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by ottbot 11y ago
Funding Circle, San Francisco We're (seriously) building a better financial world! Our marketplace approach gives small businesses a fast, simple, and fair way to get the capital they need to continue to grow. We've lent over $1B
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by ottbot 12y ago
You know that's still pretty shitty right?
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by ottbot 12y ago
Have fun.
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by ottbot 12y ago
The phrase "pick your battles" come to mind here, I mean, scream with rage?
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by ottbot 13y ago
I guess it is because controls are only setup for touch input.
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Read Then Burn(readthenburn.com)
2 points by ottbot 13y ago|1 comments
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by ottbot 13y ago
I got an order in for the black 32GB version. No email confirmation yet though..
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by ottbot 13y ago
It could be more readable if you use a placeholder variable family, _ = socket.peeraddr Which is more clear to me, but maybe not as much as just using .first
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by ottbot 13y ago
Take a look at what http://gocardless.com are doing with Direct Debit in the UK. Not sure what "mobile payment" really means, outside of in-app purchases?
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by ottbot 13y ago
I'm employed as a software engineer, but I have a mechanical engineering degree.. What should I call myself?
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by ottbot 13y ago
Could you share some of these reasons? High rent, high salaries I'm sure, but I'd be interested to know what other reasons have.
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by ottbot 13y ago
Have you seen https://www.quantopian.com/ ? Might be a good place to start.
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by ottbot 14y ago
ottbot thanks!
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by ottbot 14y ago
Another nice job management tool is disown, which lets you log out of your session without killing the job (similar to starting the command with nohup)
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by ottbot 14y ago
Perhaps we've driven beyond the metaphor.
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by ottbot 14y ago
I'm looking at building my company's CMS workflow with Jekyll so it's good to near this. I'll have non developers creating and maintaining pages and posts, so I'm hoping I can build an easy workflow with just Jekyll and a bit of prose.io. I
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UK Government to lend through P2P lending startups Funding Circle and Zopa(techcrunch.com)
3 points by ottbot 14y ago|0 comments
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by ottbot 14y ago
You may not be aware such a thing exists, but I'd consider http://www.freesat.co.uk or or even http://www.freeview.co.uk to be (subscription) free alternatives to cable TV.
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Mustache templates in C(tia.mat.br)
3 points by ottbot 14y ago|0 comments
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by ottbot 14y ago
Indeed, Imperial College London is similar in this respect.
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by ottbot 14y ago
Ah, I probably could have been more clear. I was expecting (hoping) for more information. It doesn't seem to have anything wrong, but it would be great if it was possible to get a more detailed version number, like 8.0.6001.18702.
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by ottbot 14y ago
Here you go: https://aboutmybrowser.com/890034160 Windows XP on Virtuabox
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by ottbot 14y ago
It's unfortunate that when using IE, both this and supportdetails.com only give versions as specific as "Windows XP" and "IE 8", whereas I get more detailed version info using Chrome on OS X. I'm trying to track down an IE issue and would l
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PostgreSQL vs MySQL: an apples to oranges comparison(ledgersmbdev.blogspot.co.uk)
148 points by ottbot 14y ago|67 comments
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Facebook buys AOL patents from Microsoft for $550 million(latimes.com)
1 points by ottbot 14y ago|0 comments
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TypeRex, the OCaml Programming Studio(typerex.org)
5 points by ottbot 15y ago|0 comments
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by ottbot 15y ago
To participate in HN, you basically want to be sure to point out any logical fallacies, missing citations, and any possible reference to Godwin's Law, the Streisand effect, or the Dunning–Kruger effect.
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by ottbot 15y ago
On a mac, the a quake like drop down terminal (or as a prefer, non animated full screen) can be had with TotalTerminal, previously called Visor, but now without SIMBL, or iTerm2. I find absolutely indispensable!
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by ottbot 15y ago
Providing a reference for your joke doesn't really change much. I don't think you were downvoted because anyone thought your comment need citations, or because they weren't sure if it was actually supposed to be a joke. Perhaps it was just
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by ottbot 15y ago
Great stuff, looking forward to meeting some Twilio folks at the Silicon Milkroundabout this Sunday.

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