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sorry had to correct this. I was replying to this I'm struggling to give some examples. I don't know if either of lastminute.com's founders were coders. so google and MS are perfec…

how about you just delete my account Paul. I am done posing and joining in here so no lose to anyone.

so I get down modded for giving examples.... I know its not cool to moan about down modding but at least people could give a reason.

google, Microsoft etc :p

I think news.yc needs a search. Heres some we added 3 days ago :p http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=135185

Steven Levy is great, I would add his Crypto book as well.

I like the look of some of these products that MS are working on but there is noway I am going to touch them until they become offical 1.1 releases.

is there any video of the presentations? on paper some of these seem like hacker projects not startups so I would love to see how they see value in these startups.

I dunno they seem to be buying a lot of stuff recently so they must have some cash. Don't forget its time warner as well isn't it?

yeah I wasn't sure. I think its kinda a forum more of a hybrid. I would love some for forum like features if I was honest. Split the questions, news and cool links and I think it w…

yeah I have to agree I often think they are over looked.

excellent read, I agree with pretty much all of it. my tip for not being side tracked is... make your home page on your development machine blank. Being a webdeveloper I found ever…

I have an idea I have been toying with for a long time and wonder if you guys still used forums in this day and age of social sites like this one etc. So How many other forums do y…

yeah I agree I have never seen any spam on here so they must be doing a good job. Plus whos going to vote for spam?

designing the obvious - a common sense approach to web application design by Robert Hoekman Jr The New New Thing Masters of Doom (story of id software, great story) Smart Start-ups…

lol, no sense of humour I guess

shouldn't this list be on or linked on the submit page?

oh well at least scoble didn't get a whiteboard out to explain how it works :p

Its an untyped, interpreted and does not have any heritage with the likes of C or even basic. I guess it's heritage is smalltalk which I did enjoy when I studied. Don't get me wron…

> At least part of it is that in many cases it's not their chosen toolset; it's what they were given. read my post I already said that. > How so? You can figure this out yourself b…

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=132451 or http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2008/03/human-data-as-...

yeah I got it fairly quickly because I am using the other services.

being a .net contractor myself I have to agree and then disagree. The most day coders I have come across are in the .net field but as I work in this field I don't know if this is t…