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grah4

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About grah4

I'm Graham Garland, a web developer/designer.

email: hello@grahamgarland.com

about: http://grahamgarland.com/

work: http://travelled.com/

location: australia

old hn: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=grah

Recent public activity

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    Comment #3388206

    I also agree. I've been with them for 10+ years and only had 2 or 3 issues which were solved in a few hours. Great support and an excellent company.

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    Comment #3263844

    I remember a similar styled ad notification about a year ago for the cr-48 test in chrome & chromium dev channels.

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    Comment #3227185

    "If you're going through hell, keep going." First of all, congrats on getting this far. As you know, your consulting biz is a straight services play and will only grow in relation …

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    Comment #3220511

    Some tnooz coverage[1] hit my inbox which answered my question. I love the idea of room concierge and hope you guys can increase the granted request rate. Best of luck. [1] http://…

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    Comment #3219700

    Great work! Could you talk more about your room concierge service? Are you automating the request procedure or does the room concierge team contact the hotels? I'm curious what the…

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    Comment #3219604

    It is run by thinkmap.com and doesn't look like a for-profit project. Here is the launch press release: http://www.thinkmap.com/pressrelease.jsp?id=1290

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    Comment #3054222

    fwiw, that design pattern is called lazy registration.

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    Comment #3051741

    I am not a gamedev but I am currently building what some would consider to be a large game[1]. It has been amazing to work in as it streamlines the development process massively. I…

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    Comment #2983565

    Not at all. The issues described in the linked post have arisen _because_ the community has grown so much and so fast over the past few years.

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    Comment #2973927

    I think the pricing page is giving you a high ctr % because it's really the only option for a visitor to understand the product. Perhaps you should work on your template and includ…

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    Comment #2973752

    I would use the email signup % on that page as the indicator for validity. Over 5%? Do it.

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    Comment #2973278

    C. We were in the same situation and settled for mispelledword.net while we were in dev - until we stumbled onto an auction for the word.com and picked it up for ~$2k. We were incr…

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    Comment #2941168

    The cobbler's children have no shoes.

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    Comment #2859185

    sorry, i've hardcoded biz apis and can't release it without lots of sanitization. the rescuetime aspect of it is really simple though! they have a decent api and nice js embeddable…

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    Comment #2858648

    rescuetime. I put together a simple chrome extension which hijacks the newtab page and shows a biz dashboard + personal rescuetime stats/graphs. nothing gets you back to work harde…

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    Comment #2850329

    task.io expires later this month. maybe send an email to the current owner or backorder it?

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    Comment #2850289

    Not a myth. It happened a few years ago to me for several (totally random) domains. Since then I've also changed to checking from the CLI.

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    Comment #2839645

    Seminars about long-term thinking: http://longnow.org/seminars/ An incredible series of talks & discussions. The scope of topics covered is akin to TEDtalks. I recommend downloadin…

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    Comment #2783992

    alibaba.com and globalsources.com As others have stated, choose a product and own that niche. There are alot of scammers and quality will vary significantly until you find a suppli…

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    Comment #2721762

    the noob guide to online marketing: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-noob-guide-to-online-marketin... you will find it helpful.

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    Comment #2721756

    pen + paper

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    Comment #2695715

    Congrats! You have some really nice apps. Perhaps you should try charging more?