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by brackin 15y ago
Twitter is very much mainstream. In the UK especially.
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by brackin 15y ago
Great thing to do but it doesn't seem to teach much of the basics. I'm not a developer but learning the core concepts of Programming at the moment and I can see someone doing the same thing for HTML may not understand anything about tags if
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by brackin 15y ago
Great stuff! Excited about this because of the team and the vision to fix email which seems to have stopped after Gmail launched. All of the other services are plugins ontop of Gmail which as a user I find incredibly annoying as it isn't th
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by brackin 15y ago
I definitely disagree with auto submitting but don't believe that Hacker News should be more locked down. There is always a lot of complaints about content but there is an inherent system allowing posters to know what the mass wants rather
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by brackin 15y ago
Interested what the HN community thinks of this one. I believe getting the major players onto a platform allows for mass adoption but once the platform is open for other content producers you can bring the major entities onto the same level
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Y Combinator’s Short-sighted War Against Hollywood(benparr.com)
106 points by brackin 15y ago|68 comments
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by brackin 15y ago
I sleep an average 4 - 6 hours a night.
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by brackin 15y ago
I'd agree this is terrible but also say I've seen Silicon Valley startups look at a hot web property in Asia or Europe and clone it, raise a lot of money and take credit for it a number of times.
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by brackin 15y ago
Long time DuckDuckGo user, very excited by this update. All I want at this point is speed.
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by brackin 15y ago
I've rang PayPal before and been treated like an idiot. I got a notification to call and was told that the manager in charge of that issue won't be back for a few days so call back them. A far cry from the 24/7 support a few companies are s
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by brackin 15y ago
Oh I see. Think how much more they can achieve with the freedom and time they have, of course to each of these points there are disadvantages. But for those that are truly self directed and succeeded on their own accord this won't matter. I
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by brackin 15y ago
In what way? She applied, is very intelligent and has shown her project, which the mentors must have liked. Why shouldn't she get in? It was likely nothing to do with her parents contacts or upbringing. Rather how much she had achieved and
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by brackin 15y ago
Hey no age bracket. It's not for teenagers only, one of the founders is in his mid twenties and should have a diverse age range. We want to start a meetup that doesn't identify with some of the 'old business' trends that are a part of many
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by brackin 15y ago
Hope to see you there. Should be good. We've got quite a few people coming from across England. That's one reason why we decided every three months. So we can make it a great event and give people time to plan.
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Introducing the Tomorrow's Web Meetup, London.
5 points by brackin 15y ago|4 comments
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by brackin 15y ago
Yesterday was the first day I'd blocked Hacker News to get work done, ironically it was the moment when I needed something like this the most. Oh well, seems really cool. I'm glad the flash, closed alternative Prezi has a rival as this seem
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by brackin 15y ago
I've achieved this in school if that counts. GetDealy which runs flash sales for designers and geeks has 35,000+ users and 2.3 million credits earned, which is our rewards system. http://getdealy.com
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by brackin 15y ago
I'm not sure the majority are from the US. Maybe it'll be the largest item but the others together may outweigh it.
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by brackin 15y ago
Although many Europeans are at work and may not be on HN, I'd expect to see the most votes from Asia.
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by brackin 15y ago
I agree, Berlin or London are great startup hubs to look at. I'm in London and there's a great community and lots of people hiring but I hear so many good things about Berlin. Quite a few Silicon Valley startups are opening up offices in Lo
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by brackin 15y ago
This trend should really help get more developers on board. Mac software is already very good, in fact I don't feel like there's really much missing. The only hole would be in gaming and the fact the market share is growing globally should
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Mac platform reaches 15-year high with 5% worldwide market share.(appleinsider.com)
2 points by brackin 15y ago|2 comments
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by brackin 15y ago
Very different products. Although this product is slightly expensive for what it is. It seems that this is more for supporting the campaign and a young company. It does seem to be something I'd find very useful in day to day life.
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by brackin 15y ago
Square reminds me of the Netbook in 2009. They were very successful in the short time but they weren't moving forward and everyone knew the tablet would eventually rule. NFC will eventually take over and they'll either fade out or have to r
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Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21(techcrunch.com)
764 points by brackin 15y ago|230 comments
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by brackin 15y ago
Didn't really work for London. I live about an hour away but am fine with going to London when there's startup events. The 5 events shown in London are all either joke pages, local bar quizes or people's private events (Birthday Parties).
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by brackin 15y ago
Mountain View is cheaper and has quite a lot of startups. Palo Alto is a nicer area, still destraction free and full of great startups. (Flipboard, Quora, Pinterest, Stripe, Color, Shazam, etc). You'll still be traveling to SF quite a lot m
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37signals has hired a full time filmmaker to document its every move.(thenextweb.com)
2 points by brackin 15y ago|0 comments
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by brackin 15y ago
Yes you're right but the reason I am is because there are so few even if there's only a couple using these methods they make up a large percentage of incubators in the UK. I'm referring to http://oxygenaccelerator.com/
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by brackin 15y ago
All of the incubators in the UK are mediocre from what I've seen, some in fact ask the applicants to repay the investment yet still take a big chunk of equity. The only real exception I've seen is Seedcamp, which is great. Some others take

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