tower10

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by tower10 12y ago
I run Techspace London ( http://techspace.co ). We have coworking spaces for tech startups near the Old Street roundabout. Contact me through the website - we can probably accommodate you for a couple of days.
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by tower10 18y ago
I'll have a play around with swapping the vendor link / avatar ...thanks for all the ideas!
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by tower10 18y ago
I'm trying to keep the homepage as free of clutter as possible but I do think this would add a bit of personality to the site (as opposed to the sterile, crowdsourced feel that you mentioned before). I'll have a think about a creative way
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by tower10 18y ago
Thanks for the feedback - really helpful. I've been thinking about adding a poll feature (e.g. "Which of these dresses should I wear for a party tonight?"). Making that the main focus of the site is an interesting idea.
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by tower10 18y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I will have a careful think about anonymous submissions (obviously spam is a big issue). Anonymous voting is definitely on the cards.
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by tower10 18y ago
Clicky link: http://retailfans.com
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Ask HN (+girlfriends): Review my site - RetailFans.com
9 points by tower10 18y ago|13 comments
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by tower10 18y ago
IE7 doesn't allow bookmarklets to be dragged to the Links toolbar, presumably due to the security risk. Instead, right-click and Add to favorites...
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by tower10 18y ago
Most of the startups that are making money are the ones you've never heard of. This is a pointless exercise...however, here are some that I believe are making money that you may have heard of (happy to be corrected as I don't know for sure
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by tower10 18y ago
This is a gross generalisation. Plenty of startups are making money.
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by tower10 18y ago
Self-referential fail. No results for: kgb search engine Time will tell but how am I going to remember to take another look in six months time? :)
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by tower10 18y ago
The page doesn't reload when ony the fragment part is changed.
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by tower10 18y ago
I prototyped a Rails-like framework in JavaScript using Rhino and Servlets and was suprised how feasible the whole thing seemed for a production website. JavaScript is perfectly capable for this IMO. The benefits come when you start to re-
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by tower10 18y ago
No offence but I'm not even going to read a scientific news story on The Sun :)
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by tower10 18y ago
I bought mine new a while back (~$3000 AUD) from Apple. Just looking at eBay, they seem to go for a touch over $1000 USD at the moment. I figure they're a bit of a bargain at the moment since they're perfectly capable and have just been r
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by tower10 18y ago
Second hand (or refurbished), last gen 15" Macbook Pro. I use one of these for development, no complaints.
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by tower10 18y ago
How about redirecting the first URL to the second? Updating the fragment part via JavaScript shouldn't hit the server so that wouldn't be affected by the redirect. If you did get into a situation where it inadvertantly redirects then you
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by tower10 18y ago
I was more than happy to download the Silverlight plugin (I didn't have it installed). After an apparent successful install (latest OSX) and restarting Firefox, I'm told the plugin's not installed. I don't know how typical this is but per
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Ask HN: Using alternative keyboard layouts?
30 points by tower10 18y ago|71 comments
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by tower10 18y ago
Music? It's a reasonable indicator of lifestyle choice (so good chance of bringing compatible people together), not male dominated and it could be multiple niches (adding up to something on a much bigger scale).
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by tower10 18y ago
My first impression is that this doesn't do much that Firefox doesn't already do (ok, maybe Opera/Chrome style thumbnail quick start but I don't care too much for that anyway). There's no compelling reason for me to come back. Maybe if you
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by tower10 18y ago
Go to a different host. Here are my two recommendations: http://linode.com http://slicehost.com Both start at $20 a month. I am a customer of both.
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by tower10 18y ago
If your site's going down, it's probably already time. VPS's are pretty cheap. Alternatively, there may be some optimisations you can make to your code to reduce your concurrent MySQL connections. You can use tools like siege or Apache ab
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by tower10 18y ago
Is less choice a good thing?
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by tower10 18y ago
I second the UI needing some user feedback. I was expecting a Google Suggest style dropdown and it took me a few seconds to realise I was filtering the results already in the page. It didn't take me long to figure out the purpose of the si