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pcarmichael

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About pcarmichael

Philip Carmichael

Retired. Founded PCPartPicker.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48945616

    https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status "Operational issue - AWS Billing Console (Global) Service - AWS Billing Console Severity Impacted - Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data"

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    Comment #45886292

    Ok that should be in - if you view the price trend pages now there are different currency grouping options (with EUR being one of them). Hope this helps!

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    Comment #45814637

    I can add Spain price trends to PCPartPicker. Quick question though - do you want the price trends to cover just Spanish retailers, or should it trend the prices across all of the …

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    Comment #45813334

    They are US-specific, yes. Thanks for asking that - I'll look into updating those graphs to show for the appropriate region/country depending on what country you've selected (on th…

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    Comment #26068276

    Lots of VPNs route through hosting providers. Some hosting providers are more prevalent with spammers than others. But in the end you can only really use it as a scoring measure. I…

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    Comment #24060305

    The names changed out from under us. It’s hard because some people expect to see 3.0, while others expect to see 3.1gen1. Whichever one we pick we end up confusing the other side. …

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    Comment #23114713

    There somewhat is - many retailers offer data feeds. The formats and quality vary widely though. Google shopping has a feed format that many retailers implement.

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    Comment #20772750

    Absolutely loved that book and the sequel. He has another book out now titled _Energy: A Human History_.

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    Comment #19906281

    Mine was replaced under warranty last week (after waiting several months) - 2017 Model S, AP 2.0.

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    Comment #19524559

    > Instead, they maintained altitude and speed, using their advantage in a dive to execute "slashing" attacks. Fun trivia that I read a while back: After getting hold of a zero, the…

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    Comment #17078860

    Back around 2001 I took my desktop build (Celerin 300A oveeclocked to 450MHz), installed a giant passive heat sink on the CPU and PSU, put in an 8MB IDE flash drive, and network bo…

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    Comment #16712731

    Aye. We've got some things in the works to improve that.

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    Comment #13160230

    I did the same for new account registrations on my site. The humorous side effect was actually LinkedIn. That whole thing where you can auto invite everyone on your contact list...…

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    Comment #13109460

    Glad you like it! We make money through affiliate deals with the retailers we list.

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    Comment #13107598

    I posted an Ask HN to review my side project PCPartPicker about six years ago. Got great feedback and things grew from there. I went full-time, had to hire employees, etc. Not big …

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    Comment #12034268

    Amazon smile actually still generates affiliate revenue. (Amazon doesn't take the charity cut out of the affiliate side.)

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    Comment #12033573

    Our revenue is primarily through affiliate deals with retailers that we partner with. (We don't run any ads.)

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    Comment #12033569

    We don't run any ads.

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    Comment #12032785

    Thanks! Glad you liked it!

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    Comment #12032728

    A bit over five years ago I posted an 'Ask HN' ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883123 ) for my side project PCPartPicker ( http://pcpartpicker.com ). I received great advic…

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    Comment #11601998

    They weld a metal shoe over each landing leg.

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    Comment #11361314

    It's in the section (n) just before that, regarding not storing API content longer than 24 hours.

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    Comment #10873866

    That got me intrigued too. Found a bit more info on it in the comments of a reddit post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/3xtu76/comet_lander_...

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    Comment #10806718

    Fourth one since Christmas. Two were on Christmas - that was fun.