DarrenStuart

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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
sorry had to correct this. I was replying to this I'm struggling to give some examples. I don't know if either of lastminute.com's founders were coders. so google and MS are perfectly valid answers. Anyway laters folks.
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
how about you just delete my account Paul. I am done posing and joining in here so no lose to anyone.
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
so I get down modded for giving examples.... I know its not cool to moan about down modding but at least people could give a reason.
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
google, Microsoft etc :p
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
I think news.yc needs a search. Heres some we added 3 days ago :p http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=135185
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
Steven Levy is great, I would add his Crypto book as well.
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
I like the look of some of these products that MS are working on but there is noway I am going to touch them until they become offical 1.1 releases.
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
is there any video of the presentations? on paper some of these seem like hacker projects not startups so I would love to see how they see value in these startups.
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
I dunno they seem to be buying a lot of stuff recently so they must have some cash. Don't forget its time warner as well isn't it?
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AOL acquires Bebo for 850 million(centernetworks.com)
54 points by DarrenStuart 19y ago|17 comments
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
yeah I wasn't sure. I think its kinda a forum more of a hybrid. I would love some for forum like features if I was honest. Split the questions, news and cool links and I think it would be more forum like.
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
yeah I have to agree I often think they are over looked.
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
excellent read, I agree with pretty much all of it. my tip for not being side tracked is... make your home page on your development machine blank. Being a webdeveloper I found everytime I open my browser with igoogle I would get sidetracked
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Ask YC: How many forums do you use?
6 points by DarrenStuart 19y ago|9 comments
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
yeah I agree I have never seen any spam on here so they must be doing a good job. Plus whos going to vote for spam?
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
designing the obvious - a common sense approach to web application design by Robert Hoekman Jr The New New Thing Masters of Doom (story of id software, great story) Smart Start-ups: How Entrepreneurs and Corporations Can Profit by Starting
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
lol, no sense of humour I guess
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
shouldn't this list be on or linked on the submit page?
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
oh well at least scoble didn't get a whiteboard out to explain how it works :p
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
Its an untyped, interpreted and does not have any heritage with the likes of C or even basic. I guess it's heritage is smalltalk which I did enjoy when I studied. Don't get me wrong it has its place but I think of it as a language that is l
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
> At least part of it is that in many cases it's not their chosen toolset; it's what they were given. read my post I already said that. > How so? You can figure this out yourself by comparing C# to ruby
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=132451 or http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2008/03/human-data-as-...
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
yeah I got it fairly quickly because I am using the other services.
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
being a .net contractor myself I have to agree and then disagree. The most day coders I have come across are in the .net field but as I work in this field I don't know if this is true. I suspect java has its fair share of day coders. Howeve
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
wtf?
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
I am in agreement. This sounds like an idea that was not thought out.
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Human Data as a Playfield: The Passively Multiplayer Online Game(terranova.blogs.com)
2 points by DarrenStuart 19y ago|0 comments
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7 startup savings tips(centernetworks.com)
4 points by DarrenStuart 19y ago|3 comments
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
Thanks yeah I tried the first release but it would not work on my fresh install of vs08 and .net 3.5 I'll give it a go again.
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by DarrenStuart 19y ago
.net vs05(vs08 seems like it needs a service pack) on windows php coda/code igniter on mas osx(using mamp)

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