Hacker News: grourk

Dropcam CEO's Beef with Brogramming, Late Nights, and Free Dinners

grourk — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:17:16 +0000

Article URL: http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2013/04/23/dropcam-ceos-beef-with-brogramming-late-nights-and-free-dinners/?single_page=true

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5599062

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New comment by grourk in "DNC just open-sourced their voter registration platform"

grourk — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 23:55:03 +0000

Perfect handle.

New comment by grourk in "The busy trap"

grourk — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:44:47 +0000

That's not the point. Are you too busy to read the whole post?

New comment by grourk in "Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost"

grourk — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:21:57 +0000

How do you know when someone has deleted their Facebook account?

They'll tell you.

New comment by grourk in "Amazon EC2 and RDS in US-EAST zone down"

grourk — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:24:30 +0000

Your us-east-1b might be my us-east-1a.

New comment by grourk in "Where has all the money in the world gone?"

grourk — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 05:20:44 +0000

Huh?

I've learned a bit about money, and this comment strikes me as conspiracy theory having nothing to do with "how money really works".

New comment by grourk in "Heroku Isn't for Idiots: developer time and comparative advantage"

grourk — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 05:25:09 +0000

AWS provides this now with VPC.

New comment by grourk in "Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism"

grourk — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 07:26:44 +0000

Oh, it wasn't funny? My mistake. Thanks for letting me know.

New comment by grourk in "Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism"

grourk — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 03:39:38 +0000

Which part is ironic? That I upvoted a joke I found funny, even if was mocking me? Or that I upvoted a comment from a person who disagrees with me?

New comment by grourk in "Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism"

grourk — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 20:12:26 +0000

I upvoted you before you added the second paragraph because I thought your joke was funny. "But your equivocation between silencing other viewpoints and eliminating unhealthy voices is not useful." Why not? I was making the point that it's often not easy to tell the difference.

New comment by grourk in "Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism"

grourk — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 19:50:35 +0000

The problem is you might identify as "fool" someone who simply doesn't agree with you or the established groupthink. Re-read the first few paragraphs and replace the word "fool" with "person who doesn't agree with you" -- now it says something very different.

New comment by grourk in "Mark Zuckerberg sells 30.2 million shares of $FB common stock at $37.58"

grourk — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:48:08 +0000

Were you actually confused and thought he meant "loose"?

New comment by grourk in "Being Shy Is Just a Bad Habit, and You Can Break It With Regular Practice"

grourk — Sat, 12 May 2012 20:16:31 +0000

"Some people say shyness is like gayness, something your born with. I haven't observed that to be the case, not that I've researched it."

It actually is the case, for those who have researched it. Simplistic example that demonstrates this: I have two 1-year-old nieces. If you say, "Hi!" to one she gets excited, looks you in the eye, and smiles and giggles. Do the same with the other and she'll smile but immediately bury her face in her shoulder.

I think what you're talking about -- and many of the other comments on this page -- isn't shyness, but something completely different that actually has a much more descriptive name: Social Anxiety Disorder.

New comment by grourk in "Being Shy Is Just a Bad Habit, and You Can Break It With Regular Practice"

grourk — Sat, 12 May 2012 20:05:25 +0000

Didn't read the article, but I read the headline to my wife who has a Masters in Clinical Psychology and is studying for her MFT license exam. Her response, "That's garbage. Shyness isn't a bad habit, it's a personality trait; and it's perfectly normal." She went on, "The American culture tends to favor the extraverted, but studies show that introverts have just as meaningful lives as extraverts. They tend to have a more refined sense of self, they tend to know what they like, and they tend to be more selective with their friends. Introverts make great leaders and work well in groups, they don't demand extra attention."

She points out that people conflate anxiety with shyness. Same with anti-social habits and behaviors. Being under-socialized and not open to new experiences... I'd guess that's what this lifehacker article is doing. So if it's encouraging people to open themselves up a little more, more power to it. But please stop making "shyness" out to be some kind of defect!

New comment by grourk in "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)"

grourk — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:08:19 +0000

Everyone. Everyone is hiring Software Engineers.

New comment by grourk in "Go 1 Release Candidate 1"

grourk — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:14:44 +0000

"There are many inaccuracies, anecdotes and personal opinions that in my and many others' opinions don't matter..." The content of your comment renders your comment meaningless. It's like a Hofstadter Strange Loop of meaninglessness.

New comment by grourk in "We Need to Talk About Android"

grourk — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:38:13 +0000

This has nothing to do with his post. Did you read it beyond "What's wrong with Android?" and "Fragmentation"?

He's saying that for his purposes Android is not up to snuff, and then lays out the reasons -- fragmentation was one of them.

There can be an discussions about topics besides market domination. Such as what sucks about Android and how it could be better. An "endless parade" of such discussions doesn't prove that people don't understand what wins a market at all.

New comment by grourk in "Netflix loses 800,000 subscribers (stock drops 28%)"

grourk — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:15:15 +0000

Netflix works a treat with my webpass connection on my ps3. Never stops or stutters.

That said, I'll probably cancel because there's nothing I want to watch anymore.

New comment by grourk in "Siri Co-Founder Quits Apple"

grourk — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:18:50 +0000

He or she also stated their opinion: "and IMO, correctly pointed out". The statement that it is widely claimed was sort of the point of the comment.

New comment by grourk in ""Anonymous" Hackers Take Down Child Porn Websites, Leak Users' Names"

grourk — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:05:46 +0000

How's that?