Hacker News: lutze

New comment by lutze in "Wozniak Says `Lot of Things Wrong’ With Jobs Movie [video]"

lutze — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:41:13 +0000

If Woz had a little more Jobs in him, he'd have told Jobs to go fuck himself when he sold Woz's work to Atari and paid him a fraction of the money.

There would be no Apple.

New comment by lutze in "NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ"

lutze — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 18:23:56 +0000

Look at it from the other way too.

A foreign agency is secretly funnelling money into an institution that's supposed to be looking after my (as a UK citizen) interests.

I think it's well past time this incestuous charade was exposed.

New comment by lutze in "The History of Ctrl + Alt + Delete"

lutze — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 18:45:33 +0000

I'm stuck in a cycle of continuously rediscovering this, then forgetting it again almost immediately because CTRL+ALT+DEL is so damned ingrained.

New comment by lutze in "Doug Engelbart was unable to find funding for his work"

lutze — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 12:30:06 +0000

See: Woz and Jobs.

New comment by lutze in "Russia may deem civil servants’ use of Gmail, Facebook ‘high treason’"

lutze — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:38:27 +0000

See this? This is part of the problem, stop being so stereotypically blinkered.

The rest of the world doesn't care if the US government is spying on its own citizens. The US government is ACCOUNTABLE to its own citizens (well nominally, but hey...), so if they don't like it they're in a position to do something about it.

As a none US citizen, I care that the US government is spying on ME, unilaterally and without any accountability.

This is what the rest of the world cares about. Stop pissing away what little sympathy you have by moaning like a spoiled child about the bad shit your government is doing to YOU, and open your fucking eyes to what it's doing to EVERYONE ELSE.

New comment by lutze in "All major UK ISPs prepping network-level porn 'n' violence filters"

lutze — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:33:50 +0000

Children shouldn't be using the internet unsupervised, full stop.

New comment by lutze in "“Warning” signs at historical sites tell visitors to relax and enjoy themselves"

lutze — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:05:15 +0000

This is remarkable, I initially thought you'd typo'd your typo and had to do a double take to spot it.

Isn't the brain a wonderful and scary thing.

New comment by lutze in "Erdogan says social media 'danger to society'"

lutze — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 22:08:50 +0000

"There is now a menace called the printing press. The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, movable type is the worst menace to society." -- some fucking Pope or other.

New comment by lutze in "Jack Vance, in memoriam: 1916 - 2013"

lutze — Thu, 30 May 2013 19:46:50 +0000

Gone to the great Rumfuddle in the sky. RIP.

96 isn't a bad innings all told.

New comment by lutze in "Eleven people across UK arrested for racist comments on Twitter"

lutze — Sat, 25 May 2013 21:18:19 +0000

Yeah, this article's blinkered, hyperbolic and frankly smug tone is pretty amusing when you take things like the above into context.

He even sticks a "literally Hitler!" on the end for good measure.

New comment by lutze in "Teen's invention could charge your phone in 20 seconds"

lutze — Sun, 19 May 2013 01:29:55 +0000

Not an expert, but from what I understand it's a trade off. Super-capacitors hold much less charge than batteries.

There was a very interesting article about them on HN last year IIRC.

New comment by lutze in "How To Use Social Media To Effectively Destroy Your Business"

lutze — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:20:12 +0000

There's no such thing as bad publicity!

Wrong.

New comment by lutze in "Sydney tunnel water screen stop sign for oversized vehicles [video]"

lutze — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:58:59 +0000

It's also easy to not see stuff when you're blind drunk.

Both of these things are illegal, it's no excuse.

New comment by lutze in "'The IT Crowd' to return for finale special"

lutze — Sat, 11 May 2013 16:06:02 +0000

It's not just better writing though, it's the difference between laughing with and laughing at.

BBT isn't just "not funny", it's actually rather obnoxious.

New comment by lutze in "'The IT Crowd' to return for finale special"

lutze — Sat, 11 May 2013 14:26:12 +0000

Is it bad that I can still recite that number from heart?

Rhetorical question, of course it isn't!

New comment by lutze in "My customer wants me to record a video of how I develop his software product"

lutze — Fri, 10 May 2013 11:19:16 +0000

Just write a script that outputs "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" for 40 hours, see how that tickles him.

New comment by lutze in "China Cyberspies Outwit U.S. Stealing Military Secrets"

lutze — Thu, 02 May 2013 05:53:27 +0000

'“When it comes to cyber security QinetiQ couldn’t grab their ass with both hands, so it cracks me up that they won,” Bob Slapnik, vice president at HBGary'

I love the smell of irony in the morning.

New comment by lutze in "SpaceX Grasshopper Flies High"

lutze — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:07:47 +0000

Good answer, thanks.

I've been playing too much Kerbal Space Program, I assumed the first stage had already reached orbital velocity.

New comment by lutze in "SpaceX Grasshopper Flies High"

lutze — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:50:29 +0000

Right, excellent.

Except the first stage doesn't run out of propellant does it, because it has to LAND again. Hence my puzzlement.

I know why multi-stage rockets are used... I'm asking why this rocket needs them, since they solve a problem it doesn't have by design.

New comment by lutze in "SpaceX Grasshopper Flies High"

lutze — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:42:06 +0000

I don't understand the need for the intermediary stages, couldn't the main rocket just deliver the payload and then land?

As it is in that video, it's having to carry engines and fuel for 3 separate stages, for no apparent reason.