Hacker News: AGorilla

New comment by AGorilla in "Did Google Just Quietly Launch A Web-Based iTunes Competitor? Yep."

AGorilla — Thu, 20 May 2010 20:04:37 +0000

Techcrunch is using the term "launch" loosely here.

New comment by AGorilla in "First Look: Flash Arrives on New Android OS"

AGorilla — Thu, 20 May 2010 18:43:02 +0000

Who cares about websites made in flash? People want flash for games and video. With that in mind, I think that engadget tested the context that most of us care about.

New comment by AGorilla in "Google launches Google TV"

AGorilla — Thu, 20 May 2010 18:31:29 +0000

Can you provide a link to the demo?

New comment by AGorilla in "Google Code Blog: Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Directory"

AGorilla — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:49:55 +0000

Yet another attempt by Google to control our words and by proxy, our minds. Once everyone depends on this font API to make their social mobisodes pretty, Google will do some clever pixel altering to insert favorable articles about itself into the New York Times. They'll change the Chinese government's website to say "we suck", and a virtual stop-hitting-yourself slapfight will spillover into real world bloodshed.

WAKE UP SHEEPLE!

New comment by AGorilla in "Visa officially announces their case that turns your iPhone into a credit card"

AGorilla — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:27:12 +0000

This will not get widely adopted until Visa gets their H out of their A and makes the case look decent and not be bulky. They can fit this stuff into a tiny keyring, why does this case add an extra 4 inches to the bottom of the phone?

Attention everybody: STOP MAKING UGLY PHONE CASES

New comment by AGorilla in "What iPads Did To My Family"

AGorilla — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:14:54 +0000

My bike is faster than a car in philly

New comment by AGorilla in "Psychological manipulation - what I learned trying to save money on a sandwich"

AGorilla — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:03:50 +0000

When a sandwich/ice cream/big mac artist concedes to this, its most likely because they've already rung you up and don't want to go through the hassle of canceling the order and then re-inputting it correctly.

I don't get the logical leap from vendor to customer here. Impulse purchases are not exactly the same as an underpaid worker not wanting to have to deal with a hassle. It's still a valid technique for getting what you want, but not directly applicable when you are the seller.

New comment by AGorilla in "The Great Q&A Wars of 2009 ~ 2014 (Aardvark, Hunch, StackOverflow, and Quora)"

AGorilla — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:18:12 +0000

WTH are Aardvark, Hunch and Quora?

New comment by AGorilla in "Photographer Loves Math, Graphs Her Images"

AGorilla — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:30:39 +0000

You've answered your own question.

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AGorilla — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:13:11 +0000

n=2 could also mean "Bison do harangue."

New comment by AGorilla in "Why my Dad went through 24 TVs in 2 years"

AGorilla — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:04:24 +0000

I think the real reason it was easier to sell these TVs from his home is that the HDTV market is so confusing right now to the average end-user that they just want an informed person to give them an honest "this is what you should buy". Who is more qualified than a TV salesman to make this recommendation and when is he more honest than when he's selling to himself?

New comment by AGorilla in ".NET Reflector Pro is awesome"

AGorilla — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:46:57 +0000

I had a coworker once that used a library of his in all of the company's main applications but kept it out of source control. If you ever asked to see the code, he would say "what do you need, I'll do it for you?" One day after chasing a bug for hours, I begged him to allow me to see the code and he refused. I calmly walked back to my desk and Reflectored it and found the bug in less than 10 minutes.

New comment by AGorilla in "Can't start a business only eating a Tombstone pizza every day"

AGorilla — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:03:57 +0000

Is there any more delicious metaphor for a dead ambition than Tombstone pizza?

New comment by AGorilla in "Magic Mouse helps Apple double share of market in 8 weeks"

AGorilla — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:46:05 +0000

This headline is deceiving, Apple doubled their share of the MOUSE market in 8 weeks

New comment by AGorilla in "How's My Code? A simple, lightweight code review tool for distributed teams."

AGorilla — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:59:26 +0000

Holy shit, the guy in the screencast has over 18000 unread messages in his gmail inbox!

New comment by AGorilla in "Programmer who worked for Bernard Madoff is arrested by FBI"

AGorilla — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:54:57 +0000

They (allegedly) programmed a computer to generate false records. It's not like they created a trading model that happened to break an esoteric SEC law, it was probably pretty darn clear to these programmers that they were doing something illegal.

New comment by AGorilla in "I think I’m tired of Desktop Linux"

AGorilla — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:59:52 +0000

If you had read the article, you would know that he was comparing the user experience of Skype in Ubuntu on a Thinkpad to Skype in Mac OS X. This sort of blame-the-user mentality is what's really holding back Linux on the desktop.

New comment by AGorilla in "How to Read Other People's Code -- And Why"

AGorilla — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:36:12 +0000

Not to mention the side effects of breaking code you don't understand at random points.

New comment by AGorilla in "Grand Prize Awarded To BellKor Pragmatic Chaos"

AGorilla — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:42:49 +0000

This is great and all, but it still thinks I'll love Once: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0907657/

New comment by AGorilla in "Developing a Process for Visualizing the Insanity"

AGorilla — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:44:52 +0000

Did JetBlue's CEO meet with you today?