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danwon How sexist can a web developer job ad get?

You're an asshole! Oh, you're offended? IT WAS TONGUE IN CHEEK

danwon A London pub now accepts payment in Bitcoin

I think bitcoins just count as assets

danwon On Being A Designer And A Developer: Not Quite Unicorn Rare

Nope.

danwon Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok

You are running an event. Running events is hard. You do not have money to cover upfront costs. Seek sponsorship to cover upfront costs.

Sponsor is possibly concerned over conference diversity. Solutions:

1) Address sponsors concerns

2) Seek alternate sponsor without the concerns

3) Seek non-sponsorship funding (bank loan, kickstarter)

4) Cancel conference, transfer blame onto those who stated event diversity.

danwon Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok

This is all I could find. The @britruby account has deleted some of their tweets too.

http://www.exquisitetweets.com/collection/iamdanw/1898

danwon Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok

Looking at the "trolls" I can't see any trolling. I see people criticising the conference for fair reasons that they care about, and trying to be helpful after initial snarky tweets.

This is not trolling. And I absolutely agree with their criticisms.

danwon Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok

What were the original tweets that caused so much trouble? I've tried to gather what I can but I don't see much 'trolling', just criticism, some polite and constructive, some less.

And there's a few tweets by @britruby that have been deleted.

http://www.exquisitetweets.com/collection/iamdanw/1898

danwon Peter Thiel: Startup CEO Salaries Shouldn’t Be Above $150,000

This. In your 20s and earning more than £20k? Well done. Now shut up and ship.

danwon The Hack Day Manifesto

Specifically for Science Hackday there's http://www.sciencehackday.com/.

In general http://lanyrd.com/ is the closest I've found, but it's still not comprehensive.

danwon The Hack Day Manifesto

This checklist seems very centred on the UK hackday format (which I very much enjoy). I've noticed US hackdays have a somewhat different culture, with different expectations, as do gamejams, etc

danwon The Hack Day Manifesto

DHCP pool being exhausted or NAT table getting full are the two main problems I've seen at hackdays

danwon SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

Does that include putting hideous adverts across the slides in 'HTML5'?

(I miss the early scribd & slideshare, before they started trying to make money to survive by plastering the place with adverts)

danwon Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Interim CEO

"Why doesn't Yahoo take a few million dollars in seed money and start a bunch of companies under its own umbrella using some of its own people?"

They did, it was called Yahoo Brickhouse. Yahoo closed it in 2008[1]. I'd love to know more about what did and didn't work there

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2008/dec/11/yahoo-mobile...

danwon Machine Learning Fairy Dust

The cloud will solve it

danwon History of the [Western] world in 100 seconds [According to Wikipedia]

The title appears to be a play on the BBC's popular A History of the World in 100 Objects: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/.

Also the bias highlights the flaw in the underlying data which is the English version of wikipedia

danwon Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive

Would love to learn more about that

danwon Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive

"The infamous party scene is already well addressed by an abundance of other startups."

- Is there a list of these apps?

danwon Ask HN: Does anyone actually code at a hackathon?

I noticed Leeds Hack solve this by the judges going around all the teams in the morning and having a friendly chat about the hacks being made. Gives them a chance to better understand the hacks as hackers aren't always good presenters and they get to directly ask "Which bits of this did you write today?".

danwon Ask HN: Does anyone actually code at a hackathon?

Can't say I've had this problem at any of the UK hackdays I frequently attend, only the US ones I've been to.

I think one of the differences is having an overnight. The networkers and loiterers bugger off after a few hours leaving just the developers and designers overnight who want to actually make interesting things.

danwon When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?

I could draw the stick people in SVG

danwon When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?

Some folks seem to have dns problems with it, no idea why

danwon When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?

Thanks for the heads up, I've fixed the all.css 404.

The raphael code could do with cleaning up too

danwon When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?

I wouldn't expect much difference. Weekends tend to be busiest as most folks work weekdays for example

danwon When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?

Wednesdays used to be quietest for cinemas in the UK but now it's one of the busiest thanks to the Orange 241 offer that's been running the past few years

danwon When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?

Good point, I should find a way to indicate what the graph is for.

danwon When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?

Yes it could be expanded. Because the Foursquare api doesn't provide historical data it takes a few weeks of monitoring the venue before I have useful data for it however

danwon When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?

Whoops. I should integrate with http://opening-times.co.uk/ perhaps. Although places like the fantastic Soane and Geffrye seem to get very few Foursquare checkins even at the busiest of times

danwon When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?

Thanks. I certainly need to add some kind of index/homepage that lists all the venues. The current 'venue roulette' navigation isn't exactly the best approach.

danwon Best Website Designs of 2010

I prefer the Drawar best of roundups because at least they provide a few paragraphs of explanation for each screenshot explaining what makes it exceptional: http://www.drawar.com/posts/2010-best-designs-2nd-quarter

danwon How do iPhone apps Instagram/DailyBooth/Path implement large center tab buttons?

That's lovely apart from the fact that having a camera button is inconsistent with tab navigation.