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by jlees 17y ago
Games blogs are usually fairly focused on games themselves, not the meta stuff around selling and buying them. OK, at Joystiq et al we would often do stuff like sales charts and in-person reports from the Xbox 360 line, but readers mostly v
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by jlees 17y ago
Being able to learn HTML in a weekend and put it up on a Geocities page was pretty much the start of my career (if you can call it that) of creating stuff for the web, something which I'm still loving 12? years later. A grey, Times New Roma
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by jlees 17y ago
pg actually spelt it out during the talk, as well.
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by jlees 17y ago
I think it's proportional to the perceived fame/importance of your brand. My startup launched something locally this summer, associated with a particularly cool event. I get anything from the 'wow you run your own company' to 'wow you made
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by jlees 17y ago
Could be a specific reference to a particularly big problem the quoter had, in which case i.e. is just about o.k.
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by jlees 17y ago
it's particularly interesting when your co-founder is female. (or, you're a female co-founder teaming up with a guy.)
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by jlees 17y ago
Paul's talk was refreshing, but is he always like that? He kinda seemed high. I'll definitely know I'm successful when I can just stand on stage and ramble about my life in front of 800 people. How awesome!
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by jlees 17y ago
To be honest he wasn't the only one asking stupid/long-winded/time-wasting questions. Some people kinda need to learn how to prepare and succinctly make a point.
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by jlees 17y ago
Oh, no. I lived with two of them for several years. Though their joke papers were never quite this amusing.
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by jlees 17y ago
broken for me just now.
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by jlees 17y ago
That's the problem though, mobile communication seems to end up with so many lies, excuses, or reasons to fiddle the truth.. far more than any other medium. Sure, letters can get 'lost' in the post, an email can 'bounce' or 'sorry, it was m
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by jlees 17y ago
Doug's story is pretty cool, but for anyone wishing to get straight to the job description: http://bit.ly/Twitter_Platform
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by jlees 17y ago
The only non-standard challenge presented by this project is the need to develop screen-scraping regular expressions for individual online communities that are run on custom software. My spider-senses are tingling. I don't like the sound
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by jlees 17y ago
I think it's really the smug air that surrounds Mixergy and Andrew. (Disclaimer, haven't met the guy, but from his site, I'm afraid I don't really want to.) You have an excellent point though that selective HN highlighting of half-decent co
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by jlees 17y ago
There's even a wordpress plugin that detects where you come from and tells/asks you to digg/upvote items if you come from an appropriate site. (Maybe Andrew's using it?). It makes my eyes bleed, but I bet it works...
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by jlees 17y ago
Why not check out some of the Google Summer of Code projects? Not that you could necessarily get the money, but the projects associated with the program are generally accessible and interesting.
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by jlees 17y ago
One-off: Twitter Python API, Wordpress and some other PHP OSS cruft. Curious/Guilty: Most other things I've played with. Have occasionally emailed developer(s) or commented on threads/mailing lists without submitting a formal patch. Lucene
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by jlees 17y ago
Seen this before - is it actually shipping now, hence the news? My ex officemate (university offices, paint wasn't an option) ordered a ton of magic whiteboard sheets and got the same effect - very impressive. The only problem is knowing wh
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by jlees 17y ago
It's impressive technically but it's a terrible UI.
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by jlees 17y ago
I imagine a far greater proportion of the potential audience consists of (guys who get offended on behalf of women for sexist behaviour) than consists of (women who may or may not care). On that basis this behaviour should be stopped. Not b
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by jlees 17y ago
To be fair I often count the number of other women at tech events I go to... mostly because it's obvious and easy. I mean, I don't even need to take my socks off.
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by jlees 17y ago
I am a woman, in case that wasn't clear. I'm fine with the level of stuff that goes on and is acceptable in my culture . And I worked in gaming, covering booth-babe laden expos, for several years. Guys don't need to get outraged for us.
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by jlees 17y ago
It's the kind of image that has been prevalent in the gaming industry for eons. I wonder how disparate the percentages of female hackers (if you can define hacker sufficiently) versus women in gaming are. Certainly in gaming we're pretty mu
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by jlees 17y ago
Indeed, I was aware of this back when I first got a Pro account and this guy should have been too. It's not a new change.
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by jlees 17y ago
We're in this field as well and the number of people who have suggested we sell/licence our tech to government and police agencies is pretty surprising. I'm not down with that, ethically, but there's definitely a need for people who are.
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by jlees 17y ago
I'd love to enter this if it wasn't just Java. I understand why , but it's still an unfortunate hurdle!
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by jlees 17y ago
Neither of my parents was self-employed but my grandmother ran a successful business in London for many years. My grandfather on the other side ran a pub his entire life.
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by jlees 17y ago
The UK Guardian used to be so noteworthy for its typos that it was nicknamed the Grauniad... this isn't new.
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by jlees 17y ago
Another programmer. He doesn't need feeding that often and he's quite well toilet trained...
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by jlees 17y ago
I like to go through past puzzles from the Informatics Olympiad ( http://www.olympiad.org.uk/ ) for a more theoretical less programmy type of challenge.

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