Hacker News: crispytx

New comment by crispytx in "The Cult of Homework"

crispytx — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 10:50:37 +0000

I don't think the article mentioned this, but one of the big reasons behind all of this homework is the personality of the people dolling out the homework: Conscientious people can't stand not being busy. So they try to do everyone else a favor by loading them up with lots of busy work. The only problem with that is not everyone is conscientious and in constant need of busy work.

New comment by crispytx in "The Cult of Homework"

crispytx — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 10:47:46 +0000

I had the most homework in Middle School and Graduate School. Not sure why exactly, just something strange that I noticed. Ended up dropping out of Grad School over the excessive busy work. Turned out to be an excellent decision!

New comment by crispytx in "YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “flying motorcycle”"

crispytx — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 04:20:47 +0000

Founder of WingsuitGP here, take a look at my application YC!

New comment by crispytx in "Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?"

crispytx — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 04:58:46 +0000

NordVPN

New comment by crispytx in "Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting outcomes"

crispytx — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 21:13:20 +0000

I took a technical interview today over the phone, and you know what, they were pretty fair with their questions. I don't know what kind of competition I'm up against for the position, but very fair questions.

New comment by crispytx in "Y Combinator’s latest batch of startups is too big for one Demo Day stage"

crispytx — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 03:55:35 +0000

Just change the name to "Demo Week." Problem solved.

New comment by crispytx in "Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google search engine"

crispytx — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 20:06:58 +0000

I use to be an Altavista user. In Middle School one of my teachers showed us Google in the computer lab and I've been using it ever since. What I remember standing out at the time was Google's UI; it was just a logo, a text input, and two buttons. I thought that was neat and just kept using it after that. The search results may have been better, but that wasn't why I made the switch.

New comment by crispytx in "Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every post in the timeline"

crispytx — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 20:41:23 +0000

I got downvoted big time the other day for a very similar comment to this, but it needs to be said: People that complain about ads have obviously never had anything that they needed to advertise.

New comment by crispytx in "Many popular iPhone apps are recording user sessions without asking"

crispytx — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 03:12:05 +0000

People that complain about this stuff obviously have never launched an app before. If you don't record what people are doing with your app, then you're not going to have any idea if anyone is actually using it, or if it is any good, or if there is anything you need to fix.

New comment by crispytx in "Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation"

crispytx — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 20:16:56 +0000

They've really fixed the effectiveness of their ads with the site redesign, so maybe the increased valuation is worth it. Not really something end consumers notice, but as an advertiser I definitely have.

New comment by crispytx in "Ask HN: Why can’t I block all incoming calls that aren’t in my contact list?"

crispytx — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 06:51:11 +0000

Hey Tones411, I actually created an app that does this for Android called RoboStop. Check it out! Unfortunately Google will be removing the app from the Play Store on March 9th due to increased restrictions regarding access to user's data (call logs), but I plan on moving the app over to RoboStop.org in about a month from now.

New comment by crispytx in "My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through Wag"

crispytx — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 05:12:58 +0000

That's the problem with lawyers and administrators. Wag should have just ignored their lawyers and did the right thing. It's pretty easy to see what happened here, the executives/administrators/lawyers at Wag are cowards, and were too afraid to compensate these poor people without some sort of legal agreement covering their asses.

New comment by crispytx in "NES.css: 8-bit style CSS framework"

crispytx — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 03:03:38 +0000

Totally going to use this on the PhaserJS project I'm doing for work!

New comment by crispytx in "Two creators are not always better than one"

crispytx — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 19:21:40 +0000

This. I hate hearing all this co-founder stuff all the time. While I'm sure it works for some people, I've found the whole co-founder thing to be a terrible idea. The only positive benefit I've found is having someone to talk to about what you're working on, but I haven't found co-founders to be helpful other than that in the cheerleader department.

New comment by crispytx in "Two creators are not always better than one"

crispytx — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 19:18:37 +0000

The reason YC is always talking about finding co-founders is because Paul Graham had co-founders. Had Paul Graham gone at things alone, YC would probably be preaching the virtues of flying solo.

New comment by crispytx in "Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People"

crispytx — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:25:29 +0000

Had to comment on this because I'm insane.

New comment by crispytx in "Ask HN: How to found a company as a single founder?"

crispytx — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 20:12:11 +0000

If you know how to program, don't force the cofounder thing. It's really easy to end up bringing on shitty cofounders. Look at Facebook and SnapChat. In my experience it's typical to end up bringing on an Eduardo, a Winklevoss twin, or a Reggie Brown, then you have to get rid of them because they suck and literally aren't capable of contributing anything.

New comment by crispytx in "Ditching Medium"

crispytx — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 02:24:43 +0000

I moved my old blog to a new domain name recently, and wasn't able to keep using Medium because they no longer support custom domains. So now I'm using WordPress for my blogging software and also using their hosting as well. That's too bad for Medium, because Medium's blogging software is superior in my opinion. They've just made a few boneheaded mistakes. My theory is that Ev Williams wants to create the next Twitter, and that's the reason behind his poor decisions. Williams should have just worried about creating the best blogging software and blog hosting solution and things would have kept humming along just fine. Greed can make people do silly things.

Ev, if you happen to read this: 1) bring back custom domains. 2) start charging a monthly fee for hosting custom domains like WordPress does 3) Create a native advertising service that publishes promoted stories into the main Medium.com story feed.

New comment by crispytx in "Verizon signals its Yahoo and AOL divisions are almost worthless"

crispytx — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 19:18:09 +0000

My Dad recently switched his email from Verizon to Yahoo. I plead with him to use Gmail but he didn't listen. Baby Boomers love Yahoo!

New comment by crispytx in "Uber Joins Lyft in Race to Tap Investors"

crispytx — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 03:39:18 +0000

This man speaks the truth right here!