damien7579

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by damien7579 7y ago
CloudCARDS | Senior Software Engineer | ONSITE or REMOTE | Full-time | Limerick or Dublin, Ireland CloudCARDS.ie is an aviation startup founded in 2013 that is disrupting the asset management and aircraft leasing software side of aviation.
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Quora: How did one small decision change your entire life?(quora.com)
1 points by damien7579 14y ago|0 comments
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by damien7579 16y ago
Yeah probably. Seems it was mostly BASIC + asm for that age range. Rock on GWBasic! It's probably where you learnt to use your first GOTO like a billion times :)
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by damien7579 16y ago
Yes, I voted for BASIC too but ASM was what I first messed around in on an Amstrad 512k using the manual that it came with. Remember when manuals had pin outs of all the ports and sometimes circuit digrams and included a reference manual of
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by damien7579 16y ago
Me too. then I discovered you could call interrupts in quickbasic and you could inject hand rolled ASM and execute it so upgraded to 4.5 and never looked back. rapid prototyping in DOS :)
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by damien7579 16y ago
A good point and they're making things simpler in the process - here's the product, it's $35 and this is what it does - no more messages, reminders about a pro version and removal of timebombs. Plus future versions will probably get even mo
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by damien7579 16y ago
Snap... then moved to QuickBasic..ooooooooowwww. Remember the bundles source for gorillas,money and nibbles?
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by damien7579 16y ago
Where's Assembler in the list :) I loved me some MASM. Did no one learn this in the late 80's early 90's? It must still be used a lot for embedded systems ... What I liked about it was a) it was hard and made you really really think about w
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by damien7579 16y ago
You can look at http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDeveloper... from some useful tips from the wisdom of Joel Spolsky
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by damien7579 16y ago
+1 for redmine. Had it installed on Windows 2003 server and used its superb built in migration tools to go from mantisbt. Used it for about 18months and its actively maintained. Great for multiple projects and provides a simple UI. Its inte
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by damien7579 16y ago
Two good Microsoft technology ones (ASP.NET/MVC/C# etc) http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/ http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ Yahoo user interface blog: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/ Jeff Atwood's blog (lot of various things): http://www.cod
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by damien7579 16y ago
Interesting concept and sounds like a good way to start as a newbie angel investor.
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by damien7579 16y ago
I like it :) drop me a message offline (see my profile) perhaps we can share our research?
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by damien7579 16y ago
Good summary of my waffle ;) I suppose the stats of startups making it out of the 5th year is appalling. Less than 10% as I recall which may be similar to US but every extra hurdle in the way doesn't help either! Plus US markets are general
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by damien7579 16y ago
Thanks for the link to angellist - something I aspire to join but as I said in my post, you have to be approved to get listed and one of the requirements is you're not a newbie - you must have connections to other angels - in fact you must
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by damien7579 16y ago
Good question: Yes I was in a UK startup. I feel that the risk adverse nature/attitude we came across significantly impedes innovation in the UK (remember this is in my experience and this was around 2001-2005). I believe we had to work har
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by damien7579 16y ago
Thanks for the links - I came across those during my research and they all seem to links angels to entrepreneurs/companies looking for investment. I am more interesting in seed/startup/angle funds that pick the companies to invest in during
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Ask HN: best way to (indirectly) invest in a startup via angel/seed fund?
23 points by damien7579 16y ago|19 comments
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by damien7579 16y ago
In the EU? try Cyprus...
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by damien7579 16y ago
Agreed. Long morning showers have a profound effect on my ability to concentrate, meditate, think through problems and interestingly nearly 100% of my best ideas and solutions to problems come from the shower. Sometimes I have more than one