Hacker News: DarrenStuart

New comment by DarrenStuart in "Founders aren't programmers = doomed ?"

DarrenStuart — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:55:52 +0000

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.

New comment by DarrenStuart in "Founders aren't programmers = doomed ?"

DarrenStuart — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:12:31 +0000

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

New comment by DarrenStuart in "Founders aren't programmers = doomed ?"

DarrenStuart — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:04:39 +0000

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.

New comment by DarrenStuart in "Founders aren't programmers = doomed ?"

DarrenStuart — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:06:40 +0000

google, Microsoft etc :p

New comment by DarrenStuart in "Best Books For a Startup?"

DarrenStuart — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:04:12 +0000

I think news.yc needs a search.

Heres some we added 3 days ago :p

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

New comment by DarrenStuart in "Best Books For a Startup?"

DarrenStuart — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:02:21 +0000

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

New comment by DarrenStuart in "Microsoft getting into the platform as a service market in a rather major though stealthy way"

DarrenStuart — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:20:19 +0000

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.

New comment by DarrenStuart in "Y Combinator Demo Day Roundup"

DarrenStuart — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:44:44 +0000

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.

New comment by DarrenStuart in "AOL acquires Bebo for 850 million"

DarrenStuart — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:47:52 +0000

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?

AOL acquires Bebo for 850 million

DarrenStuart — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:35:12 +0000

Article URL: http://www.centernetworks.com/aol-acquires-bebo-850-million

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=135898

Points: 54

# Comments: 17

New comment by DarrenStuart in "Ask YC: How many forums do you use?"

DarrenStuart — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:33:31 +0000

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.

New comment by DarrenStuart in "Ask YC: How many forums do you use?"

DarrenStuart — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:30:44 +0000

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

New comment by DarrenStuart in "10 Ways to Improve Your Programming Productivity"

DarrenStuart — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:59:33 +0000

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?

DarrenStuart — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:53:23 +0000

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.

How 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.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=135605

Points: 6

# Comments: 9

New comment by DarrenStuart in "[dead]"

DarrenStuart — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:26:17 +0000

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?

New comment by DarrenStuart in "Ask YC: What would you put on a hacker's bookshelf?"

DarrenStuart — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:20:36 +0000

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.

New comment by DarrenStuart in "Little Known Hacker News Is My First Read Every Morning"

DarrenStuart — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:32:17 +0000

lol, no sense of humour I guess

New comment by DarrenStuart in "Hacker News Site Guidelines"

DarrenStuart — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:07:26 +0000

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

New comment by DarrenStuart in "Little Known Hacker News Is My First Read Every Morning"

DarrenStuart — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:50:19 +0000

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

New comment by DarrenStuart in "Are .NET developers the American tourists of the software industry?"

DarrenStuart — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:47:46 +0000

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