Hacker News: foonamefoo

New comment by foonamefoo in "The Music Industry’s New Extortion Scheme"

foonamefoo — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:27:44 +0000

So the buyer donates to his friend, and his friend donates to him, and effectively no one ends up paying the computer tax.

New comment by foonamefoo in "You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss: The Cliffs Notes"

foonamefoo — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:10:20 +0000

Doesn't that completely validate the way in which I used Chomsky? I wasn't being negative.

New comment by foonamefoo in "Python: Bitwise NOT and List "

foonamefoo — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:05:11 +0000

your humor detection may be broken.

New comment by foonamefoo in "Python: Bitwise NOT and List "

foonamefoo — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:04:19 +0000

That wouldn't matter since we are talking about python, not assembly or C.

New comment by foonamefoo in "Star halfway across the universe was visible to naked eye for 30 secs on Wednesday"

foonamefoo — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:07:59 +0000

It is impossible to know what is outside of our lightcone.

New comment by foonamefoo in "Hack a meal in 10 minutes or less. No ramen allowed"

foonamefoo — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 03:54:45 +0000

The laughter is coming from the size implied by "cedar plank".

New comment by foonamefoo in "You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss: The Cliffs Notes"

foonamefoo — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 03:51:55 +0000

I would say that you have much more creative freedom as a tenured professor (if getting to that point hasn't completely destroyed your spirit) than as a startup founder. Look at some of the stuff Noam Chomsky has been able to devote almost all of his time to--it sure isn't linguistics.

New comment by foonamefoo in "You weren't meant to have a boss"

foonamefoo — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:24:20 +0000

You also just described the major problem with the government artificially allowing such a thing as a limited liability (I'm talking about legal, not debt) corporation.

New comment by foonamefoo in "A laser experiment to show the Uncertainty Principle [video]"

foonamefoo — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:38:15 +0000

As the slit gets smaller the percentage of photons that are bouncing off of the walls of the slit as compared to the percentage that goes through directly raises.

New comment by foonamefoo in "Ask YC: Salary vs. Hourly for the Startup"

foonamefoo — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:33:49 +0000

I find this interesting because I actually had a friend who worked the night shift there one summer in college (around 4 years ago). He was paid hourly.

New comment by foonamefoo in "Standing Still Predicts School Success Better Than IQ"

foonamefoo — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:17:25 +0000

I don't see all the mystery: people no longer beat their kids to the extent that they did 60 years ago. Maybe if they made the request as part of a game instead of as an order from an adult there would be more validity (but you can't go back in time to the '40s to make them change the experiment as well).

New comment by foonamefoo in "Ask YC: What are the command line tools you can't live without?"

foonamefoo — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:31:34 +0000

gnome-open for gnome users

New comment by foonamefoo in "Guy Kawasaki launches Alltop, an "online magazine rack""

foonamefoo — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:50:16 +0000

Oh I don't know, maybe abstain from having an SEO category right on the front page?

New comment by foonamefoo in "New Internet Meme - Zuckerbucks"

foonamefoo — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:37:27 +0000

Since the stake in Facebook was sold as part of a conditional advertising agreement, it shouldn't count as a "closing price".

New comment by foonamefoo in "Ask YC: What do you do if American economy enters a downturn?"

foonamefoo — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:23:27 +0000

>First, the [...]

It has reversed before, why does it seem unlikely now?

New comment by foonamefoo in "Little Known Hacker News Is My First Read Every Morning"

foonamefoo — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:33:33 +0000

Yawn yawn yawn yawn yawn.

New comment by foonamefoo in "Hacker News Site Guidelines"

foonamefoo — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:24:55 +0000

He was talking about things like the YC summer/winter application forms, not the moderation system.

New comment by foonamefoo in "The world's 50 most powerful blogs"

foonamefoo — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:17:56 +0000

Lew Rockwell did a lot more to kill attention seeing as he was outed as the ghost-author of the [person we aren't allowed to talk about here]'s controversial newsletters.

New comment by foonamefoo in "Journalist becomes the story at Mark Zuckerberg SXSWi keynote"

foonamefoo — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:14:28 +0000

Is this Hacker News or Valley Wag?

New comment by foonamefoo in "A keyboard without keys - Dasher"

foonamefoo — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:33:21 +0000

I actually read "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" a while back and all I could think the whole time was "binary search, binary search, huffman tree, something other than linear search please god".