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Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?

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Post by stevage »

aerovistae wrote: post #77
emmelaich wrote: post #68

https://dannyreviews.com/ (ramblings of a pathologically eclectic generalist) has a vast range of book reviews for the intellectually curious. All reviews by Danny Yee

Something about the phrase "ramblings of a pathologically eclectic generalist" smacks of egotism to me, I dunno why but it just seems a turn-off. It feels like saying "I'm just deeply interesting, I can't help it, it's just who I am."

I hear it the opposite. Like an admission that they failed to focus on anything in particular and than their reviews may be pretty useless for that reason.

Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?

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Post by musha68k »

cookiengineer wrote: post #177

The coolest website I'm using is a very practical one. https://geizhals.de is a German search website that allows you to very narrowly specify all kinds of things. Searching for a mainboard with minimum 4x SATA ports and 64GB RAM support in mini ITX format? Easy peasy. For example, take a look at the laptop category and its filters: https://geizhals.de/?cat=nb I wish every e-commerce website was built like this.

AFAIR it’s also an example of a well managed perl code base.

Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?

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Post by pottertheotter »

neilpanchal wrote: post #190
redanddead wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I like about it is that it's a no-BS e-commerce store, get in and get out. I've seen people shopping for hardware on reddit say that the navigation is clunky and confusing, and IIRC they said the products are price-gouged? I'd be curious to know what other users here with an eye for design think of it, and if they know of similar websites, as I've been working on a hardware e-commerce store (mainly for my own us…

As a ME, I used to manage a lab in a large corporation. McMasterCarr is ingrained in the US engineering culture. Every lab has a 5 inch thick yellow catalog. Also Thorlabs. Everytime I'd open their shipment, it'd include Lab Snacks™. I wrote about it here [1]. Both are awesome companies to deal with. [1] https://neil.computer/notes/thorlabs-lab-snacks/

I’ve always wanted one of their printed catalogs. I’ve heard you’ve “made it” when they put you on the free catalog list.
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