DarrenStuart
Re:Founders aren't programmers = doomed ?
on Sunday March 16, 2008 @07:55PM (#138518)
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.
Re:Founders aren't programmers = doomed ?
on Sunday March 16, 2008 @03:12PM (#138327)
how about you just delete my account Paul. I am done posing and joining in here so no lose to anyone.
Re:Founders aren't programmers = doomed ?
on Sunday March 16, 2008 @01:04PM (#138251)
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.
Re:Founders aren't programmers = doomed ?
on Sunday March 16, 2008 @09:06AM (#138145)
google, Microsoft etc :p
Re:Best Books For a Startup?
on Sunday March 16, 2008 @09:04AM (#138143)
I think news.yc needs a search.
Heres some we added 3 days ago :p
Re:Best Books For a Startup?
on Sunday March 16, 2008 @09:02AM (#138142)
Steven Levy is great, I would add his Crypto book as well.
Re:Microsoft getting into the platform as a service market in a rather...
on Saturday March 15, 2008 @09:20AM (#137510)
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.
Re:Y Combinator Demo Day Roundup
on Friday March 14, 2008 @03:44PM (#137109)
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.
Re:AOL acquires Bebo for 850 million
on Thursday March 13, 2008 @08:47AM (#135909)
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?
Re:Ask YC: How many forums do you use?
on Thursday March 13, 2008 @05:33AM (#135857)
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.
Re:Ask YC: How many forums do you use?
on Thursday March 13, 2008 @05:30AM (#135854)
yeah I have to agree I often think they are over looked.
Re:10 Ways to Improve Your Programming Productivity
on Wednesday March 12, 2008 @07:59PM (#135607)
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.
Ask YC: How many forums do you use?
I have an idea I have been toying with for a long time and wonder if you guys still used forums in this day and age of social sites like this one etc.SoHow many other forums do you use? Are you very active on them? What forum software are they running if you know?thanks in advance guys.
Re:Ask YC: Can we have a report spam button?
on Wednesday March 12, 2008 @01:26PM (#135292)
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?
Re:Ask YC: What would you put on a hacker's bookshelf?
on Wednesday March 12, 2008 @01:20PM (#135284)
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.
Re:Little Known Hacker News Is My First Read Every Morning
on Tuesday March 11, 2008 @06:32AM (#134118)
lol, no sense of humour I guess
Re:Hacker News Site Guidelines
on Monday March 10, 2008 @08:07PM (#133599)
shouldn't this list be on or linked on the submit page?
Re:Little Known Hacker News Is My First Read Every Morning
on Monday March 10, 2008 @07:50PM (#133590)
oh well at least scoble didn't get a whiteboard out to explain how it works :p
Re:Are .NET developers the American tourists of the software industry?
on Monday March 10, 2008 @07:47PM (#133588)
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
Re:Are .NET developers the American tourists of the software industry?
on Monday March 10, 2008 @02:10PM (#133295)
> 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
Re:Ask YC: how is SimpleDB?
on Monday March 10, 2008 @08:32AM (#133095)
yeah I got it fairly quickly because I am using the other services.
Re:Are .NET developers the American tourists of the software industry?
on Monday March 10, 2008 @08:29AM (#133093)
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.
However I have met a lot of really good coders who use .net as a tool that has been given to them to use.
I don't want to get into a flamewar but the article did make me wonder if most developers view .net developers as lesser developers because of their chosen toolset. Does this have more to do with the hate of MS or do they really believe it.
From a knowledge point of view .net requries a lot more traditional programming skills than ruby ever does. I bet .net developers don't look down on ruby developers in the same way.
Re:My dream co-founder (a little correction from a reply)
on Sunday March 09, 2008 @12:11PM (#132516)
wtf?
Re:Email to Postal
on Sunday March 09, 2008 @12:10PM (#132514)
I am in agreement. This sounds like an idea that was not thought out.
Human Data as a Playfield: The Passively Multiplayer Online Game
7 startup savings tips
Re:Ask YC: What is your preferable development environment?
on Thursday March 06, 2008 @03:44PM (#130810)
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.
Re:Ask YC: What is your preferable development environment?
on Thursday March 06, 2008 @05:06AM (#130470)
.net vs05(vs08 seems like it needs a service pack) on windows
php coda/code igniter on mas osx(using mamp)