Hacker News: va_coder

New comment by va_coder in "Datomic Free Edition"

va_coder — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:31:00 +0000

It's a project that allows the Clojure guys to monetize their work.

Go ahead HN Lisp lovers, kill my karma!

New comment by va_coder in "Obama scares the hell out of everybody with cybersecurity op-ed"

va_coder — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:52:03 +0000

slightly offtopic: The user id - coconuts2314 - looks like a bot. Look at all the submissions and only one lame comment. Shouldn't the HN spam algorithms detect this?

New comment by va_coder in "PostgreSQL Rising"

va_coder — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 02:29:20 +0000

Does Postgres have an equivalent Connect By feature? Last I checked it didn't. If you don't need to scale your hierarchical data much, its pretty handy. I'd prefer to go to Postgres too.

New comment by va_coder in "Vim, you complete me"

va_coder — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:38:09 +0000

I didn't know this one: ^X ^L

New comment by va_coder in "The True Story of the Amazon Door-Desk"

va_coder — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 12:18:10 +0000

Perl: one man's solution is another man's problem

New comment by va_coder in "Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant"

va_coder — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:58:01 +0000

Why is Amazon so dominant in e-commerce if the working conditions are so bad?

New comment by va_coder in "Super-star programmers"

va_coder — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:26:37 +0000

I subscribe to the Economist and listen to it during my commute. Many of their articles are verbose, but it's still better, IMO, than many alternatives.

New comment by va_coder in "Yammer agrees to Microsoft's $1 billion acquisition offer"

va_coder — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:39:06 +0000

I work at a company that uses Jive (forum software written in Java) and its a grave yard. I'm really surprised that Yammer is so popular.

New comment by va_coder in "What’s to love about C?"

va_coder — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:25:38 +0000

People who love C love it, in part, because they are often solving interesting problems with it. Many problems that require C are interesting: embedded software, automated robots, new databases etc. Most problems that C is not good at - Web development - are not that interesting to many people that love C.

New comment by va_coder in "5 Million Farmers Sue Monsanto for $7.7 Billion"

va_coder — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:20:58 +0000

"Monsanto won its case against Parr, but the company, which won't comment on specific cases, has stopped its legal action for PR reasonsagainst the Runyons."

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18563_162-4048288.html

New comment by va_coder in "5 Million Farmers Sue Monsanto for $7.7 Billion"

va_coder — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:17:58 +0000

Google is your friend. Here's one of many:

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18563_162-4048288.html

New comment by va_coder in "5 Million Farmers Sue Monsanto for $7.7 Billion"

va_coder — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:49:24 +0000

It's my understanding Monsanto isn't a company that relies on free markets. They use lawyers heavily. If their seeds blow from a customer's farm to a non customer's farm and the non customer doesn't actively try to remove the Monsanto seeds, they sue. They are like the seed mafia.

New comment by va_coder in "Facebook Will Disappear by 2020"

va_coder — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:40:04 +0000

You have to take everything a hedge fund trader says with a grain of salt. These guys are making bets both upwards and downwards on the same day.

For all I know they've got a program that detects when this article hits the web and that triggers a trade, and then an hour later their program triggers another trade.

New comment by va_coder in "A VC-funded startup called WhosHere is trying to steal my social network"

va_coder — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 21:22:46 +0000

Do a search on twitter for whoshere. What a P.R. nightmare.

If they cared about protecting a brand name they should have chosen something more original than 'Who's Here'.

New comment by va_coder in "Facebook insiders sold 57% of their shares on Friday"

va_coder — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:44:32 +0000

It's useful to me. The amount of words doesn't equal the quality of the content.

When my dad asks if he thinks he should buy some Facebook stock, I can tell him the IPO was more about allowing insiders to sell their stock than raise capital. Red flag

New comment by va_coder in "Pinterest Raises $100 MM at $1.5Bn Valuation"

va_coder — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:37:06 +0000

Is it possible to short stock in a non public company?

New comment by va_coder in "Loving Google but Not Its Public Offering (from 2004)"

va_coder — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:42:33 +0000

"Mr. Kaplan, the entrepreneur, argues that by styling itself as an idiosyncratic company that has broken the mold in initial offerings, Google is potentially courting disaster."

Maybe in hindsight he meant the opposite of disaster.

New comment by va_coder in "On Diaspora's Social Network, You Own Your Data"

va_coder — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:54:40 +0000

When it's finally released the plan is to change the name right? Diaspora sounds like horrible disease.

New comment by va_coder in "Jelastic Java Hosting Platform Announces Commercial Release with ServInt"

va_coder — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:52:10 +0000

Thanks

New comment by va_coder in "On Diaspora's Social Network, You Own Your Data"

va_coder — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:50:40 +0000

How do they plan on monetizing their efforts?