Hacker News: rewind

New comment by rewind in "Banks Forgot Who Was Supposed to Own Dell Shares"

rewind — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 07:34:27 +0000

I've never understood why people whine about upvotes. If there were no upvotes, would you not even post? Do you only post so you can be validated by mouse clicks of people you don't know?

New comment by rewind in "If hospitals were run like startups"

rewind — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 21:11:04 +0000

Wow. Talk about missing the point. He's obviously not talking about how the whole hospital is run. He's talking about using selective technology to make certain things run better.

New comment by rewind in "I’m an Anti-Braker"

rewind — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 17:37:17 +0000

The recommended age to vaccinate is 12 months (I've read as early as six months). Until those babies are able to be vaccinated, they're at risk.

New comment by rewind in "Illinois General Assembly passes bill to ban citizens from recording police"

rewind — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 05:37:32 +0000

Tell that to the 98% of people who will "surely" have never heard of this and think, reasonably, that recording a cop won't put them in jail.

New comment by rewind in "A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It in the Metal"

rewind — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 23:11:30 +0000

Regardless of whether or not it's a better watch, unless it has an Apple logo on it somewhere and they hide the Motorola logo, then I doubt very much that that would ever happen.

New comment by rewind in "Stripe and Apple Pay"

rewind — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 19:30:32 +0000

If you're using Stripe as your payment processor and using Apple Pay through Stripe (just like choosing a different credit card), then you're still only using one payment processor. All your transfers, transaction data, accounting, etc. is just done through Stripe. You don't care that the customer actually used Apple Pay.

New comment by rewind in "Y Combinator to recruit more black entrepreneurs"

rewind — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:51:36 +0000

I'm pretty sure that "recruit", in this context, means "expose to Y Combinator and encourage to apply if they have a good idea", not "give them a higher chance of being accepted because they are black".

New comment by rewind in "If You Want to See Inequality in the U.S. at Its Worst, Visit an Impound Lot"

rewind — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 04:28:12 +0000

The prototypical HNer is probably trying to start a business or passionately underpaid at a starup and making a fraction of what they would get paid working a normal job. Yeah, trivial.

New comment by rewind in "Why I Joined the Static Blog Movement"

rewind — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 19:24:32 +0000

Do you find that you're limited to using desktops/laptops because of the client requirement, or are there good options for adding posts from phones/tablets?

New comment by rewind in "Yogscast Kickstarter failure is a painful reminder of the risks of crowdfunding"

rewind — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:08:43 +0000

There's no shame in failing if you haven't taken your customers' money. "Kickstarter" is not synonymous with "give us your money and we'll try really hard, but if we fail, bummer for you".

New comment by rewind in "Startup School NY Live Stream"

rewind — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:36:01 +0000

The comment is garbage, but I don't think an anonymous, unmoderated comment is going to stop the type of women who speak at these sorts of events from wanting to come back.

New comment by rewind in "Andrew Warner's Mixergy Celebrates 1,000th interview"

rewind — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 06:28:09 +0000

I've seen zero pretentiousness from Andrew in all the years he's been doing interviews. If I had to rate hime on a pretentiousness scale, I might even have to give him a negative rating. Humble-bragging about your low-pretentiousness-tolerance being a "personal fault" is laughable.

New comment by rewind in "What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap"

rewind — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 19:57:23 +0000

Fantastic analogy. Nicely done.

New comment by rewind in "The Rise and Fall of Professional Bowling"

rewind — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 23:10:20 +0000

Applies to golf and pool for me. But I start off as a bit better than average while sober, in the zone at four or five beers, then I fall off a cliff after that. Relaxation and looseness apparently have a very narrow maximum window of effectiveness while drinking. Go past it, and you're hosed (but I always had fun getting there).

New comment by rewind in "Paul Graham Proves Sexism in Tech Is Still a Problem"

rewind — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 19:40:24 +0000

Whether or not this applies to other jobs has nothing to do with whether or not it applies to CS-related jobs.

New comment by rewind in "From carpool to deadpool: Ridejoy’s startup journey"

rewind — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 17:17:09 +0000

I think this is a good attitude in a general sense, but I don't think failure needs to be sugar-coated. If you have a goal, set out to achieve it, and you don't, then you failed. If you learned some valuable lessons along the way, that's great. If you deny failure, I think that's being dishonest with yourself so you don't feel so bad. Failure should feel bad as much as success should feel good.

New comment by rewind in "Why Millennials Can’t Grow Up"

rewind — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 05:02:34 +0000

Yay! Another comment where the younger generation blames the older generation. You see the problem with this type of argument, right?

New comment by rewind in "Poll: How do you feel about working hours?"

rewind — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 19:34:27 +0000

You're jamming several different types of answers into single selections, then leaving gaping holes in other areas. If you want hours, just do hours. If you want sentiment, just do sentiment but you're going to need way more options. If you want to do hours and sentiment, you'd need about 25 different options just to properly cover what you're indicating here, not even counting all the holes you've left.

New comment by rewind in "1/1 Scale F-16 Cockpit"

rewind — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:44:29 +0000

Over-the-top epidemic??? Pretty silly exaggeration. In a male-dominated industry, you'll never be accused of gender bias as a male if you use feminine subjects in your sentences. So if we say "he" all the time, we're gender-biased, and if we say "she" all the time, it's an epidemic?

New comment by rewind in "Huge water reserve discovered in Kenya"

rewind — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 05:04:11 +0000

Plastic is the new aluminum (although I really like the 5c, actually, though the case is an abomination).