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Ask HN: Dating Site API
2 points by zxcvb 16y ago|5 comments
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Tell HN: My day job is just as intensive as a startup
2 points by zxcvb 17y ago|3 comments
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by zxcvb 17y ago
Asking to see my facebook profile is like asking to see my family photo albums including any pictures that include my friends. Would your manager allow you to look through every photograph ever taken in their life?
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by zxcvb 17y ago
You've clearly never seen Dr Brian Cox the "Rock-star physicist" http://www.ted.com/talks/brian_cox_on_cern_s_supercollider.h...
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by zxcvb 17y ago
Why would you post links to ruby based irc frameworks here? I might as well of come here and posted VB, C++, or any other language, it's just spam. Not that we expect much more from a rails user though
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Ask HN: A new way of pricing financial software
6 points by zxcvb 17y ago|5 comments
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by zxcvb 17y ago
Why shouldn't the engineers have new Aeron chairs? Software Engineers spend most of their careers sat down, so you should buy them the best damn chair you can afford, something that supports their bodies and is very comfortable. Look at fog
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by zxcvb 17y ago
More paid placements than good students to take them right now in London, please get your facts right. The economy is not affected placements much at all, if anything cheap labour is good thing right now. Of course, you have to be the best
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by zxcvb 17y ago
Generally good companies give interns real world work in the UK. So much so, the teams you work with may not even know you are an intern. A year in industry is what secures good jobs for alot of good people. Coming out of Uni without a plac
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by zxcvb 17y ago
As long as you dont stay in Q&A for too long then you're ok. Otherwise you risked getting labelled as the Q&A guy and that will stick.
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by zxcvb 17y ago
You're way to late, good placements are usually gone by April, relying on the careers office was a massive mistake, it's far better to apply to all the big companies around December time. Any later and people like me have already taken the
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by zxcvb 17y ago
He's not living in a dream world. It's easy for a good student to land a job in one of the big companies right now (accenture, ibm, microsoft, campgemini etc) that's what I've just done. The chances of him not being able to afford to finish
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by zxcvb 17y ago
Most UK universities don't do it like that. Usually, the first year is worth nothing, the second year is 1/3 and the final year is 2/3. Sometimes you do an extra year inbetween the second and thid year if you take a year out in indsutry. Al
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by zxcvb 17y ago
Very eye opening and very touching.
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by zxcvb 17y ago
"Also, if a good idea saves you a month of hard work, it is worth exactly as much as the month of hard work, isn't it?" Still, ideas are nothing, any can have an idea, my idea is to set up a super cheap supermarket and become rich, the ide
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by zxcvb 17y ago
Of course I read it. I still think none of this is even remotely insulting. PHD doesnt mean your good, MS dont spawn brilliant ideas, and ideas are pretty much nothing, as paul graham seems to agree to.
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by zxcvb 17y ago
I don't understand why this would be downvoted. I wasn't rude or obnocious in any way, I just stated my opinions on the post. If you think I'm wrong then tell me why rather than trying to silence me. This isn't reddit.
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by zxcvb 17y ago
He didn't insult phd's or geeks and depending on how you look at it he didn't insult MS.
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by zxcvb 17y ago
These "myths" (which I don't think are even myths anymore) apply to male and female. I hate the way people still insist on seperation via gender
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by zxcvb 17y ago
He made mainly good points. It is true to say that Microsoft isn't innovative. They buy innnovation rather than spawn it. It is true to say PHD's aren't an automatic respect earner, in fact they aren't really useful unless you are doing som
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by zxcvb 17y ago
Already did that, they came as part of the restricted extras package
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by zxcvb 17y ago
As usual Linux firefox is the sux. I don't see how it manages to render HN news so differently to the windows version.
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Ask HN: Has HN had a facelift or is it just me?
1 points by zxcvb 17y ago|4 comments
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by zxcvb 17y ago
Obligatory comment to shout SPAM!
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Ask HN: How Much Experience Required Before I Become Self Employed?
4 points by zxcvb 17y ago|3 comments
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by zxcvb 18y ago
As long as you're having fun then that's great, and if it's something you find useful then that's even better. It's refreshing to see someone making something for the love rather making any old crap in an attempt to go 'viral'. :)
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by zxcvb 18y ago
The 'home' link in the top left corner is hard to read due to the font colour on the background colour. Red on a dark background is bad. When first landing on your site, I have no idea what I'm looking at. It's just random boxes with unrela
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by zxcvb 18y ago
Seems to me like you're participating in some sort of irrelevant drama about nothing that will benefit your life in any way what-so-ever.
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by zxcvb 18y ago
I voted you up one to stop you from crying.
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by zxcvb 18y ago
Can someone explain to me why people keep posting mozilla google start pages, among others?

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