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by philbarr 12y ago
Getting a bit tired with all the downvoting going on at the moment. I also have downvoting rights, but I hardly ever use them unless I see something offensive. Give it a rest, people.
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by philbarr 12y ago
As someone who writes a plugin for Outlook as his day job, I can think of many, many better questions than this. For example, at the moment it's, "why is Outlook ruining my life?"
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by philbarr 12y ago
Yes I would very much like to know what those dangers actually ARE, please! And particularly, how those dangers are different to the things you have to worry about when writing anything that runs on a web server - e.g. Servlets.
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by philbarr 12y ago
I'm becoming increasingly annoyed with this kind of article or political statement. Look man, we know we're being screwed over. We all do. Why don't you tell us what to do about it? Oh what's that? You don't have an
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by philbarr 12y ago
Correct. And dammit, I hate making simple punctuation or grammatical mistakes.
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by philbarr 12y ago
Here's mine: Dear MP, I hope you will be voting against the emergency legislation being forced through parliament on Monday to make phone and internet companies log all information. As a software professional with over a decade's
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by philbarr 12y ago
It's better than "facetime". I mean you can't really say, "I'm just going to facetime the wife" without a little chortle. Call me immature ('cos I sort of am).
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by philbarr 12y ago
I didn't go to Stanford. What's Stanford?
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by philbarr 12y ago
Absolutely agree. I can't count the number of times I've seen some horrendous LINQ thing when a simple for loop would have sufficed, would have been easier to understand, and would have been far quicker.
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by philbarr 12y ago
> my wife constantly complains about how I can remember "all those coding things" but can't recall what she asked me to do <30 seconds ago. This happens to me all the time. I thought about maybe writing an app that reco
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by philbarr 12y ago
Because I don't want to live so long that I spend a large portion of my life in ever increasing pain and feeling my mind slip away from me. Just give me a short sharp shock around 80, if you can please. Of course, that's what I th
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by philbarr 12y ago
I'm guessing, "too young". "Eeh...back in my day, it were blink and marquee tags as far as the eye could see. We were doing web development for below minimum wage back then you see, and every hour, our cruel overlords wo
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by philbarr 12y ago
Yeah that makes sense, target the market that you're game is actually about rather than just "the game market". Makes sense when you think about it. By the way - I'm in the UK too. If you fancy someone to do the Android
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by philbarr 12y ago
You've done brilliantly with that. I've written a few apps/games myself although they're mostly a bit crap [1], and I make about £20 total a month. I think I need to spend much more time on them like you did, particularl
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by philbarr 12y ago
I've been thinking about consulting myself, and have slowly been working out solutions to those problems. Remember this is from someone who doesn't actually consult yet though . But since I seem to be the first one to comment her
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by philbarr 12y ago
All you have to do is pick a domain that isn't currently being used. A quick check on namecheap.com and I can have: priorpermission.com priorconsent.org priorconsent.me all for < £10
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by philbarr 12y ago
My initial thoughts are: - Exclusive rights to the brand name. [You mean you invented the name and you're going to let me use it?] - Ownership of dot-com domain. [£3/year] - Professionally designed logo. [search for "logo&quo
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by philbarr 12y ago
It seems to me that your target market is people who want a quick and easy web site design system, so probably the HNers are not your target market when most of them would be capable of using Bootstrap by themselves. That said then, maybe y
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by philbarr 12y ago
As it stands you can't in Java but you can in C#, although it's usually a really bad idea.
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by philbarr 12y ago
Rather ironic typo: "Strapfork is still in beta, should I wait untill it's launched? Quality is really important for us..."
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by philbarr 12y ago
I am right in thinking that Docker can virtualize any environment, as long as that environment is Linux, right? Because I have an office plugin I need to test against various different version of office and content management repository and
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by philbarr 12y ago
Where is this "designer news"? I've not heard of it. Is it as good as Hacker News?
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by philbarr 12y ago
> and no -- I will not mentioned the name/link nor the industry, please stop self promotion for once I don't think there's anything wrong with the self promotion! We do have Show HN, and a question like this is just beggin
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by philbarr 12y ago
Absolutely. It's almost as if some people think that children aren't really learning anything if they're enjoying it, in the same way that if you enjoy what you do and make a living off it then it's not "real work&q
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by philbarr 12y ago
Yes, if you included this data then you could add notification alerts to your mobile as well: "It is now sunny in the beer garden of your favourite pub." "Clear your schedule, there is an 80% chance of it being sunny in your
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by philbarr 12y ago
Looks good! Minor gripe: "Why did you make zzzz? DynDNS was a very popular dynamic DNS provider which in the 90s [did something?]."
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by philbarr 12y ago
...If anyone reads this, please tell me how you got my database back up.
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by philbarr 12y ago
That's a very useful tip that I will bear in mind. Are there any other common sense rules that we should remember when owning / transferring domains? I only own one so it's not something I deal with a lot.
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by philbarr 12y ago
I thought HN had moved away from calling everything an "ad hominem" but anyway - no it's not. I feel that my point is directly relevant. The Async "Manifesto" is just one person's opinion, it's not a group
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by philbarr 12y ago
No I didn't. I attacked the premise. Someone is attempting to piggyback the agile manifesto to express their own personal opinion. That opinion may or may not be valid, and is up for debate, but my point is that you can't just put

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