samgranger's comments

samgranger | 14 years ago | on: Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe

What I love about HN is that the users here are international - not just USA, or just EU. What's the benefit of having an EU only version?

samgranger | 14 years ago | on: Why am I never using PrestaShop again, ever

What alternatives would you consider? Big Magento fan here but it takes some hair pulling to understand how to write extensions in the beginning - relatively high learning curve.. It is a bit of an overkill however.

samgranger | 14 years ago | on: Hashify: what becomes possible when one is able to store documents in URLs?

Obviously you could also have a database with all content URL strings that you publish - but that makes this technology worth nothing at all.

samgranger | 14 years ago | on: Hashify: what becomes possible when one is able to store documents in URLs?

Link shortening service?! Twitter automatically shortens it for you :)

samgranger | 14 years ago | on: Hashify: what becomes possible when one is able to store documents in URLs?

Cool to see but stupid idea, who in their right mind would use this for production?! By using such a "technology", you lose SEO strength due to urls-not-being-like-this.html and even worse, what can stop me from publishing a fake press release on there site/spamming porn and getting that URL indexed? And what are the benefits? To also bring SOPA into this, couldn't I share copyrighted material on someone's site like this? How could they control that?! Besides blocking each URL manually. Just seems dumb. As a concept, cool, but for production.... Yikes?!

samgranger | 14 years ago | on: Awesome freebie, because "Coming Soon" pages usually suck..

8 downloads so far and no comments :)

samgranger | 14 years ago | on: Life Below 600px

What happened to me - You lost me at "Pretty crazy, huh?". I scrolled down a bit more, but didn't read or pay attention. Pretty crazy, huh ;)

samgranger | 14 years ago | on: Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21

I find it very saddening that so many people here are speculating that Ilya committed suicide. It's disrespectful to speculate, especially in such a case. Get a life.

samgranger | 14 years ago | on: Philips wins $10M L Prize for LED-based 60W replacement bulb

What brand did you buy, out of interest?

samgranger | 14 years ago | on: Philips wins $10M L Prize for LED-based 60W replacement bulb

They're the only company to even submit an entry :)

samgranger | 15 years ago | on: Banks offer cash transfers via cell number, e-mail address

DOn't ask me why but I can see this going horribly wrong!

samgranger | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Review my Startup - http://Cardnap.com

I remember you showing this to me last year I believe when it was still being designed, nice to see it live!

samgranger | 15 years ago | on: Fuel - A simple and flexible PHP Web Framework

The examples are really similar to Kohana, especially view factory. Did you use pieces from it? And is this a MVC or HMVC framework?

samgranger | 15 years ago | on: Plutonium is Forever

All nuclear plants should switch to Thorium to be honest. Much safer and there's so much available, it's crazy. Shame that it didn't get researched that much since it's not so good for making nukes.