visit to the page - I am now logged out of a number these services just because I visited the page - which is not really what I wante
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by DirtyAndy 11y ago
Another take on this sort of thing: http://app.dumpark.com/sunlight/ The guys behind this apparently wanted to know the best place to go for a beer at any time of the day. They use the zenith of the sun, the surroundin
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by DirtyAndy 11y ago
A bigger issue to me is what do you do with Lily after it has run out of battery. I don't think I want to carry it for the rest of the day on the ski fields, mountain biking, trail running or anything else, it is fairly cumbersome. And
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Your job is not to write code (medium.com)
6 points by DirtyAndy 12y ago|2 comments
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by DirtyAndy 12y ago
As a kid in the 1970's living in New Zealand most of our local apples (NZ grows a lot of apples) were green. Imported Red Delicious used to sit in the supermarket looking so red and beautiful and screaming to be purchased, which occasi
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by DirtyAndy 12y ago
I would assume because PostgreSQL (the DB he is using) doesn't support importing from JSON?
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Crashed 'plane' a Google wifi balloon(m.nzherald.co.nz)
3 points by DirtyAndy 12y ago|0 comments
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by DirtyAndy 12y ago
Add Excel spreadsheets and Access databases to that list. Best thing, someone else has already proven their is a need for the system and a working solution!
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by DirtyAndy 12y ago
Two ways I can think of. 1. You do a real job for a while. Work in a large organisation, see what pain points they have, which ones are probably similar to other businesses and which ones probably don't involve terabytes of proprietary
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by DirtyAndy 12y ago
I'm working on this exact issue with a delivery company currently. The biggest question they have is "would you pay for it?". Would you pay extra to receive a message to advise of delivery time, and would you pay extra to hav
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by DirtyAndy 12y ago
In New Zealand there have been 30 deaths since 2000 ( http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti... ), a country of 4 million where like the US most people have a driveway (as opposed to Europe
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by DirtyAndy 12y ago
A lot of cars with cameras don't seem to have rear object detection systems (that beep inside the car when something is behind you and you are in reverse). I doubt most people use a reversing camera to get out of there drive way, so th
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by DirtyAndy 13y ago
Depending where the OP is in the world, this sounds ripe for constructive dismissal, but I'd encourage you to really think about it before going down this route. It will create a massive amount of stress for very little reward, and rig
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by DirtyAndy 14y ago
You can be an entrepreneur at any point, you can only be a father to these young children once. Relax and enjoy your children, especially whilst they are very young. My kids are 6 & 8 and with school, sport, general tiredness that they
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by DirtyAndy 14y ago
I would say the developer has thought about their own requirements and knowledge, much like you have in your comment by thinking only of Europe whereas pretty much every other country/region in the world uses metric. Whilst creating an appl
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by DirtyAndy 15y ago
You are feeling screwed? Because it was disclosed you entered a competition? What were you going to do if you got in, wear a balaclava and talk through some sort of voice altering device to hide your true voice? And if you don't get in are
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by DirtyAndy 15y ago
Disclaimer: Most of my knowledge of the Wild West comes from the movies. In the WW they used to quite like public hangings, both legal and illegal. Why do you think they did this rather than just shoot people beside a grave and roll them in
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by DirtyAndy 16y ago
Whilst this article is about more than just pitching everyone, that is the first thing that hits you, and personally I disagree with that as an approach. If you are at college coming up with the idea of Facebook then maybe it works, but in
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by DirtyAndy 16y ago
That is certainly what I used to love about Techcrunch, and whilst I think it is natural that as they have gotten bigger they have gone more mainstream and do a lot more coverage of Twitter, iPads etc, it also a shame and certainly taken th
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by DirtyAndy 16y ago
This guy sounds very talented, except perhaps at finding a job. He describes lots of interesting things he can do, without really describing what benefits he can offer to a potential employer. Most of all he does not really describe what he
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by DirtyAndy 16y ago
I think a further thing that builds on your thing is the ability to be exposed to ideas that need solving. Big companies have lots of pain points, things that an unemployed grad or person who has only ever worked in 10 person companies is n
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by DirtyAndy 16y ago
For windows based web development: How would you create a web page that said "Hello World"? It the answer is not start notepad (I'll accept Notepad+), type in Hello World and save it as .htm or .html and put it on a webserver then for mos
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by DirtyAndy 16y ago
Two other things on unsubscribing. One as an spam detector I use a different variation on email address for every site I ever sign up to, so "reply to unsubscribe" sucks (I note that you said a link, which I like). I have been stupid enough
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by DirtyAndy 16y ago
If I had signed up, personally I would want an email when you go live (usable beta level). I don't want a confirmation, I don't want to know that you are 37.5% done, I don't want to know what your dog had for breakfast. When you send me an
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by DirtyAndy 16y ago
I've got a 4 year old and a 6 year old. All valid things you raise here, and they certainly still apply with mine at their current age. A positive though, that may not apply to everyone, but certainly applied to me: They make you grow up Su
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by DirtyAndy 16y ago
If your problem is simply about trust in terms of you pay the money and will they give you the domain, there are escrow services that handle this for you, and I sold a domain for $4K once via Paypal. It is not that difficult to safeguard yo
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by DirtyAndy 16y ago
Another issue with alternative ways of handling registration (and this is all a bit moot now, because I don't think anyone is ever going to change the laws and take all the parked domains back - except Libya) is how you would ever define th
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by DirtyAndy 16y ago
News breaks, you write an article and you go to this site and find a photo for your article and post article with photo. Or you post the article with a message (like BBC does too) saying "Are you there, send photos etc", go back update the

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