bbsabelli | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is it a good idea to launch a startup during holiday season?
Launch. You'll hopefully be around in a year, so anything you learn now will be useful a year from now too.
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bbsabelli | 16 years ago | on: The Australian Government has greenlighted compulsory internet filtering
Wow, the comments here really suck. Filtered != Illegal, so work around it if you need to and tell your family and friends how.
bbsabelli | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit?
Visual Studio Express is free.
bbsabelli | 16 years ago | on: Tell HN: We just launched GeoAPI.com (read/write geo API)
Huh?
New York: http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=40.724039,-74.00176
What am I missing here?
bbsabelli | 16 years ago | on: Symptoms of Successful Entrepreneurs
4. They don't read blog posts about Entrepreneurs?
bbsabelli | 16 years ago | on: Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino
doesn't seem to work
bbsabelli | 16 years ago | on: On the quiet, the US is legalising marijuana
rot?
bbsabelli | 16 years ago | on: Homepage of Berkshire Hathaway, 17th biggest company in the world
bbsabelli | 16 years ago | on: I Wouldn't Hire a Programmer With No Interest in Programming Outside of Work
Agreed, but I think you missed the point, which is...
If the programmer sitting in front of him for an interview doesn't program outside of work hours, how did he/she get the interview in the first place? His conclusion is that they must have been goofing off at work during the day on open source forums, blogging or using twitter.
bbsabelli | 16 years ago | on: GDB 7.0 released
Love GDB. It has saved my life many times, but who uses it anymore? Not trolling, just curious. Managed code has won, has it not?
bbsabelli | 16 years ago | on: Drupal Sucks
No.
bbsabelli | 16 years ago | on: Online Dating Advice: Exactly What To Say In A First Message
Interesting. And predicatable?
I suspect that incorporating the second date conversion rates would skew this data significantly since vegetarian atheists are rarely alike.
bbsabelli | 16 years ago | on: Google introduces "Fast Flip"
Isn't Google "Flip" enough? Why would they add "Fast" to the name?
bbsabelli | 16 years ago | on: Somebody Has To Say It: It’s Time For iTunes Lite
Slightly off topic, but I'd like to know how Apple managed to remove physical media whilst keeping the same pricing.
I'm no economist, but shouldnt the massive iTunes media surplus supply reduce the prices significantly?
bbsabelli | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is version control worth learning early on?
Yes. But don't just learn the tool, learn what problem it solves. Tools have changed significantly over the years, but the principles are the same.
bbsabelli | 16 years ago | on: SuperUser now open to the public: it's the StackOverflow site for power users
Jeff is an amazing guy. But, he clearly does not value design.
bbsabelli | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's a good programming language to start with?
Start with Visual Studio (VS) and program in either vb.net, or preferably c#.net. VS helps a lot while you're learning, and you can choose to program for either windows or the web. Add the MVC framework and you get a fairly decent web development environment where you can then look into JQuery and maybe even SQL.
Once you're happy there, a move to Python, PHP, Ruby or Java will be relatively easy.
You don't need to know a language like C unless you plan to work with the elders.
bbsabelli | 16 years ago | on: Why I Removed AVG from my Computer: A tale of abusive anti-virus-ware
Don't
bbsabelli | 17 years ago | on: HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?
Reasons?
bbsabelli | 17 years ago | on: HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?
Silverlight allows .Net developers to target a Rich web interface from Visual Studio. If you program in windows, you'll naturally choose Silverlight. If you want to develop using open standards, you'll choose html 5. Flash will be gone.