DarrenStuart

18 yıl öncediscuss

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.

DarrenStuart

18 yıl öncediscuss

how about you just delete my account Paul. I am done posing and joining in here so no lose to anyone.

DarrenStuart

18 yıl öncediscuss

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.

DarrenStuart

18 yıl öncediscuss

google, Microsoft etc :p

DarrenStuart

18 yıl öncediscuss

I think news.yc needs a search.

Heres some we added 3 days ago :p

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=135185

DarrenStuart

18 yıl öncediscuss

Steven Levy is great, I would add his Crypto book as well.

DarrenStuart

18 yıl öncediscuss

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.

DarrenStuart

18 yıl öncediscuss

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.

DarrenStuart

18 yıl öncediscuss

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?

DarrenStuart

18 yıl öncediscuss

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.

DarrenStuart

18 yıl öncediscuss

yeah I have to agree I often think they are over looked.

DarrenStuart

18 yıl öncediscuss

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 by some story.

I have also taken to getting up earlier and reading all I can first thing and then just getting on with it.

DarrenStuart

18 yıl öncediscuss

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?

DarrenStuart

18 yıl öncediscuss

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 Online Communities

steven levy's Hackers and crypto also for the history.

DarrenStuart

18 yıl öncediscuss

lol, no sense of humour I guess

DarrenStuart

18 yıl öncediscuss

shouldn't this list be on or linked on the submit page?

DarrenStuart

18 yıl öncediscuss

oh well at least scoble didn't get a whiteboard out to explain how it works :p

DarrenStuart

18 yıl öncediscuss

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 like basic used to be. extremely easy to program in but if you learn just ruby you would have a hard time jumping to another programming langunage than if you had come from C#, C/C++ etc

no flames please :p

DarrenStuart

18 yıl öncediscuss

> 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

DarrenStuart

18 yıl öncediscuss

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=132451

or

http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2008/03/human-data-as-...

DarrenStuart

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