Hacker News: jpr

New comment by jpr in "Report: Apple Loses iPhone 5 Prototype. Yes, in a Bar."

jpr — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:42:41 +0000

Btw, downvoting just reaffirms my judgement about your appletardness.

New comment by jpr in "Report: Apple Loses iPhone 5 Prototype. Yes, in a Bar."

jpr — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:41:10 +0000

Ugh, anyone know of something along the lines Apple-haters -mailing list or something? I need a place where I can be reasonably sure that people who I am talking with aren't macfags.

New comment by jpr in "Rational Home Buying"

jpr — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:50:49 +0000

Isn't this the very kind of thinking - thinking that houses are investments and surely the prices will go up - that caused the housing bubble?

New comment by jpr in "Rational Home Buying"

jpr — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:11:23 +0000

Rational advice for splurging 500K to 1M+ on a "nice" home? Isn't that an oxymoron?

New comment by jpr in "Why Ubuntu Linux is now ready for primetime"

jpr — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:05:17 +0000

This is exactly the same article that has already been written by every geek who blogs and has recently tried Linux. Nothing new or interesting. Flagged.

New comment by jpr in "Despite Y Combinator Growth, Paul Graham Still Coding"

jpr — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:22:31 +0000

Not sure if serious or just mildly autistic...

New comment by jpr in "Is That Review a Fake? "

jpr — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:05:22 +0000

What's the point of filtering out all non-five star reviews? I for one would be very interested in fake reviews by my competitors.

New comment by jpr in "In response to This*: Stop letting engineers get away with social ineptitude"

jpr — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:31:40 +0000

As soon as people stop letting non-engineers get away with total, utter technical incompetence and stupidity.

New comment by jpr in "An Idea for the Economy that will Freak Out a lot of People"

jpr — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:11:04 +0000

Yeah, stupid, ignorant and dangerous ideas tend to freak people out...

New comment by jpr in "Why are programmers afraid of not using semicolons in JavaScript?"

jpr — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:13:00 +0000

That's a stupid question to ask. More appropriate would be: who on earth thinks that omitting semi-colons makes anything better?

New comment by jpr in "Why Social Proof Matters To Your Startup"

jpr — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:16:33 +0000

Working servers matter more, the page doesn't load for me.

New comment by jpr in "Linus Torvalds dumps Gnome3 for XFCE (G+ discussion)"

jpr — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:32:04 +0000

When was the last time you tried KDE4? I found that it was very unstable and buggy when I first tried it when it came out. Nowadays it seems stable (haven't had it crash anymore), and much less buggy (ie. normal level of bugginess).

New comment by jpr in "Study: Android is least open of open source mobile platforms"

jpr — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:41:21 +0000

Considering that there are pretty much no other open source mobile platforms, that is trivially true.

New comment by jpr in "Update: Internet Explorer IQ story was bogus"

jpr — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:26:36 +0000

So are you saying that no response data ever should be published, or people should be forced to take surveys and what not?

New comment by jpr in "Netflix Instant is coming to the entire Linux Community"

jpr — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:54:45 +0000

Someone still thinks artificial scarcity is a viable business model?

New comment by jpr in "3rd largest Bitcoin exchange lost its wallet.dat"

jpr — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:08:19 +0000

There's a reason real banks use mainframes, not cloud services...

New comment by jpr in "Don't use Java 7 for anything, unless you have no loops in your program"

jpr — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:42:05 +0000

Gah, I didn't remember that Java programmers have no sense of humor.

New comment by jpr in "Don't use Java 7 for anything, unless you have no loops in your program"

jpr — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:18:23 +0000

Good, loops are just gotos in disguise, and gotos are already banned in Java. This just makes the language more consistent.

New comment by jpr in "Java 7 is now available"

jpr — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:24:56 +0000

Perfect summation of everything java.

New comment by jpr in "OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store"

jpr — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:19:00 +0000

That doesn't say much without any information about which other laptops you've owned...