Hacker News: danw

New comment by danw in "How sexist can a web developer job ad get?"

danw — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 09:36:29 +0000

You're an asshole! Oh, you're offended? IT WAS TONGUE IN CHEEK

New comment by danw in "A London pub now accepts payment in Bitcoin"

danw — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:42:47 +0000

I think bitcoins just count as assets

New comment by danw in "On Being A Designer And A Developer: Not Quite Unicorn Rare"

danw — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:22:47 +0000

Nope.

Young single white male with an iPhone? Our product is for you

danw — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:56:02 +0000

Article URL: http://taskrabbitsinlove.tumblr.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5206245

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by danw in "Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok"

danw — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:50:35 +0000

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.

New comment by danw in "Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok"

danw — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:34:36 +0000

This is all I could find. The @britruby account has deleted some of their tweets too.

http://www.exquisitetweets.com/collection/iamdanw/1898

New comment by danw in "Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok"

danw — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:18:51 +0000

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.

New comment by danw in "Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok"

danw — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 22:47:33 +0000

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.

http://www.exquisitetweets.com/collection/iamdanw/1898

New comment by danw in "Peter Thiel: Startup CEO Salaries Shouldn’t Be Above $150,000"

danw — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:53:15 +0000

This. In your 20s and earning more than £20k? Well done. Now shut up and ship.

New comment by danw in "The Hack Day Manifesto"

danw — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:07:44 +0000

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.

New comment by danw in "The Hack Day Manifesto"

danw — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:05:59 +0000

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

New comment by danw in "The Hack Day Manifesto"

danw — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:04:04 +0000

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?)

danw — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:02:41 +0000

Article URL: http://instaqueue.herokuapp.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3110418

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by danw in "SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5"

danw — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:10:51 +0000

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

danw — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:09:51 +0000

Article URL: http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2011/09/theres_a_lot_of_nonsense/index.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3001682

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by danw in "Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Interim CEO"

danw — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:21:36 +0000

"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

danw — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:59:36 +0000

Article URL: http://emmapersky.com/changing-the-ratio-at-sxsw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2925309

Points: 35

# Comments: 5

New comment by danw in "Machine Learning Fairy Dust"

danw — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:54:17 +0000

The cloud will solve it

Ladies and Gentleman, this is the BBC

danw — Tue, 24 May 2011 17:00:18 +0000

Article URL: http://www.technogoggles.com/2011/05/ladies-and-gentleman-this-is-the-bbc/

Hacker News: danw

New comment by danw in "How sexist can a web developer job ad get?"

New comment by danw in "A London pub now accepts payment in Bitcoin"

New comment by danw in "On Being A Designer And A Developer: Not Quite Unicorn Rare"

Young single white male with an iPhone? Our product is for you

New comment by danw in "Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok"

New comment by danw in "Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok"

New comment by danw in "Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok"

New comment by danw in "Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok"

New comment by danw in "Peter Thiel: Startup CEO Salaries Shouldn’t Be Above $150,000"

New comment by danw in "The Hack Day Manifesto"

New comment by danw in "The Hack Day Manifesto"

New comment by danw in "The Hack Day Manifesto"

InstaQueue: Photos from iPhone 4S lines (Made in an evening, what do you think?)

New comment by danw in "SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5"

Conference Nonsense

New comment by danw in "Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Interim CEO"

The Gender Ratio of SXSW Speakers & Submissions

New comment by danw in "Machine Learning Fairy Dust"

Ladies and Gentleman, this is the BBC

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