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zyphlar | 15 years ago | on: I'm Regretting Going WP7

More money, perhaps, but to me that's not saying much. As usual everyone is competing for 3rd place, not just in the market but in developers' hearts. Whichever platform gets an amazing new innovative app first wins, third loses. The rest didn't even place.

zyphlar | 15 years ago | on: Random defendant outlawyers P2P attorney, gets lawsuit tossed

What's awesome here (aside from living in Arizona just like the plaintiff) is that one of the defendants asked the Internet if he should get a lawyer: http://answers.justia.com/question/2010/12/11/i-am-being-sue...

Looks like conventional wisdom gets bucked again?

zyphlar | 15 years ago | on: The HoPE Manifesto: How I Taught Myself to Code

I like the article, and support anyone who wants to learn to code, but resent the increasingly frequent (and thus increasingly meaningless) use of the word hacker.

There is an identifiable and very real hacker culture and ethic. To me, a suit learning how to code and calling himself a hacker feels like a white guy going to his first sweat lodge and changing his name to running wolf. Congrats, now you've got a lifetime of coding, and hacking (two separate but related things) ahead of you. Enjoy the journey.

*Edit: More to the point, since I know YCombinator loves the word hacker... what I want is for you to treat it like the honorific it is. A gentleman doesn't call himself a gentleman. One does not call themself a sensei. I don't call myself Mister Zyphlar. Hacker is not in my twitter bio. Replace hacker with "l33t"; call yourself a L33t Coding Product Executive and see how long it takes for a chuckle of disbelief.

zyphlar | 15 years ago | on: Tell HN: 2 weeks ago, I didnt know programming. I just wrote a web scraper.

Or just paste.ly

zyphlar | 15 years ago | on: Tell HN: 2 weeks ago, I didnt know programming. I just wrote a web scraper.

I want to say you're totally wrong and ignorant, but in case you have a good point, please explain. How is organizing a business like organizing a program, practically speaking?

zyphlar | 15 years ago | on: Tell HN: 2 weeks ago, I didnt know programming. I just wrote a web scraper.

Visual studio is one of the best IDEs out there, so not a bad choice.

Just learn ruby on rails as soon as possible so you aren't tainted by the horrible sample code of c#/java/php. Ay least get into codeigniter.

zyphlar | 15 years ago | on: How not to design a landing page: Tazo Tea

Tazo isn't an island unto itself. Major brand websites affect the style of the entire internet (see Google and Twitter for two recent examples) and so it's right to say this is an example of a crappy 1998 "landing page."