Hacker News: jkush

New comment by jkush in "Congrats to PG on getting hitched"

jkush — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:29:07 +0000

Congratulations on launching the biggest startup yet!

New comment by jkush in "Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types"

jkush — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:55:17 +0000

These are interesting results. I'm an ENTP - which seems to me to be an extroverted version of INTP. If you lump those two together - it seems that the overwhelming people here are very, very similar.

Clever Advertising: What I heard on my drive in this morning

jkush — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:52:14 +0000

I saw/heard some clever advertising this morning. At least, I think it's clever - it's possible that this is an old trick but I've never come across it before.

On my drive in this morning I saw signs along the side of the road. They were advertising a new radio station called "HouseTalk AM 1650". Being the highly suggestive person I am, I tuned to the station and heard a woman's voice advertising for a modular home business in the area.

The ad simply looped and as I drove out of the area, the "station" lost it's signal and eventually faded out.

Summer in Maine is all about tourists and "summer people". The business that put this "station" lies along one of the major routes that people drive on their way to locations in Downeast Maine.

Many tourists buy land and build homes here when they retire. I'm sure that many tourists who spend the summer here year after year often think about buying or building a small house in Maine that they can visit when they want to (a lot of them do exactly that).

This is pretty clever advertising. This transmitter for example costs less than $100 and will send a signal out for 1-2 miles.

Cheap advertising + captive audience in cars + a message lots of people will be interested in = clever.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=204278

Points: 1

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New comment by jkush in "Ask YC: Best credit card payment processor?"

jkush — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:22:20 +0000

you can use our service to find one (we currently only have two partners right now).

http://www.quotesignal.com

And when you do get a quote from someone, use this tool to rate it:

http://www.quotesignal.com/merchant-account-comparison-calcu...

EDIT: I know it's bad form to complain about downmods. This isn't a complaint just a statement that I'm flummoxed as to why this would be voted down.

New comment by jkush in "Six Annoyances in Hardy Heron Ubuntu"

jkush — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:51:17 +0000

My generalization stems from the number of comments with peers and countless internet searches for fixes.

In the case of peers, wireless card support was a common complaint.

In the case of searching, looking around the forums will give you a pretty good idea that wireless card support is pretty bad. I bought a standard Belkin wireless card from the local Staples. It should have worked, but didn't.

Yes, I think it's pretty broken.

New comment by jkush in "Six Annoyances in Hardy Heron Ubuntu"

jkush — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:40:12 +0000

These annoyances don't seem to be all that critical. I haven't been able to use my wireless card on Gutsy since I installed it several months ago.

Last night, I upgraded to Heron and voila, my wireless card is recognized and functional.

Annoyances aside, making Ubuntu's very broken wireless driver support a little less broken makes installing Heron much more appealing than previous versions.

New comment by jkush in "Ask PG: What's your take on the Yahoo! situation?"

jkush — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:38:11 +0000

That's why you should create an alter ego who thinks Matt Maroon is so great he makes a fan site.

Why Virtual Reality Could Explain the Fermi Paradox

jkush — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:44:49 +0000

Article URL: http://michaelgr.com/2008/05/09/virtual-reality-could-explain-the-fermi-paradox/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185810

Points: 1

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New comment by jkush in "Chapter 5 (Inheritance) from Douglas Crockford’s “JavaScript: The Good Parts”"

jkush — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:54:28 +0000

Am I the only one who thinks his writing is a bit obscure? I don't mean that what he's talking about is obscure but that the angles he takes come from seemingly weird directions.

Dual n-back: IQ boosting exercise

jkush — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:08:41 +0000

Article URL: http://dual-n-back.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181459

Points: 5

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New comment by jkush in "Ask YC: Is it possible to build a computer display that corrects your vision?"

jkush — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:54:09 +0000

What about correcting for color blindness? There must be a relatively easy way to auto correct certain colors so they stand out more. I bet there'd be a market for that.