Hacker News: goodweeds

New comment by goodweeds in "Former Facebooker Scoops Up $1.4 Million for Freshplum (YC S11)"

goodweeds — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:19:22 +0000

Man this guy's writing style is incredibly unclear and annoying.

'Master growers' cultivating a higher grade of marijuana

goodweeds — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:10:02 +0000

Article URL: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0325-marijuana-masters-20120325,0,3385996.story

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3753287

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by goodweeds in "Learn Regex The Hard Way"

goodweeds — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:57:55 +0000

I never liked the O'Reilly approach. At one point I had read 20 of their books and never felt like I learned anything. Some people can learn from references, but I really prefer Zed's "hard way" method which feels a lot like the Programmed Learning methodlogy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmed_learning).

New comment by goodweeds in "Convore Shutting Down"

goodweeds — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:29:15 +0000

Late last year I was in an incubator where Convore started. There were 2 other companies doing the same exact thing .. All of the YC companies were using HipChat, Convore seemed like "yet another copycat site to sign up for an account with". Chat is a solved problem. Let's move on.

New comment by goodweeds in "Garry's SF Guide to Where Your Startup Should Be"

goodweeds — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:21:21 +0000

Downtown Oakland was sadly ignored. The nice side of Lake Merritt, as well as downtown and Jack London Square are generally overlooked. Maybe that's a good thing for my rent. I pay $1900 for an 1100 ft^2 2br/2bath right next to jack london square, with a pool, a hot tub, and soon with a 100mbps synchronous connection that will cost $45/month. BART is 4 blocks away and door to door I'm downtown in 30 minutes. I'm looking at downtown office space now and it's incredibly cheap, plus the business taxes are a lot cheaper.

The food scene isn't as great as Berkeley, but rent is 30% cheaper, and there are far fewer yuppy moms walking around with kids in strollers, which makes me happy. There has been a pretty solid core of hackers moving here in the past two years, generally people like me in our early '30s who have been in SF for a decade+ and have finally stopped drinking the "San Francisco is worth $4k for a 750 ft^2 apartment" koolaid.

New comment by goodweeds in "Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted?"

goodweeds — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:09:02 +0000

It's hearsay, but a friend of mine who was there last year told me a pretty frightening story about how one of their engineers harassed and stalked my friend's co-worker for the duration of the conference. (word to the wise, women should never put their cell phone number on the business cards they hand out at conference filled with drunk, horny nerds)

New comment by goodweeds in "Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted?"

goodweeds — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:37:04 +0000

Apples an oranges here. Linode kind of sucks, their performance is good but their pricing is whack and they're not really elastic .. a 1/2 month credit when you power down an instance is pretty lame. I won't do business with those guys after their behavior at hostingcon this year.

As to RackSpace I don't trust any tech company who has a 7:1 sales rep to engineer ratio. They are overpriced in all of their services, especially their managed dedicated servers (seriously, why does it take a week to have a server installed? it takes a week because they literally have a guy go out and image servers by hand. do you really want to wage your company's future on that sort of incompetence? I don't)

New comment by goodweeds in "Yelp advertising is a rip-off for small advertisers"

goodweeds — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:47:26 +0000

The main reason to advertise on Yelp is extortion. If you don't pay Yelp their extortion fees, they only allow a small number of reviews for your business, and even worse, their algorithms pushes the negative reviews to the top. One of my friends' businesses currently has 200 "filtered" reviews and 19 posted reviews which in itself makes his business look incredibly shady (sure, he runs a dispensary, so he might be shady, but that's besides the point).

New comment by goodweeds in ""They're Made out of Meat?" Short first contact sci-fi story"

goodweeds — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:42:15 +0000

The video of this is often linked when people use the term "Meat Cloud" to describe tech companies who throw bodies at problems instead of process and automation.

New comment by goodweeds in "Yale Discovers a Fungus That Eats Plastic "

goodweeds — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:38:00 +0000

There was an article about something similar on Slashdot a decade ago about CD/DVD-eating fungi.

http://science.slashdot.org/story/01/06/18/1317218/cd-eating...

New comment by goodweeds in "My U.S. Border Nightmare"

goodweeds — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:44:59 +0000

Huh? I thought Virgin America canceled their routes between SFO and YYZ a year ago?

