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Don't download IE8

You can be sure that they will get more than 869566 downloads amongst 'legitimate' (if rather misguided) users. So they will reach the $1M ceiling easily enough.

Save your bandwidth. Reduce C02 emissions. Don't download it.

Don't give M$ the chance of singing about how quickly they've served so many downloads....

It's a crap browser anyway. And it didn't run on my Mac or my Ubuntu box.

Such a huge ego, and I see that Wolfram is still at Alpha. Shouldn't we at least wait for WolframBeta ? Maybe he will have been able to iron out these ego discrepancies by then. ;)

A good demonstration that excel needs some very-easy-to-use macro-ing capabilities. And perhaps a better business model for this stuff would be to wrap up this functionality as a $20 set of excel macros. There's a healthy market for excel macros - it should do well.

I do this kind of manipulation quite a lot, but use my lovely emacs to do it. snip snip - easy peasy. But I know it's not reasonable to expect regular excel users to use emacs.

The clock really is quite garish, but you have to see it in context really. It's going to be be sited on the wall of the old bank opposite Kings College Chapel - anything quiet and unassuming in such an austere location would be lost. Garish is good.

I was lucky enough to get a preview of the clock in operation about a month ago - guided by the clockmaker himself. Two things stand out in particular. First, the sound. The clock has a really satisfying mechanical whirr and clunk. A satisfaction that you just don't get by building software! Second, the LEDs. Bright blue LEDs mark out the hours, minutes, seconds. and they do so with sweeping movements across the clock face. These sweeping LEDs are exactly that - LEDs that sweep. It's not an array of LEDs that get turned on-and-off around the face, it's just some LEDs on a bar that is swung round mechanically.

Come and see it next time you're in Cambridge. It's mounted behind bullet-proof glass on the wall of the bank. There's even a special audio system so that you can hear the 'tick'!

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How ironic to read this question this evening. I'm 38. Right now I am finalising the documentation pack (16 documents in all!) to sell my second company. It's two-and-a-half years old. We sign the documents in 12 hours time. The company took no VC, but just a small amount of trade money. We're selling out to our largest customer because they made us an offer we couldn't refuse.

At 38 you are most certainly NOT too old to startup. At 38 your personal circumstances may mean that you cannot take the same level of risk that you could at 28 or 21. But if you are happy, healthy, and have a means of keeping a roof over your head and your dependents' head, then go for it.

The very very worst that could happen is that you could find yourself looking for a job in a few months time. But you'll be looking for that job with a bunch more experience, and credibility, than you would have without having tried to start something.

Best wishes to you. Enjoy it. And if your luck works out, you'll make a fortune. If your luck doesn't work out, you'll hold with you a great experience that you'll cherish forever.

Adding "site:news.ycombinator.com" to the search string in a google search works for me....

Other search engines are available.

Really nice idea. I've hacked countless snippets of perl to do this for me in the past, so would love an app that would relieve me of this task.

One suggestion -

I used http://www.junction.co.uk/HTMLTemplates/whats_on/music/dates...

but it kind of got the wrong idea about which bit of text was important.

How about extending the post-process ("Events I want / Events I don't want") page so that I can give some hints to the app about which bit of text represents the event name / date / time etc.

keep it up, guys.