Hacker News: hkphooey

Tim Cook Auctions Charity Lunch Meeting at Apple HQ: $100,000

hkphooey — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 05:16:35 +0000

Article URL: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/04/24/tim-cook-lunch-auction/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7644887

Points: 2

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New comment by hkphooey in "Mozilla CTO: Andreas Gal"

hkphooey — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 02:43:25 +0000

How far do you take it?

Don't invest in Apple stock if you're against abortion?

Don't invest in Apple stock if you're against software patents?

Don't invest in Apple stock if you're a member of a socialist party?

If you think what Tim Cook did was right, then you don't understand what a free market is.

Finally, please don't smear people as "deniers" just because they want to have an honest scientific debate. Or do you honestly believe someone like Freeman Dyson is a simple-minded old fool?

http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2151

New comment by hkphooey in "Mozilla CTO: Andreas Gal"

hkphooey — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 01:55:21 +0000

Employees tweeting they want Brendan Eich to resign because his donation to Prop 8 is not in line with Mozilla's mission.

The mission to build a free and open web has nothing to do with social issues such as gay marriage.

New comment by hkphooey in "Mozilla CTO: Andreas Gal"

hkphooey — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:13:25 +0000

I disagree about Mozilla's future.

What does it matter if Andreas is technically competent when he has to manage activists rather than programmers?!

There are people working at Mozilla today, many of whom are pulling in a decent salary, who believe they are working for social justice charity rather than a technology non-profit.

Firefox is the golden goose but they might eventually bankrupt themselves by spending resources on non-core missions, like the GNOME foundation who had to whip out the begging bowl because they spent all their money on a women's outreach program rather than developing technology.

New comment by hkphooey in "Polyfidelity: World's only married lesbian throuple expecting their first child"

hkphooey — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 19:30:41 +0000

Quite interesting - they have effectively hacked the marriage system in Massachusetts.

>Kitten, Brynn and Doll had to work with the legalities of the state to get married to each other. As being married to more than one person is not currently legal, they had to combine handfasting, legally binding documents and legal marriage.

A family lawyer drew up paperwork - in terms of assets, wills and legal rights to children - to bind them all together as much as they could without an actual three way marriage.

Will there be repercussions?

For example, will they will be allowed to live together under one roof? A polygamous mormon family who have a TV show have to live in houses next door to each other as the law does not allow them to all live in the same house.

Also since the women are in a de facto three-way marriage, perhaps the campaign for marriage equality should support them?

Polyfidelity: World's only married lesbian throuple expecting their first child

hkphooey — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:46:42 +0000

Article URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2611020/Meet-worlds-married-lesbian-threesome-baby-make-four-July.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7636061

Points: 2

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Fukushima No. 1 boss admits water woes out of control

hkphooey — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 16:12:37 +0000

Article URL: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/20/national/fukushima-no-1-boss-admits-water-woes-out-of-control

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7621787

Points: 1

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New comment by hkphooey in "Ubuntu 14.04 released"

hkphooey — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:21:34 +0000

Anybody know when Xubuntu and Lubuntu will be updated to 14.04?

Is it usually the same day or a few days later?

New comment by hkphooey in "Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12)"

hkphooey — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:17:37 +0000

Never used any of these services... because I had never heard of them until now. Honest truth.

New comment by hkphooey in "Yahoo spends $58 million to fire its chief operating officer"

hkphooey — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:13:35 +0000

There should be claw-back provisions if an employee don't perform.

Marissa Mayer is about to face her toughest test as Yahoo’s CEO

hkphooey — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 16:43:08 +0000

Article URL: http://qz.com/198772/marissa-mayer-is-about-to-face-her-toughest-test-as-yahoos-ceo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7604668

Points: 3

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Mercer Consulting: Once an Arab model, Baghdad now world's worst city

hkphooey — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 16:22:43 +0000

Article URL: http://news.yahoo.com/once-arab-model-baghdad-now-worlds-worst-city-171513551.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7604532

Points: 2

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New comment by hkphooey in "TurboTax Maker Intuit Funnels Millions to Lobby Against Easier Tax Returns"

hkphooey — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:55:25 +0000

A lot of general phone support has been shut down and you are now told to look at the website.

I think the temporary phone shut down during the last debt ceiling government shutdown saga is now permanent.

Donald Rumsfeld declares war on IRS

hkphooey — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 00:40:28 +0000

Article URL: http://blogs.marketwatch.com/taxwatch/2014/04/15/donald-rumsfeld-declares-war-on-irs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7595265

Points: 3

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UK Prime Minister asked for permanent police anti-piracy unit funding

hkphooey — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:19:36 +0000

Article URL: http://torrentfreak.com/uk-prime-minister-asked-for-permanent-police-anti-piracy-unit-funding-140414/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7593412

Points: 6

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TurboTax maker spending millions to kill simplified IRS tax filing

hkphooey — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 04:07:32 +0000

Article URL: http://rt.com/usa/turbo-tax-harder-than-necessary-500/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7590263

Points: 6

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New comment by hkphooey in "OpenBSD has started a massive strip-down and cleanup of OpenSSL"

hkphooey — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 03:37:46 +0000

Or maybe only gray-haired curmudgeons are working on this... CVS is quite a high entry barrier for young trendy Githubbers!

Stuck in Tijuana hoping for a miracle: the deportees with nowhere to go

hkphooey — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 01:46:40 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/11/undocumented-migrants-stuck-tijuana-mexico-us

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7576602

Points: 2

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New comment by hkphooey in "Banned for Life – The hidden danger when developing for Android"

hkphooey — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 20:29:11 +0000

Looks like Google can dish out lifetime App Store bans without any recourse or transparency, and cancel your other services like Google Wallet and even Google Music.

>Who am I?

I’m an indie software developer living in San Francisco. I have a wife and two kids. I have had a long software career since 1990 creating successful apps for MacOS / OS X.

...

TL;DR:

Tried to become a professional Android developer. Didn’t realize posting some apps for beta testing would result in being banned for life by Google before even having a chance to get started. I assumed a human would be involved in any banning process and they would clearly see that I was not intending to fool anyone and that my apps were harmless. Consider this before investing time and money into developing for Android. If one of their algorithms thinks you’re a bad guy, you’re banned for life.

Banned for Life – The hidden danger when developing for Android

hkphooey — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 20:24:59 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/medium-long/c62f2404f66?u=415098234

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7569454

Points: 19

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