Hacker News: fizzbar

New comment by fizzbar in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

fizzbar — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:17:22 +0000

Top performers manufacture 33% more hours in the day thanks to this one weird trick!

New comment by fizzbar in "Effortless personal productivity (or how I learned to love my monkey mind)"

fizzbar — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 20:08:01 +0000

thank you for sharing such a detailed and simple workflow!

New comment by fizzbar in "Twitter CFO Anthony Noto Privately Analyzes Facebook"

fizzbar — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 01:55:50 +0000

It was so painful to read that I had to give up, but from experience this isn't particularly rare; these dudes are typically so busy that they're hammering out missives like this as quickly as possible, no time to proof read or grammar check. Speed of response and communicating the core concepts is paramount.

New comment by fizzbar in "Facebook Rooms"

fizzbar — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:32:41 +0000

Like the roaring successes of Home, Paper, and whatever that Snapchat clone thing was...?

New comment by fizzbar in "Google Launches Cloud Platform for Startups"

fizzbar — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:05:01 +0000

Please enlighten us then, what CPU mined crypto currency is best for this?

New comment by fizzbar in "Why Yahoo Keeps Killing Everything It Buys"

fizzbar — Thu, 15 May 2014 13:43:28 +0000

What arbitrage game are you speaking of?

New comment by fizzbar in "WhatsApplebee's: the premiere Applebee's-based social chat app"

fizzbar — Fri, 09 May 2014 15:15:40 +0000

Awesome, hope it blows up. Perhaps this should be what season 2 of Silicon Valley is about.

The only thing more awesome than this is the fact that the author's last name is freaking LAZER-WALKER.

New comment by fizzbar in "Dear Internet: Let’s Demo The Slow Lane"

fizzbar — Wed, 07 May 2014 15:10:26 +0000

No difference. QoS can/will be used to implement the slow lane, that's all.

New comment by fizzbar in "The Case Against ISP Tolls"

fizzbar — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 21:23:48 +0000

This is what you are advocating for: http://www.willchatham.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/net.pn...

New comment by fizzbar in "The Case Against ISP Tolls"

fizzbar — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 21:22:31 +0000

This image http://www.willchatham.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/net.pn... has been making the rounds on reddit, surprised it hasn't appeared here yet. This is the most visceral/succinct explanation of the consequences of allowing the ISPs to have a "fast lane"...

New comment by fizzbar in "Oculus Says They Didn't Expect Such Negative Reactions to Selling to Facebook"

fizzbar — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:20:23 +0000

I don't think FB is dumb, but I do fear that they are highly amoral with respect to personal privacy... And a VR screen glued to your face is getting pretty damn personal. I feel uneasy about a guy who calls his users "dumb fucks" for trusting him to be in charge of that.

New comment by fizzbar in "Oculus Says They Didn't Expect Such Negative Reactions to Selling to Facebook"

fizzbar — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:17:21 +0000

aka Flipboard by Facebook?

New comment by fizzbar in "Project Tango"

fizzbar — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 22:54:58 +0000

If those are just the ads, what are the movies? Holodecks?

New comment by fizzbar in "StackMob is shutting down"

fizzbar — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 05:14:32 +0000

I'm all about the Couch/Pouch ecosystem. :)

New comment by fizzbar in "John Yudkin: the man who tried to warn us about sugar"

fizzbar — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 05:12:34 +0000

He's commenting on the fact that large populations of humanity (pretty much all of Asia and Oceania) subsist on high carb diets -- lots of rice and bananas -- yet don't exhibit massive rates of heart disease etc.

New comment by fizzbar in "StackMob is shutting down"

fizzbar — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 01:47:27 +0000

> (except for the bugs they've been having the past week which don't allow us to create new columns or deploy)

thanks for reminding me why i'll never outsource my app's primary datastore. 'tis a bridge too far.

New comment by fizzbar in "Chromebox, now for simpler and better meetings"

fizzbar — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 16:28:52 +0000

Huh. Can anyone think of why this isn't going to totally dominate the videoconference space in a few years? Cheaper + works better == huge win, no?

New comment by fizzbar in "Getting to No: The Key to Startup Selling"

fizzbar — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 06:09:25 +0000

It's broken in Chrome. Use Firefox to view.

New comment by fizzbar in "How To Become Uber Productive While Working For Yourself"

fizzbar — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:56:26 +0000

Maybe, but 99% of the time it's because the proprietors can't pay their bills when people occupy their limited seating area for hours and hours on end without spending any money. Take the hint and find a Starbucks.

New comment by fizzbar in "How To Become Uber Productive While Working For Yourself"

fizzbar — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 23:52:23 +0000

> The café that has the A/C pushed to arctic temperatures when you're in shorts and sandals in the summer. The café that is freezing cold in the middle of winter.

This is done very much on purpose to subtly (passive-aggressively?) discourage people from camping out and using their coffee shops as offices.