Courtney Love Explains the Basics of BGP

goodweeds — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:12:43 +0000

Article URL: http://www.routergod.com/?p=40

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3483860

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Zappos Says Hackers May Have Accessed Customer Account Details

goodweeds — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:47:17 +0000

Article URL: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/zappos-says-hackers-may-have-accessed-customer-account-details/?hp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3471622

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Viruses stole City College of S.F. data for years

goodweeds — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:42:23 +0000

Article URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/12/MN4Q1MO9JK.DTL#ixzz1jLyZ5NB7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3465079

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Legality of a Jan 18 SOPA blackout on Google?

goodweeds — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:46:31 +0000

I heard some people at a coffee shop today discussing the possibility of convincing facebook and google to shut down all of their services for a day because of SOPA, including google apps. While the anarchist in me was momentarily giddy at the whole idea, the realist makes me assume that there must be SLAs and service contracts for their commercial customers and their larger content providers and advertising partners. As awesome as it would be for Google to shut down everything and confuse the heck out of the world I'm sure the losses due to lawsuits and SLA fines would be massive.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3454957

Points: 25

# Comments: 30

New comment by goodweeds in ""Ender's Game" movie happening"

goodweeds — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:04:44 +0000

I received this email from Hattrack today:

Want to Be in Battle School? Open Casting Call for Extras in New Orleans This Weekend

Ender's Game open casting call being held at the Hilton Garden Inn located in the Warehouse District of New Orleans on Saturday, January 14th from 11am to 3pm.

Alexis Allen, along with Batherson Casting, are seeking bright and talented kids and teens ages 10-17 of varying ethnic background for the feature film production of Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game"; based on one of the most famous science fiction novels of the last 40 years.

The film stars Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld and Abigail Breslin. Oscar-winning Director Gavin Hood will be filming Ender's Game in New Orleans from February until June 2012, providing those selected with up to 8 weeks of work.

To be considered, please come to the open call this weekend, located at the address below between 10am and 2pm

Hilton Garden Inn 1001 South Peters St New Orleans 70130

Please also bring a recent snapshot of yourself. Homeschooled students are especially encouraged, because of the work during school hours.

Please visit this site at www.hatrack.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.hatrack.com>www.hatrack.com;

New comment by goodweeds in "Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?"

goodweeds — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:59:08 +0000

Yes because a lot of wealthy people visit Hacker News. Angels, VCs, startup founders, hackers who had good exits, etc. If politics are owned by wealthy corporations and individuals, then let's throw some money against SOPA.

New comment by goodweeds in "Victorinox squeezes 1TB of high-speed storage into a Swiss Army Knife"

goodweeds — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:18:16 +0000

I had a pair of nail clippers confiscated entering IAD a few years ago. Just inside the security terminal was the convenience store where i had purchased that set of nail clippers, so I purchased a new set and took them on the plane.

New comment by goodweeds in "How France’s Free will reinvent mobile"

goodweeds — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:16:02 +0000

Sounds somewhat like a rip-off of republicwireless.com

New comment by goodweeds in "Buy (and rent) vs buy: a hacker's view on housing"

goodweeds — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:41:11 +0000

I've spent the past 4 months obsessively browsing craigslist. This summer I moved out of an apartment (non rent-controlled) because my rent was increased from $2850 to $4,150. http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/apa/sfc?query=&srchTy... is a search of 2br apartments in the city of san francisco, all neighborhoods. It returns 253 listings. Raising that to 3000 -> 4000 gives you 265 listings.

If I exclude the neighborhoods where I wouldn't live due to distance, safety, or a dislike of feeling like I'm in the burbs (bayview, excelsior, ingleside, north beach (fuck tourists), portola, richmond/seacliff, sunset, tenderloin) treasure island) then those searches (http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/apa/sfc?query=&srchTy...) drop down to 106 and 184 apartments, respectively.

The competition for apartments is fierce right now due to a combination lack of credit keeping people leasing rather than owning, and the current tech bubble having imported 10s of thousands of new dot-commies happy to spend 50% of their salaries on housing, because they're young and stupid.

If you make under $150k, are fiscally conservative and don't want to live with roommates, then you're priced out of San Francisco.