Hacker News: TFrancis

New comment by TFrancis in "GitHub, fuck your name change"

TFrancis — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 13:07:25 +0000

Why can't you remember any voting during the primaries?

New comment by TFrancis in "Taste test: Wal-Mart vs. Whole Foods produce"

TFrancis — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:13:57 +0000

I never buy meat at Wal-mart. They don't have any local butchers. The story I heard was that one store's meat cutters were attempting to unionize so Wal-mart fired all of it's meat cutters nationwide and consolidated it's meat cutting and now ships cuts of meat to individual stores.

Maybe it's because I live in the Midwest United States but, I like knowing there's a professional handling meat and someone I can speak with if I need a special cut or something that's not available.

GWT 2.0

TFrancis — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:31:09 +0000

Article URL: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/ReleaseNotes.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=988457

Points: 52

# Comments: 33

New comment by TFrancis in "End of an Era: Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts Down"

TFrancis — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:45:41 +0000

It has other uses like verifying file integrity.

New comment by TFrancis in "Google SPDY Protocol Would Require Mass Change in Infrastructure"

TFrancis — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:28:28 +0000

Right. It's almost as if F5 forgot that the infrastructure isn't a means to it's own end for application owners.

New comment by TFrancis in "Schneier on Security: A Useful Side-Effect of Misplaced Fear"

TFrancis — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:07:00 +0000

"The fake bogeyman lets people avoid talking about the real issues."

Oh good. I'm glad we can avoid addressing who we actually are and can instead continue pretending the world works the way we like. Don't get me wrong. I think the science (there is a hypothesis) is interesting I just think honestly discussing these kind of issues is a much better way of dealing with the real dangers.

New comment by TFrancis in "Semmelweis reflex"

TFrancis — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:15:47 +0000

Make sure to read up on Robert Anton Wilson, the guy who defined it as such. His books are especially enlightening. Prometheus Rising and Quantum Psychology are my favorites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson

New comment by TFrancis in "Excuse Me, But Where Did Google's Organic Search Results Go?"

TFrancis — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:13:14 +0000

Wow, AdBlock makes Google better. I didn't know this was going on.

Apple rejects iSinglePayer iPhone App

TFrancis — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:40:17 +0000

Article URL: http://lambdajive.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/isinglepayer-iphone-app-censored-by-apple/?preview=true&preview_id=29&preview_nonce=94ad9174dd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=847459

Points: 24

# Comments: 35

New comment by TFrancis in "In a recession, is college worth it? Fear of debt changes plans"

TFrancis — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:22:12 +0000

What if higher education were free?

New comment by TFrancis in "Eulogy to _why"

TFrancis — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:17:35 +0000

Practicing yoga is the only requirement to be a yogi. Hacking is much the same way. We all share similar goals but our practices are always intensely personal. If you're practiced enough you know that what you consider important and what you consider progress continuously changes. Thus we don't judge someone else or their practice but appreciate the opportunity to practice with them. Without question both Zed Shaw and _why have hacked. I think it's important to appreciate many qualities of both without needing to apply labels to either.

Namaste

New comment by TFrancis in "On those "Entitled" Twenty-Somethings"

TFrancis — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:46:40 +0000

Whoa whoa... The solvency issues of Social Security are primarily due to the Government of my parents "borrowing" money from the system that they paid into it. There are of course the exacerbating burden of of longer life expectancy that they have failed to address as well. I believe it was Al Gore who spoke about the idea of a "lock-box."

All this and generations want to call me entitled? Look you spent the money you were supposed to save. I can appreciate the social programs that result (I'm a bleeding heart) but, don't shit every where and then blame my generation for stepping in it.

New comment by TFrancis in "Why is there still a registry in Windows 7?"

TFrancis — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:13:23 +0000

How about using GUID as another namespace on top of registry's key value?

New comment by TFrancis in "Why is there still a registry in Windows 7?"

TFrancis — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:07:04 +0000

Start with Wubi http://wubi-installer.org/

New comment by TFrancis in "YouTube Myth Busting"

TFrancis — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:56:08 +0000

I think that the benefits of price (free) and availability (theater comes to you) are only likely to increase movies watched via YouTube. Once a movie does have 165M page views in an opening weekend (and one will), which will be a better measure of movie performance: the box office or Google?

New comment by TFrancis in "Poll: Do you smoke marijuana?"

TFrancis — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:55:15 +0000

I like Bill Hicks take on Marijuana: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSH6ofHbeUw

New comment by TFrancis in "Look at me, I'm skinny"

TFrancis — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:02:36 +0000

Hmm...I think eating five or six times a day is generally considered good advice because it assumes you've selected food that are whole grain/have a low glycemic index so that your insulin levels remain level throughout the day.

New comment by TFrancis in "Python SimpleDB Library"

TFrancis — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:29:28 +0000

I haven't had a chance to use this library but I have used boto: http://code.google.com/p/boto/wiki/SimpleDbIntro I had some unicode issues the last time I used it and since replaced SimpleDB with something else.

New comment by TFrancis in "[dead]"

TFrancis — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:51:31 +0000

I'll post the same comment here as I did at the article:

Excusing reporting sources (newspaper or otherwise) from taxes isn't the right thing to do. Non-profit organizations are already gearing up and filling the void that for-profit organizations will leave. I look squarely at NPR and PBS. Maybe the print writers should seek to create something as well known and respected as these organizations. They would be tax free and have more respect.

New comment by TFrancis in "Don’t! The secret of self-control"

TFrancis — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:06:16 +0000

Agreed. Additionally, I found meditation was useful for increasing my self-control. Many types of yoga are focused on meditative practices but not all. I think these are just mind tricks (hacks?) and this jives with the research the article presented.