Hacker News: commanda

New comment by commanda in "The Hypocrisy Of Sam Yagan and OkCupid "

commanda — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 19:08:10 +0000

It really irks me when people conflate calling for someone to step down from a CEO role with "lynching", "blood", or "militant". As you know, actual LGBTQ people are actually lynched, and our blood is actually shed. Your metaphors are, frankly, offensive.

(disclosure: I am also a member of the LGBTQ community.)

New comment by commanda in "Value is created by doing"

commanda — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 01:47:12 +0000

I don't believe money is 1:1 with value. Consider for example a "Craigslist Flipper" - someone who finds items for sale on Craigslist, buys them, and turns around and sells them for a profit. Did this person create value? Not at all; I would argue they created negative wealth in the world. See also: people who run window installation companies and go around breaking people's windows at night.

New comment by commanda in "Value is created by doing"

commanda — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 01:41:34 +0000

This definition of value ignores ancillary departments such as marketing, office management, HR, and legal. These are sometimes known as "cost centers" in a business organization, but in that they support the engineers/artists/makers, they most definitely are creating value. Sometimes the chain can be long, but it's usually present.

New comment by commanda in "Horse_ebooks Is Human After All"

commanda — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:34:30 +0000

Ha! That's great, thanks! I had a feeling Jacob Harris was behind that, as he was also behind @nytimes_ebooks.

New comment by commanda in "Horse_ebooks Is Human After All"

commanda — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:56:45 +0000

@Horse_ebooks is (was?) an excellent piece of performance art. I think the modern audience still has a sense of wonderment when it comes to the computer-generated (as though it is the computer itself doing the generating and not really the programmer who wrote the algorithm). People were willing to believe that "computers" were at the point where they could create consistently hilarious phrases, and are disappointed (and even outraged) today when they find that we're not there yet. The artists have imparted the audience with a sense of disillusionment. Perhaps we'll see more art in this style in the future, although part of (or all of) the magic seems to be in the audience's belief that there was no human intelligence behind the content, so perhaps this isn't duplicatable. If only I could set this experience to a Kraftwerk soundtrack, and maybe play Bladerunner on a screen in the corner.

I can't wait to see what this group comes up with next!

New comment by commanda in "The Dark Side Of Software Development That No One Talks About"

commanda — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 20:22:16 +0000

The underlying theme in this post, from what I gather, is "Male programmers are often treated poorly by their peers, so female programmers should have nothing to complain about when they are treated poorly."

This is denial of the very real sexism in our industry.

New comment by commanda in "Loneliness Is Deadly"

commanda — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 22:18:39 +0000

For what it's worth, Gloria Steinem did not marry until she was 66 years old.

New comment by commanda in "Uber for Everything"

commanda — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:17:55 +0000

That's a different use case. Computer owners usually use their computers every single day for multiple hours, while drill owners, unless they are professionals or hobbyists in construction, use them very rarely, maybe once or twice a year.

New comment by commanda in "Uber for Everything"

commanda — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:14:24 +0000

Perhaps because ideas are a dime-a-dozen, but not every idea-haver has the time, energy, desire, or capital necessary for execution. Perhaps someone else will come along and run with this idea. I think sharing startup ideas aloud in blog posts is wonderful for this reason.

New comment by commanda in "An Awkward Conversation"

commanda — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 21:34:10 +0000

If technical recruiters did actually have technical experience, they could make much more money being programmers rather than working as recruiters. Therefor, there are few to no technically experienced recruiters. This isn't a problem that's going to fix itself, unless companies start valuing recruiters by paying the good ones a lot more. Clearly, this isn't happening widely, if at all. So instead of bitching about bad recruiters, startup founders could put their money where their mouths are and hire technically experienced people to recruit for them.

New comment by commanda in "Global warming caused by chlorofluorocarbons, not carbon dioxide, new study says"

commanda — Fri, 31 May 2013 03:38:34 +0000

Ok, sorry, I meant carbon particulate (soot), not CO2.

New comment by commanda in "Global warming caused by chlorofluorocarbons, not carbon dioxide, new study says"

commanda — Fri, 31 May 2013 01:54:01 +0000

This article doesn't address the CFC effect relative to the effect of CO2 emissions fallout landing on the glaciers and polar ice caps, which changes the albedo of the ice, resulting in melting them. More and more ice melts every year, and less re-freezes, raising the sea level, altering the salinity, changing the worldwide currents, resulting in massive change to the ocean biomes. Does that result in less climate change than CFCs eroding the ozone layer over the poles?

New comment by commanda in "Global warming caused by chlorofluorocarbons, not carbon dioxide, new study says"

commanda — Fri, 31 May 2013 01:46:40 +0000

Right, but petrol-fueled cars will still emit CO2 regardless of whether the local power plant uses clean energy or not.

New comment by commanda in "[dead]"

commanda — Tue, 07 May 2013 21:13:40 +0000

The OP sounds like an angry curmudgeon. He/she can't cut someone some slack if they're running a few minutes late? I'm glad I've never had to take a meeting with this person. This isn't about whether or not someone is disciplined enough to get enough sleep - this is about OP's rigid inflexibility. Things happen - your child has a tantrum at breakfast and spills something on you, your car has a flat, your cat dies. If life's inconveniences are too much for OP, he/she should consider working solo.

New comment by commanda in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2013)"

commanda — Wed, 01 May 2013 15:06:10 +0000

SEEKING FREELANCER

My current client is looking for Unity developer with at least one published title. Remote is fine. This client is in NYC. Email me and I'll connect you.

New comment by commanda in "If this were a pill, you’d do anything to get it"

commanda — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:58:19 +0000

It seems to me that health insurers are already aligned with the goal of keeping patients from receiving care for acute conditions, so perhaps some of them, being private companies, unencumbered by special interests or government bureaucracy, will adopt systems like the one outlined in this article. Maybe that's a cynical outlook, but since it has been demonstrated that hospitals, being for-profit, are tragically misaligned with maintaining patients' wellness.

New comment by commanda in "My Code made it to a Hollywood Movie"

commanda — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:34:55 +0000

I find it amazing that somebody actually knew OP's code well enough to recognize it in the trailer. Or maybe someone searched github for the strings they saw instead? Either way, pretty cool - I'd love to have some code in a movie too!

New comment by commanda in "Facebook knows you’re gay before you do"

commanda — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:43:26 +0000

The article title is inaccurate - "Matt" did know he was gay, he just wasn't out yet. Facebook's ad platform didn't figure it out before he did. Just as in the Target story, the young woman knew she was pregnant, she just hadn't told her father.

The fear mongering is a little high in this article. However, we should stop and think: why is it so scary for others to potentially know that we're gay? Or pregnant? Neither of these is a shameful state.

New comment by commanda in "I’m done with the web"

commanda — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:05:26 +0000

I'm not a web developer, so maybe I just don't understand, but why is it so important to the author that there be wide adoption of Cappuccino? Why does it matter to him that the majority of the web dev community is favoring "micro JS"? Why does he care that other web devs don't want to take a day to learn ObjJ? Why would he leave a path he's so passionate about just because other devs aren't being good software engineers?

New comment by commanda in "The PyCon Incident"

commanda — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:55:25 +0000

Why are you anonymously using Pastebin? I'd prefer if you posted it on your own blog with your own name.