danw

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by danw 13y ago
You're an asshole! Oh, you're offended? IT WAS TONGUE IN CHEEK
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by danw 13y ago
I think bitcoins just count as assets
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by danw 13y ago
Nope.
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Young single white male with an iPhone? Our product is for you (taskrabbitsinlove.tumblr.com)
3 points by danw 14y ago|0 comments
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by danw 14y ago
You are running an event. Running events is hard. You do not have money to cover upfront costs. Seek sponsorship to cover upfront costs. Sponsor is possibly concerned over conference diversity. Solutions: 1) Address sponsors concerns 2) See
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by danw 14y ago
This is all I could find. The @britruby account has deleted some of their tweets too. http://www.exquisitetweets.com/collection/iamdanw/1898
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by danw 14y ago
Looking at the "trolls" I can't see any trolling. I see people criticising the conference for fair reasons that they care about, and trying to be helpful after initial snarky tweets. This is not trolling. And I absolutely agree with their c
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by danw 14y ago
What were the original tweets that caused so much trouble? I've tried to gather what I can but I don't see much 'trolling', just criticism, some polite and constructive, some less. And there's a few tweets by @britruby that have been delete
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by danw 14y ago
This. In your 20s and earning more than £20k? Well done. Now shut up and ship.
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by danw 14y ago
Specifically for Science Hackday there's http://www.sciencehackday.com/ . In general http://lanyrd.com/ is the closest I've found, but it's still not comprehensive.
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by danw 14y ago
This checklist seems very centred on the UK hackday format (which I very much enjoy). I've noticed US hackdays have a somewhat different culture, with different expectations, as do gamejams, etc
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by danw 14y ago
DHCP pool being exhausted or NAT table getting full are the two main problems I've seen at hackdays
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InstaQueue: Photos from iPhone 4S lines (Made in an evening, what do you think?)(instaqueue.herokuapp.com)
2 points by danw 15y ago|0 comments
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by danw 15y ago
Does that include putting hideous adverts across the slides in 'HTML5'? (I miss the early scribd & slideshare, before they started trying to make money to survive by plastering the place with adverts)
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Conference Nonsense(andybudd.com)
1 points by danw 15y ago|0 comments
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by danw 15y ago
"Why doesn't Yahoo take a few million dollars in seed money and start a bunch of companies under its own umbrella using some of its own people?" They did, it was called Yahoo Brickhouse. Yahoo closed it in 2008[1]. I'd love to know more a
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The Gender Ratio of SXSW Speakers & Submissions(emmapersky.com)
35 points by danw 15y ago|5 comments
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by danw 15y ago
The cloud will solve it
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Ladies and Gentleman, this is the BBC (technogoggles.com)
2 points by danw 15y ago|0 comments
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DisplayCabinet - our 24 hour Internet of Things hack. What do you think?(iamdanw.com)
13 points by danw 15y ago|2 comments
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by danw 15y ago
The title appears to be a play on the BBC's popular A History of the World in 100 Objects: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/ . Also the bias highlights the flaw in the underlying data which is the English version of wikipedia
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by danw 16y ago
Would love to learn more about that
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by danw 16y ago
"The infamous party scene is already well addressed by an abundance of other startups." - Is there a list of these apps?
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by danw 16y ago
I noticed Leeds Hack solve this by the judges going around all the teams in the morning and having a friendly chat about the hacks being made. Gives them a chance to better understand the hacks as hackers aren't always good presenters and t
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by danw 16y ago
Can't say I've had this problem at any of the UK hackdays I frequently attend, only the US ones I've been to. I think one of the differences is having an overnight. The networkers and loiterers bugger off after a few hours leaving just the
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by danw 16y ago
I could draw the stick people in SVG
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by danw 16y ago
Some folks seem to have dns problems with it, no idea why
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by danw 16y ago
Thanks for the heads up, I've fixed the all.css 404. The raphael code could do with cleaning up too
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by danw 16y ago
I wouldn't expect much difference. Weekends tend to be busiest as most folks work weekdays for example
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by danw 16y ago
Wednesdays used to be quietest for cinemas in the UK but now it's one of the busiest thanks to the Orange 241 offer that's been running the past few years

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