danw
Re:How sexist can a web developer job ad get?
on Thursday August 08, 2013 @05:36AM (#6177986)
You're an asshole! Oh, you're offended? IT WAS TONGUE IN CHEEK
Re:A London pub now accepts payment in Bitcoin
on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @11:42AM (#5899901)
I think bitcoins just count as assets
Re:On Being A Designer And A Developer: Not Quite Unicorn Rare
on Monday April 29, 2013 @08:22AM (#5625629)
Nope.
Re:Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok
on Sunday November 18, 2012 @06:50PM (#4802146)
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) Seek alternate sponsor without the concerns
3) Seek non-sponsorship funding (bank loan, kickstarter)
4) Cancel conference, transfer blame onto those who stated event diversity.
Re:Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok
on Sunday November 18, 2012 @06:34PM (#4802114)
This is all I could find. The @britruby account has deleted some of their tweets too.
Re:Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok
on Sunday November 18, 2012 @06:18PM (#4802067)
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 criticisms.
Re:Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok
on Sunday November 18, 2012 @05:47PM (#4801971)
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 deleted.
Re:Peter Thiel: Startup CEO Salaries Shouldn’t Be Above $150,000
on Sunday April 22, 2012 @07:53PM (#3876592)
This. In your 20s and earning more than £20k? Well done. Now shut up and ship.
Re:The Hack Day Manifesto
on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @11:07AM (#3822492)
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.
Re:The Hack Day Manifesto
on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @11:05AM (#3822484)
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
Re:The Hack Day Manifesto
on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @11:04AM (#3822472)
DHCP pool being exhausted or NAT table getting full are the two main problems I've seen at hackdays
InstaQueue: Photos from iPhone 4S lines (Made in an evening, what do you think?)
Re:SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5
on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @12:10PM (#3043905)
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)
Conference Nonsense
Re:Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Interim CEO
on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @05:21AM (#2968907)
"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 about what did and didn't work there
[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2008/dec/11/yahoo-mobile...
The Gender Ratio of SXSW Speakers & Submissions
Re:Machine Learning Fairy Dust
on Monday July 18, 2011 @11:54AM (#2776779)
The cloud will solve it
Ladies and Gentleman, this is the BBC
DisplayCabinet - our 24 hour Internet of Things hack. What do you think?
Re:History of the [Western] world in 100 seconds [According to Wikipedia]
on Thursday March 24, 2011 @10:06AM (#2364089)
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
Re:Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXS...
on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @02:05PM (#2251060)
Would love to learn more about that
Re:Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXS...
on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @02:04PM (#2251056)
"The infamous party scene is already well addressed by an abundance of other startups."
- Is there a list of these apps?
Re:Ask HN: Does anyone actually code at a hackathon?
on Saturday February 19, 2011 @08:17PM (#2240576)
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 they get to directly ask "Which bits of this did you write today?".
Re:Ask HN: Does anyone actually code at a hackathon?
on Saturday February 19, 2011 @08:11PM (#2240559)
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 developers and designers overnight who want to actually make interesting things.
Re:When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?
on Thursday February 10, 2011 @06:56AM (#2201623)
I could draw the stick people in SVG
Re:When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?
on Monday February 07, 2011 @08:59AM (#2188889)
Some folks seem to have dns problems with it, no idea why
Re:When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?
on Monday February 07, 2011 @05:36AM (#2188437)
Thanks for the heads up, I've fixed the all.css 404.
The raphael code could do with cleaning up too
Re:When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?
on Monday February 07, 2011 @03:23AM (#2188207)
I wouldn't expect much difference. Weekends tend to be busiest as most folks work weekdays for example
Re:When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?
on Monday February 07, 2011 @03:21AM (#2188205)
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