Hacker News: zecho

New comment by zecho in "Peter Thiel’s Bet on Donald Trump Pays Off"

zecho — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:36:18 +0000

lol I never said that. I said people who work in computer science who say that <50% is a majority have a serious problem with math and should look for work elsewhere given the nature of our field.

New comment by zecho in "Peter Thiel’s Bet on Donald Trump Pays Off"

zecho — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:29:50 +0000

Everyone else.

New comment by zecho in "Peter Thiel’s Bet on Donald Trump Pays Off"

zecho — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:23:08 +0000

Psst. 59,704,886 < 59,938,290 + 4,072,835 + 1,218,065 + 804,228

If you can't do basic arithmetic, you should lose your career in this field, imo.

New comment by zecho in "Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction"

zecho — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 18:25:54 +0000

oh yeah for sure man

New comment by zecho in "How the Internet will disrupt higher education’s most valuable asset: Prestige"

zecho — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 22:00:14 +0000

Thought I was reading The Onion for a moment. Nobody cites Frank Bruni as a source unironically, do they?

>"...it will be harder and harder for Yale to explain what it offers for all that money except a piece of paper that says you went to Yale."

Yale has been clear about that since roughly 1693.

New comment by zecho in "When to join a startup"

zecho — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 14:45:21 +0000

I think there's always been naive people in the labor force. See also: unpaid interns working at national magazines.

New comment by zecho in "How three teenagers invented an app to police the cops"

zecho — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 14:45:39 +0000

Wow yeah. HUGE oversight by The Economist, imo.

New comment by zecho in "The Best Books I Read in 2015"

zecho — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 06:31:25 +0000

Ah yes, David Brooks, who once complained about an extravagant around-the-world trip because he couldn't stop to stare at a painting for four hours like another famous person once did. He's the worst kind of middlebrow writer.

New comment by zecho in "Twitter announces layoffs"

zecho — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:10:26 +0000

We very much need twitter. What other platform is there for teens to say 'DADDY' to world leaders? What other platform is their for those world leaders to put their feet in their mouth? These are the important things to online bullies and comedians.

New comment by zecho in "LibreStock – do-whatever-you-want stock photos"

zecho — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 19:56:23 +0000

It sucks.

http://librestock.com/search/?query=laughing+woman+eating+sa...

New comment by zecho in "Unethical behavior by Manning, the publisher of our book “Big Data”"

zecho — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 18:37:03 +0000

Seems a bit overwrought over a font size.

New comment by zecho in "Irving, TX ninth grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school"

zecho — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 05:55:06 +0000

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ws7e8WyQvrsLfhSFvdGot3n9NWK...

New comment by zecho in "Irving, TX ninth grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school"

zecho — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 04:36:46 +0000

Anil Dash started a document for folks to show support. He says he'll be in touch with the family soon.

https://twitter.com/anildash/status/644000575617658881

The servitude bubble

zecho — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 18:47:00 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/bad-words/the-servitude-bubble-c9e998c437c6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10166795

Points: 7

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New comment by zecho in "Ashley Madison founder steps down"

zecho — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 17:19:23 +0000

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, smart guy.

New comment by zecho in "How companies make millions off lead-poisoned, poor blacks"

zecho — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 01:52:22 +0000

Fascinating businesses. I bet some smart hacker could totally improve this process, though.

New comment by zecho in "Bootstrap 4 alpha"

zecho — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 20:18:32 +0000

From mdo's answer in the Slack chatroom:

> more people use SCSS, libsass is crazy fast, syntax is more explicitly clear, and I'm lazy and use SCSS at GitHub

New comment by zecho in "Bootstrap 4 alpha"

zecho — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:46:37 +0000

Like which? Ember continues to depend on it. Angular uses a lightweight version. I don't think there's a lot of interest in reinventing the wheel as far as cross-browser JS libraries go.

New comment by zecho in "Bootstrap 4 alpha"

zecho — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 16:45:32 +0000

To be clear: It's optional. Off by default.

New comment by zecho in "Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841) [pdf]"

zecho — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 18:41:13 +0000

Not only did you get the wrong Concord resident, you trotted out the biggest misconception of the book with the subtitle "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For." Whenever this complaint comes up, it is very clear the writer didn't bother to read the book, or even its most famous passage, where Thoreau explains exactly what he was doing at Walden:

> I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.