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by robinwarren 16y ago
This is a nice distinction between what you mean when you say we vs. I. With a company of more than one it's pretty obvious you'd say we but I think it's fair to say the same when representing the company as an entity. If nothing else it me
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by robinwarren 16y ago
I agree completely and we've made hires based more on the strength of peoples passion for programming than a specific skill set. This works excellently I think for junior or mid level positions beyond that though I think you really are look
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by robinwarren 16y ago
adblock and http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/ works for me. a handful of blogs from the cooking forlder of my google reader: http://justcookit.blogspot.com/ http://www.toomanychefs.com/ http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/ http://www.101co
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by robinwarren 16y ago
As a person who's been doing some hiring recently ( http://www.covalentsoftware.com/company/careers.php if anyone's interested in Java work in Taunton ;))... I'd suggest definitely putting OS projects on your cv, if they're more relevant
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by robinwarren 16y ago
Sorry if this answer isn't useful being something of a 'you're asking the wrong question' approach but here goes... If you've got capital do you need a cofounder or could you look instead for an employee. If they turn out to be as good as y
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by robinwarren 16y ago
There is this one which seems the most popular at the moment. Put your weight behind that and see if we can get it where more people will see it. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270790
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by robinwarren 16y ago
Taunton, England (near Bristol) Java developers wanting a great working environment, in Taunton. We've an expanding thick client app, we're already market leading in the UK for public sector and currently looking to expand into other market
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Ask HN: Who's Hiring (March 2011)
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by robinwarren 16y ago
'Motorola says that the Atrix and its docking system represents the company's vision of the future of computing. The notion of carrying around your entire computing experience in your pocket and simply plugging it into other form factors...
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Android phone docks to become laptop (arstechnica.com)
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by robinwarren 16y ago
see the actual chance of dying from cancer here: http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerBasics/lifetime-probabili... So for men the lifetime risk of dying from some kind of cancer goes from about 23% to around 19% based on the 21% reduction i
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by robinwarren 16y ago
Fair point about their dominance of the mp3 player market, but I think the mobile phone market is a lot closer to PCs. More people have computers or expect to own one than have mp3 players. Pretty much everyone is going to get a mobile phon
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by robinwarren 16y ago
re (b) I don't know that Google can control that well enough. I'd think it more likely they'd control the appearance of being #1 than they'd actually be able to stop it happening.
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by robinwarren 16y ago
I've been thinking a bit about this recently as I've seen a number of people getting android devices because they were offered them as an upgrade when they renewed their contract. They weren't interested in spending money to get an iPhone b
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by robinwarren 16y ago
Taunton, England (near Bristol) Java developers wanting a great working environment, in Taunton. We've an expanding thick client app, we're already market leading in the UK for public sector and currently looking to expand into other market
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Things to do when your startup gets popular - Capacity Planning(thecodeofbob.blogspot.com)
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Latvian hacker tweets hard on banking whistle(securityfocus.com)
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by robinwarren 17y ago
pretty standard telegraph fare, the only reason to read this is to find out how they manage to link the story to paedophiles
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by robinwarren 17y ago
We do something similar around each major release, we call it Branching Day as it's when we create the maintenance branch in cvs. We branch on the thursday and each developer is free to try something new out to kick off development on the n