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by stevefarnworth 15y ago
Yes, the story may be written in a slightly sensationalistic way to go along with current sentiment, but that's how most news, from all verticals and from most news sources from TV, newspaper and radio all the way to one person blogs, is pr
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by stevefarnworth 15y ago
Being such an influential product for the "tech scene" (I've never really seen its benefit over visiting only a couple of blogs, they all cross-link anyway, but I digress), surely there'd be lines of highly talented young designers queuing
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Twitter is like a cup of tea(randomlyaccessed.com)
1 points by stevefarnworth 16y ago|0 comments
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
But surely there'd be less of an incentive to move to the US if you're already successful? Surely the main reason to go to the States is to start and grow, not live there for already established business-people. I don't doubt that the US is
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
For me, it's not only the fact they're just dismissing the community which got them to where they are today, but that the statement just felt wrong . It's contradictory - they want UI/UX consistency, but are encouraging non-core-client div
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
I'm sorry? Oil isn't used to make electricity Oil is used in some types of power station, and the markets are already reacting to not only the increased demand, but due to the infrastructure damage in the north of the country, the fact it
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
Mid-2009 Core2Duo laptop (Dell Studio 15), occasionally hooked up to a 19" external monitor with an aspect ratio deliberately different to that of the laptop. Also have Ubuntu on an ageing machine to do a bit of cross-browser testing work.
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Show HN: Word/Image game - Woordplay
1 points by stevefarnworth 16y ago|0 comments
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
Some gems don't function correctly with Ruby 1.9.1, and a lot have minor issues with Rails 3. Although sometimes it's more an issue with the documentation as opposed to code issues.
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
Nice concept - not only as a bit of fun, but as visual feedback as to what types of photos your followers prefer to see from you.
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
I don't visit TM, mainly because I follow a large swathe of tech publications on Twitter, and that's how I get my breaking tech stories - so have no real need for aggregation on stories I've already read. Whereas I've found HN to be much mo
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
Fair point, and I suppose that IMaaS is going to have a good profit margin, but the sheer numbers of people I know who have bought a BlackBerry handset because of BBM probably wouldn't have had it been available cross-platform.
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
Hmm, whilst I welcome the move, I think it's a poor decision by RIM to do it. Seeing as most of my email is handled by Google Apps, the only real draw (and because of friends and family members with BlackBerrys, it was a large draw) for me
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
Everyone learns in different ways, there are lots of people who are "viewers", who learn by watching others do something and there are also those who learn by reading about a topic. Both are perfectly acceptable forms of learning, and the d
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
I know it's a short, light-hearted video, but that's what I imagine the YC interview to be like for some reason. Probing questions, asked politely and framed in a way to see what your response is, not just ticking questions and answers of
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
Didn't know anything about R until seeing this post, downloaded the Windows binary and within the hour I was producing graphs. Much easier to get into than MatLab (used it at uni, which is probably why I have an aversion to it!). Really nic
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
Microsoft has one of the largest and most comprehensive suites of test hardware available. They have rooms with hundreds of computers with varying levels of hardware performance that they test important builds on. They do their job, if the
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
I was put off by having to get my forms notarized, not because it's particularly difficult, but it seems to be a completely unnecessary hurdle. After being dispirited by RIMs process, I immediately went and registered as an Android develope
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
Are you paying more? From a user perspective, they're explicitly being charged the same for the content. We can't view it completely from our developers perspective, because the average user just doesn't care.
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
From Apple's press release: Publishers who use Apple’s subscription service in their app can also leverage other methods for acquiring digital subscribers outside of the app. For example, publishers can sell digital subscriptions on their
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
So because some apps abuse the system, we all have to suffer writing lots of extra code? In one of my apps, I request read/write access and then allow the user to select whether they want to tweet on an interaction basis, not on a connectio
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
They're getting: a) the founding team, b) a "vanity" acquisition which looks good to shareholders and c) the beginnings of a new social graph - imagine pairing their great content stable with a stack of new social hooks. Makes sense now tha
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
Jason, I respect you and your work ethic, am a massive fan of TWiST and have been a Jason Nation subscriber for a long time. BUT, personally I don't believe this HR ethic will work long-time with the emergence of better angel funding. You'r
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
That's exactly my approach. I spent a month on a project not really getting anywhere, putting things off and moving things 2/3 pixels in CSS code doing "work". I then bought a whiteboard, itemised in root-level terms the tasks I needed to g
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
Nice to see "How to Get Rich" by Felix Dennis in there. Best lesson from that book? "Equity isn't the main thing, it's the only thing", as in, don't give away any part of the only thing you have of value; your business, unless you have to.
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
I have to say I agree with cperciva, the first thing that jumped to my mind was that the meals must start at 12/1pm and finish at a "normal" time for a semi-formal dinner of about 12/1am.
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
Yes, I was wondering about the YC process as being involved in a London start-up, the dream is obviously to take it to YC and the Valley. Has anyone here on HN got into YC from London?
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
Argue about it all you want, but I will never accept a company's valuation based on second market stock. Only when the stock is publicly trade-able and market forces determine the price to be paid will I accept a valuation. And a valuation
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
I signed up for Rackspace Cloud Servers because I've been more used to traditional hosting, and switching to AWS would (I believe) have been a step too far for my abilities at the time, and I have to say, it's been nothing but great. The kn
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by stevefarnworth 16y ago
No. What you suggest is socially destructive, buying an expensive car is socially neutral. Why such an aversion to expensive cars? I'd rather live in a studio apartment with a Ferrari, than a 4 bedroom house (which I don't need - as it's ju

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