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dan_the_welder

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I own and run a fabricating shop and a coffee shop. I have been selling the bikes I fabricate over the net since 97 and selling coffee in real life since 04. I do CAD/CAM and machine design. Some C coding after a 20 year hiatus. I am liking Ruby.

Bikes http://www.organicengines.com

Coffee http://www.allsaintscafe.com

  1. TechCrunch curates Youtube HomePage (youtube.com)
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  2. The Open Directory Project (dmoz.org)
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  3. Ask HN: What exactly is going on? Hacked site.

    I followed a link to what I thought was landolakes.com and was rapidly redirected to a pharmaceuticals site. How strange I thought, and checked the link which appeared to be legitimate. Then I Googled drugs…

    4 points 5
  4. National Research and Education Network for All: Insurmountable Opportunity (gutenberg.org)
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  5. Ask HN:Pop-ups, previews, help bubbles, etc.

    Quite simply all this popup stuff drives me insane. I am just trying to read or highlight for searching and boom, magically a popup appears. Often it will not even have a close button on it and wants to hang around…

    3 points 2
  6. Microsoft disconnects modded Xboxs (news.bbc.co.uk)
    17 points 19
  7. Intel in threats and bribery suit (news.bbc.co.uk)
    1 points 0
  8. Ask HN: Portrait vs. Landscape monitor setup.

    I have been doing some web design and one of things that irks me is poor use of screen real estate especially on my wide screen monitor. After about a week I found myself looking at the standard aspect ratio monitor at…

    5 points 8
  9. Tell HN: Go to Google with IE, it offers Chrome DL, but not from Firefox

    If you go to the Google home page it offers an icon and a Chrome download direct link if you are using Internet Explorer but not if you are running Firefox. I tried it on two different machines. Interesting.

    11 points 21
  10. Tatjana van Vark. Cryptographer, machinist, hacker (tatjavanvark.nl)
    12 points 5
  11. Chinese teenager allegedly beaten to death at Internet addiction treatment camp. (news.bbc.co.uk)
    1 points 0
  12. Law Enforcement needs a UI designer (knowgangs.com)
    1 points 2
  13. Where do lost megabits go? Broadband speeds. (news.bbc.co.uk)
    1 points 0
  14. High speed rural broadband hope using wireless phone relays (news.bbc.co.uk)
    1 points 1
  15. National Electric Drag Racing Association. (nedra.com)
    1 points 0
  16. The Secret Ingredient in Silicon Chips comes from North Carolina (news.bbc.co.uk)
    18 points 3
  17. Digital Rosetta Stone hopes to keep information for 1000 years (news.bbc.co.uk)
    3 points 1
  18. Disaster monitoring satellites ready to fly (news.bbc.co.uk)
    1 points 0
  19. One tonne 'Baby' marks its 60th birthday (news.bbc.co.uk)
    3 points 2
  20. Disney Japan to sell movies in tiny memory cards (reuters.com)
    1 points 0
  21. Plastic Logic to use AT&T network for new e-reader (reuters.com)
    6 points 9
  22. Toilet back in service on crowded space station (reuters.com)
    1 points 0
  23. Web pages that suck (webpagesthatsuck.com)
    1 points 0
  24. Ask HN: Any advice on Joomla?

    I have a small project in the napkin stage and it seems like I could do it on Joomla with ease. Scalability is not an issue. Has anyone got any practical experience with it?

    4 points 6
  25. This is a next generation laser ranging/image sensor (signal.co.jp)
    1 points 1