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Firehose – Realtime mentions API from Ahrefs(firehose.com)
2 points by samdb 6mo ago|0 comments
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Rust Nation – A UK Conference for Rustaceans(rustnationuk.com)
60 points by samdb 4y ago|14 comments
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by samdb 5y ago
I've never understood why people pay so much money to live in studio flats in crap areas of a city. We live out in Kent and including a drive to the train station and buying the ticket can be in central London in 40 minutes. That gets
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by samdb 6y ago
People have been volunteering their time and they are still raising £200,000 to get the table completed.
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by samdb 6y ago
Looks very promising. There was some doubt about interferons as they can also help COVID to get into the body but some new research from the University of Southampton has cleared up that there are two kinds of the ACE2 receptor.
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Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’(vice.com)
518 points by samdb 6y ago|440 comments
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by samdb 6y ago
I had only heard of Enchroma but then stumbled across and bought some Pilestone glasses last month. I think they cost me around £120 here in the UK. At first I put them on and they just made everything look tinged with pink so removed them
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Applied AI Conference: testing for bias, databricks, tensorflow and Go, and more(appliedai.co.uk)
3 points by samdb 8y ago|0 comments
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Golang UK Conference Schedule Announced(golanguk.com)
1 points by samdb 9y ago|0 comments
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by samdb 10y ago
In the UK we have Yodel, which is essentially 'contracted amateurs' delivering in their own vehicles.
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Golang UK Conference call for papers(golanguk.com)
1 points by samdb 11y ago|0 comments
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by samdb 11y ago
There must be some form of this still in practice in the UK, though maybe it doesn't do it while in motion. I frequently have to get into a particular set of carriages on my journey home from central London, as the train divides en rou
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by samdb 11y ago
I can hire good local people an hour outside of London for that price.
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by samdb 11y ago
Was strangely fun answering these. Can't wait to chart some of this data on http://chartblocks.com
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by samdb 11y ago
We wouldn't want to miss out on a great speaker because they couldn't afford to get to and stay in London.
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Places to post your startup – with (some) metrics(chartblocks.com)
1 points by samdb 12y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: ChartBlocks – Chart building app with an API(chartblocks.com)
7 points by samdb 12y ago|0 comments
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by samdb 12y ago
We just started making one of these for internal use - will probably use this instead now.
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by samdb 12y ago
We built a site for a Russian supermarket and tried using Yandex maps as that's what they wanted. Was accurate for Russian addresses, as you would expect, but ended up switching for Mapbox so we could heavily customise it.
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by samdb 12y ago
From 'fourteen nights' - two weeks
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by samdb 12y ago
'To' is the most common version in British English.
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by samdb 12y ago
Another Lewis book, The Big Short, is also a good introduction to the events leading up to the 2008 crash.
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by samdb 12y ago
Google Charts is hosted, like https://app.chartblocks.com - you can download or save the charts that get produced but it's not a charting library that can be used offline. If you want hosted charts you've also got to g
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Frame: Superimpose App Screenshots Instantly(frame.lab25.co.uk)
3 points by samdb 12y ago|0 comments
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by samdb 12y ago
Someone in our office insists on calling closing a window 'crossing it off'.
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by samdb 12y ago
We tried NVD3 when we built http://www.chartblocks.com as it would have saved us loads of time. It wasn't great though and had almost no flexibility.
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by samdb 12y ago
Thanks, needs some improvement according to our metrics - a lot of people don't manage to make a chart, which is pretty fundamental - but it's getting better every day.
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by samdb 12y ago
Though I'd give it a go but Facebook login on iOS fails for me.
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by samdb 12y ago
Creator here - would love feedback about what kinds of features would make this a useful tool for you.
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Show HN: ChartBlocks – Create and share charts in a few clicks(app.chartblocks.com)
3 points by samdb 12y ago|1 comments

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