apexauk

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by apexauk 3y ago
the value is the community - it's a bunch of low-ego high-motivation folk all building and sharing their own journeys. if you already have a large relevant community around you or don't value connecting with peers so much then it
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by apexauk 13y ago
Soon! Want to drop me an email? ay@stripe.com
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by apexauk 13y ago
(I work at Stripe, based in the UK.) Our pricing in EU countries where we've launched (UK + Ireland) starts at 2.4% + 20p (we've revised pricing for each country when we launch out of beta). We regularly give volume pricing well b
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by apexauk 13y ago
(I work at Stripe, here in London) Great write-up - I hadn't seen that graphic before but it's great - full credit to the original source http://startingandsustaining.com/ . As a Stripe-r, I can't complain abo
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by apexauk 14y ago
http://oneleap.to/ - social enterprise spin on the idea, you pay to charity to get your message through.
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Startup Mentoring Sessions - How to get the most out of it(klinger.io)
33 points by apexauk 14y ago|7 comments
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by apexauk 15y ago
This made me laugh as I remembered my initial hourly quota for dial-up internet access :) But yes, similar story for me - programming my ZX spectrum to make my own games was where I started out.
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by apexauk 15y ago
Yes, really. That's an interesting link, thanks. But to be honest, I don't find the stat surprising. I spent a term studying CS at Surrey in 2004 - I couldn't immediately find the 2004 rankings but it ranked 8th for CS in 2008: http://www.
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by apexauk 15y ago
This is an issue I'm very passionate about, and I'm sure many others are too. I'd love to hear other's thoughts on how we educate the next generation and the best way to teach coding in 2012.
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We should teach all our kids to code(kernelmag.com)
118 points by apexauk 15y ago|73 comments
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Selective Tweets - nearly 1M users with zero marketing - now open source(insomanic.me.uk)
3 points by apexauk 15y ago|0 comments
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by apexauk 16y ago
We're working on improving this - in particular reply-all listserv in the pipeline ;) -- Andy @ GroupSpaces
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by apexauk 16y ago
Thanks, we saw Tender - but they don't have a way of disabling the other parts of the system (forum etc) apparently.
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by apexauk 16y ago
Look handy - thanks! I'll check these out.
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Ask HN: Help/FAQs/documentation system, like Google's help?
9 points by apexauk 16y ago|9 comments
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by apexauk 16y ago
well, for the penny or so that it cost us to display our GroupSpaces ads to you, we've received coverage in a blog post that's hit Hacker News. so I guess I'm not feeling too unhappy with that. ;) Sure it would be nice for some users if FB
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by apexauk 17y ago
When I first read it quickly I thought it sounded a fair complaint, then I saw this comment and figured I should think again. On 2nd read I picked up the subtleties re: undocumented behaviour, reason behind the change & effect reverting
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by apexauk 17y ago
yes, but how much would have been paid for the right to broadcast 100 times on a radio station with 10,000 listeners? it's easy to see artists don't get the same returns from radio as CD sales. spotify and the like are a new medium again -
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by apexauk 17y ago
Say Apple hosted an online "poll" asking "Are our laptops the best? Yes/No/Probably" with a "see results so far" link. Would that be "publicity"? Or would it land them in the poo legally?
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by apexauk 17y ago
P.s. I don't mean this to be focused on religion. The interesting question to me is "is it legit to host an online poll backed by a significant ad campaign and present fake results?" If it helps, try imagining that this is a poll by some o
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The Alpha Course "Does God exist?" online poll is fixed
1 points by apexauk 17y ago|6 comments
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by apexauk 17y ago
did anyone else get the irony of "flipping is good" as the title to an post full of alternative f-words..?
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Design by Contract - for efficient coding(insomanic.me.uk)
1 points by apexauk 17y ago|0 comments
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Ask YC: best (multi-user) startup email support/helpdesk system?
31 points by apexauk 18y ago|19 comments
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by apexauk 18y ago
I think the biggest way this is escalating is the telling "download google's new browser" link that tellingly found it's way onto the (famously traditionally sparse) google homepage. For many non-tech-savvy people, Google is the internet.
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by apexauk 18y ago
"Scribd has seen the number of searches double (the number of uploads increased by 70% as well"
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by apexauk 18y ago
aye.. might be worth going with the notion that chances of different sites existing at www.domain and http://domain (in particular those different sites being used as the identities of two different people) is probably 0.00somethingverysm
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by apexauk 18y ago
Cool. Possible to do anything to solve the www-vs-no-www (essentially duplicate content) issues? (entered my websites then immediately wondered if I should enter them with/without the www as I may sometimes leave that out when commenting..
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by apexauk 18y ago
agree about failing loudly when bad stuff happens - but exceptions are best reserved for truly exceptional circumstances. in webdev everything arrives from the browser as a string so implicit casting is more of the norm. if your user enters
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by apexauk 18y ago
in PHP "foo" == 0 due to how php handles type juggling - the string is converted to an integer before the comparison, with strings that don't contain numbers converted to 0. so "foo" == 0 and "0" == 0 but "1" != 0.

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