Hacker News: ulf

New comment by ulf in "Show HN: Squirrel feeder based on Raspberry Pi"

ulf — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:07:12 +0000

Creator here, I used a camera so that I would have video of everything that is happening. As seen in the follow-up post [1], I rebuilt the system so that the nut-release is triggered by a proximity sensor. The camera only records now.

[1] http://blog.ulfster.com/post/114942851719/squirrel-feeder-v2...

Show HN: Squirrel feeder based on Raspberry Pi

ulf — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:19:44 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.ulfster.com/post/114938394419/diy-automated-squirrel-feeder

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9285375

Points: 20

# Comments: 9

New comment by ulf in "The future is specific"

ulf — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:36:22 +0000

Looks more promising every time! While I like the idea to not work on your stuff as files, I have a question in that regard:

Do you have specific plans on how to incorporate version control when not primarily relying on files?

New comment by ulf in "My Biggest Temptation"

ulf — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:39:32 +0000

Try looking at it the other way:

99.8% of the world's population would like to have a car like mine...

New comment by ulf in "Peter Sunde: We need cash for anonymous transactions"

ulf — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:36:56 +0000

Maybe one step too far. more along the lines of:

"Hi there . Your usual big latte today or something else?"

"The usual please (It's nice not having to make those big decisions.)"

New comment by ulf in "The World Would Be a Better Place if Everyone Was a Hacker"

ulf — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:49:03 +0000

> Increase the average income of residents of your community.

Let's aim for raising the median income instead

Business Models On The Path Of Least Resistance

ulf — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:31:30 +0000

Article URL: http://tabbedthinking.posterous.com/business-models-on-the-path-of-least-resistan

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3477046

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Amazon Playbook

ulf — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:41:51 +0000

Article URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2011/12/14/the-amazon-playbook

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3369311

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Markdown2Deck.js - write your presentations in plain text

ulf — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:03:11 +0000

Article URL: http://tabbedthinking.posterous.com/markdown2deckjs-write-your-presentations-in-p

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3022009

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Why Your Startup Doesn’t Need a COO

ulf — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:43:12 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/09/12/why-your-startup-doesnt-need-a-coo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2991140

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ulf in "Lessons from Valve - How to build a designer's paradise"

ulf — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:21:05 +0000

Integrate an emergency energy unit and you do not even have to reboot for changing your location

New comment by ulf in "7-inch Amazon Tablet launches in October, 10-inch Version in Q1 2012"

ulf — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:25:33 +0000

"We have seen reports that one of the major weapons Amazon wants to use against the iPad is price."

Finally someone gets that this might be a good idea.

New comment by ulf in "Steve Jobs' Best Quotes"

ulf — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:05:24 +0000

I think he meant it more in the context of olden times, where neither pirates nor navy had "high tech playtoys" and piracy was a little more common than today

New comment by ulf in "Mark Cuban: What Business is Wall Street in?"

ulf — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 07:54:36 +0000

Wall street just followed a general theme among banks. Once upon a time they were institutions built to control capital flow, from where it was available to where it was needed, to provide some social value by allowing enterprises to thrive. But apparently the credit interest was not a big enough margin, so they decided to do all kinds of other shit, investment banking was born. Which mostly makes rich people richer, without any kind of social benefit.

Wall Street just followed that model.

New comment by ulf in "Show HN: Our Django Dash project: Proposalmatic"

ulf — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:49:48 +0000

I was thinking about marriage proposals when I got to the page.

"Use ProposalMatic to save snippets of text that you use often and mix and match to create personalized proposals" This really struck me as odd...

New comment by ulf in "Things you should know when interviewing for a programming job"

ulf — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:08:10 +0000

Furthermore, if you say "at least X", then guess what: their offer will be "X"

New comment by ulf in "Google made my son cry"

ulf — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:47:42 +0000

The service is not free, you just don't pay with money.

New comment by ulf in "Ordinary Income vs Capital Gains "

ulf — Mon, 02 May 2011 13:36:55 +0000

The major problem with the much cheaper taxing of capital gains remains the growing inequality: Of every you dollar you earn through your own labor, you get less (until you pass the max threshold). And this while your capacity of personal labor is clearly somehow limited. On the other hand, people earning one million dollars from capital gains are taxed equally with people who earn one billion.

New comment by ulf in "Questions you’ll (probably) get asked at your YC interview"

ulf — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:30:29 +0000

Great subset, one has to hope people do not read this as "this is how you game the interview process" but rather as "reflect about your idea with these points in mind".

New comment by ulf in "How to hire a Rails developer"

ulf — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:43:45 +0000

This might be another incarnation of the "Nobody ever gets fired for using IBM" phenomenon. HR are more likely aiming at avoiding errors, and not necessarily hiring the best people possible, if those come at a risk. So you can always say "but he had x years experience with Rails" if the hire doesn't pan out.