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crispytx··on Ask HN: Which book had the biggest impact on your personality?
The Texas Penal Code ;)
crispytx··on Alibaba Cloud
How unoriginal can you get? We're sort of like the Amazon of China, why don't we get into cloud computing too?
crispytx··on Marc Andreessen answers questions from Stripe Atlas founders
What an elitist comment. I'm sure they'll get burned eventually with that kind of attitude.
crispytx··on How startups such as Dropbox, Airbnb, Groupon acquired their first users
A lot of people here in the comments section are saying that the things these companies did to launch were unethical. I disagree. It just goes to show you the lengths one must go to successfully launch a new product/service out into a vacuum. To create something new and original from nothing, you may have to go to extreme lengths.
crispytx··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Gmail that are new, cool, etc?
protonmail
crispytx··on Ask HN: Will I ever find a job?
Welcome to the real world :)
crispytx··on Ask HN: Which books are you reading in 2017?
Waiting for Jason Calacanis's "Angel" to come out later this month.
crispytx··on Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Discovered Photo Suggests
I was actually referring to bones that were found in the early 1940's and lost around the same time. I think we might be talking about a different set of bones.
crispytx··on Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Discovered Photo Suggests
I'm pretty sure researchers have already found the little island next to which she landed. It appears that she and Fred Noonan died as castaways on the island of Nikumaroro. Bones were found on the island several years later, but have since been lost to history. One researcher even found a piece of aluminum on the island that they believe was used to patch a broken window on her plane.
crispytx··on Show HN: A simple machine learning game in PHP
I tried to teach it but it didn't work =(
crispytx··on Will moving people to daily wages solve financial stress?
I think one of the biggest problems is inflation. We have an inflationary monetary system, so workers wages can fall way behind what it actually costs to live.
crispytx··on McClure steps back at 500Startups after internal sexual misconduct investigation
I don't think that's fair to lump Travis Kalanick into the same boat as Dave McClure. Kalanick didn't sexually harass anyone personally, his subordinates did. There isn't really any evidence that Travis Kalanick tried to cover anything up either. If you read that Susan Fowler blog post regarding sexual harassment at Uber, it sounds like she was sexually harassed by one person, and the HR department wouldn't do anything about it. To me that sounds like the harasser and the HR department are the guilty parties, not Travis Kalanick.
crispytx··on McClure steps back at 500Startups after internal sexual misconduct investigation
"This guy f*cks!" - Russ Hanneman
crispytx··on The .feedback scam
Scammers like this give capitalism a bad name.
crispytx··on Is it possible to host Facebook on AWS?
PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET BE LIKE: "Let's rewrite everything in Go."
crispytx··on Is it possible to host Facebook on AWS?
Reddit doesn't let people upload videos and pictures to their site. You have to post pictures and videos on other people sites and then link to them. Sort of the same thing with Netflix. Netflix doesn't have a bunch of people uploading stuff to their servers all the time.
crispytx··on Is it possible to host Facebook on AWS?
Yeah I thought that math sounded a little fuzzy myself.
crispytx··on Is it possible to host Facebook on AWS?
I think you could easily build the NEXT facebook on AWS or any of the big cloud computing platforms. But obviously moving facebook to AWS at its current size wouldn't be practical, and no one would probably ever do something like that.
crispytx··on People Who Hear Voices Could Be on to Something
Rule #1 of Mental Illness: If God starts talking to you, it's not God.
crispytx··on Ask HN: Are there any ad blockers that successfully block Forbes interstitials?
Their interstitials are the worst. They also don't even appear to contain any ads, just a quote of the day? WTF?
crispytx··on Has the internet gotten doper?
The internet is fucking lit.
crispytx··on Ask HN: Open source projects that need UI/UX help?
Pretty sure bootstrap accepts contributions from the community. They're working on Bootstrap 4 right now. Maybe that would be a good place to start? (I think they're just accepting bug fixes right now though)
crispytx··on Show HN: Tesoro – Personal internet archive
You know your site actually does a better job reproducing webpages than archive.org. I've noticed that if you use a CDN to serve up CSS & JS for a webpage that you're trying to archive on archive.org, it won't render correctly. On your site, there doesn't seem to be a problem including CSS & JS from an external domain. Thumbs up :)
crispytx··on Show HN: Tesoro – Personal internet archive
Haters gonna hate.
crispytx··on Ask HN: Are you programming server-side web apps without a framework?
PHP is my GOTO language on the backend, and I don't use a framework. That's my favorite thing about PHP - you don't really need a framework. (I know lots of people do use PHP frameworks, it's just my opinion that you don't really need one.)
crispytx··on Ask HN: Can you truly lead engineers without being an engineer?
No.
crispytx··on Will Silicon Valley remain the best hub of tech in the next 10 years?
It seems like the local governments are intentionally inflating housing prices which I think will end up driving companies out of town. I know I sure as hell don't want to move there.
crispytx··on The slow death of the electric guitar
lol, I did learn that song on guitar when it came out! But the majority of the songs I listen to now no longer feature a guitar part to learn.
crispytx··on The slow death of the electric guitar
Matt Bellamy of MUSE was my last guitar hero.
crispytx··on The slow death of the electric guitar
I posted this story first! My shit should of made it to the front page of hacker news :(
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