Hacker News: moron

New comment by moron in "[dead]"

moron — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:29:44 +0000

If you think the only outcome of not paying your school will be that you don't receive "a piece of paper", you are too stupid to hire for any job. Sorry.

Life is going to be hard until you smarten up a little.

New comment by moron in "How Apple and Microsoft intend to destroy Android"

moron — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:38:40 +0000

I thought Groklaw was for information about legal proceedings, not speculation about companies' ability to compete in the market. MS isn't doing so hot, but it's pretty ridiculous to claim that Apple is doing this because they'd otherwise have some sort of trouble selling their devices.

New comment by moron in "In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo"

moron — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:47:36 +0000

Ah, I see. Thanks.

New comment by moron in "The value of short term thinking"

moron — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:48:35 +0000

Right, there's so much rhetoric about being a producer and not a consumer, when (as you point out) the things being produced are mostly pretty underwhelming. As if it doesn't really matter too much what you're making as long as you're a maker and not one of those yucky consumer zombies.

New comment by moron in "In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo"

moron — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:43:38 +0000

I tried to reach a Yahoo PR person for comment, but my phone remains unrung, even here in Israel.

I don't understand this sentence. Is her phone more likely to ring because she's in Israel, or something?

New comment by moron in "Is Algebra Necessary?"

moron — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 14:24:00 +0000

This whole discussion is silly and unrelated to the topic.

New comment by moron in "Is Algebra Necessary?"

moron — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 14:21:54 +0000

Telling that students struggling with a subject is considered evidence of a problem with the subject. Couldn't be the teachers or the curriculum or the students.

New comment by moron in "Changing My Mind On Microsoft"

moron — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:23:55 +0000

Yeah, it's interesting that it has become OK to say these things in the open. In the past, any doubting of MS was smacked down by simply pointing at Windows and Office, as well as MS's cash pile and market cap. It has been sort of painful seeing their series of sizeable blunders treated with something akin to a shrug, but I guess those chickens are finally coming home to roost.

New comment by moron in "The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance"

moron — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:18:25 +0000

Marco is accusing Apple of having made a critical strategic error. Where are all the people who call him a member of the Apple cult and all that crap? Funny how they disappear when it comes time to talk about what Apple is doing wrong.

New comment by moron in "Craigslist Suing Padmapper"

moron — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:11:01 +0000

No, it is effectively shutting down Padmapper. Apartment listings are on Craigslist.

As I have said elsewhere, I think Craigslist are within their rights here, but the situation still sucks. People want to browse apartment listings on a map, and Craigslist won't let us.

New comment by moron in "Hot Dogs & Caviar"

moron — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:24:49 +0000

MySpace's problems are due to their user base defecting en masse, I don't think their ad strategy was really a factor. Could be wrong, though.

New comment by moron in "Craigslist Suing Padmapper"

moron — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:52:16 +0000

The suit is understandable, but I wish craigslist would get over themselves already and allow users to look at listings on a map. That's all anyone really wants here, and this is getting a bit ridiculous.

New comment by moron in "Just pay me."

moron — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:45:36 +0000

I don't have the book but I agree about the video. Well worth watching.

New comment by moron in "Google Begins Practically Begging You to Use Your Real Name on YouTube"

moron — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:01:28 +0000

Wow. That is pretty terrible. Assuming you left the comment, did you try a browser in private mode to confirm the """"preview"""" was in fact limited to only you?

New comment by moron in "How We Got 50 Women to Our Hackathon (And You Can, Too)"

moron — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:23:32 +0000

That's great. I wonder what will become of all these things these people spent their time building.

New comment by moron in "Sprite Cow: Generate CSS for sprite sheets"

moron — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:17:03 +0000

Christ, you act like you're doing someone a favor running this tool that was built to help you save time. Let me guess, you're the guy who bitches when the WiFi is down on the airplane.

New comment by moron in "Sprite Cow: Generate CSS for sprite sheets"

moron — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:10:49 +0000

This is great, I spent hours dicking around with CSS sprites for back/forward arrows last week. It was a pretty frustrating waste of time. Every time I wanted the element to be wider I had to go back and redo the sprites. I guess I'd still have to do that here, but it takes away a lot of the pain.

New comment by moron in "Destined To Fail"

moron — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:52:49 +0000

Yeah, I'm not seeing TW's downside here. They're a monopoly, they don't have to care about tiny details like customer satisfaction or doing things correctly.

New comment by moron in "Don’t Jump to Conclusions About the Killer"

moron — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:31:57 +0000

I agree, but people don't want to hear that. Something must be done, think of the children. Political positions must be advanced, panicked news segments must be filmed, panel discussions must be held, Bill Maher has to run his mouth about conservatives, Rush Limbaugh has to run his mouth about liberals, opportunists must seize the moment, narratives must be created. Shit, man, there's too much gold in this tragedy to just throw it away!

Nobody likes hearing that the universe is uncaring and unpredictable. That's just a fucking bummer.

New comment by moron in "Don't Vote"

moron — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:05:30 +0000

That's not why you shouldn't vote. You shouldn't vote because our politics is a bunch of crazy people yelling at each other.