far33d

They want one so they can assure israel won't fire theirs first.

also, don't get me wrong - I'm a technical guy. 90% of each of my days is spent messing around with complicated and complex problems in code. That's what I do, and I respect everyone else who does that. That's WHY I believe the original sentiment is so flawed. Just because you use C and have to deal with tricky memory issues doesn't actually make the problems you solve any more interesting or useful. There's plenty of useless code in any language.

You are right - doing things just because is a big part of the essence of hacking.

I fully respect all the work of people who work on "hard problems" - I even believe that I have and continue to work on "hard problems" every day. The list of things the OP used were basically "skills" not problems (virtual destruction semantics, references, pointers, etc). It's the attitude I dislike, not the desire to do hard things. The attitude that "these things are hard to understand and therefore more interesting and more worthy" is ridiculous, and shows that the writer doesn't actually understand any of the things he hasn't worked on.

I don't diss people working on hard things - I diss people who call everyone who doesn't work on what they work on weenies.

I love the "I like using tools like this because they are hard and it makes me feel smarter than everyone else" attitude. I understand everything on the little laundry list, including things I wish I'd never had to do (UML diagrams, for instance), but choose to work on the web. Why? Because I prefer my "hard problems" to be customer problems, not technical ones. I'm happy to work on hard technical problems when products require it, but there's plenty of difficulty just figuring out what people want and how to get it to them quickly. There's no glory in doing hard things for the sake of it. I don't need to purposely handicap myself just to prove that I'm smarter than other people.

I'm fully confident in my intelligence without playing stupid games.

I just found myself wanting this morning when I was reading through the comment threads of a friend of mine. I really wished that I had seen them at the time they were posted instead of 3 months after the fact.

I don't think this would be a particularly hard thing to build as a weekend hack...

I don't think that Paul Bucheit is CEO

far33d's definitive guide to taming the IE6 beast: Don't support IE6.

But wouldn't he be seeing a change in his CPM rates?

I think reading through Steve Blank's "four steps to the epiphany" or reading up about the customer development process might help you figure out how to turn those mild positives into real sales.

As to the house arrest rumor, when I saw it go by on twitter it was usually marked as unsubstantiated, and it was quickly replaced by reports he was not under house arrest.

If you are going to focus on a twitter feed, you need to be a more critical reader, but it seems to be quickly self correcting.

It has been blocked, but the users are using proxies..

Use of proxies is quite common in Iran, and working proxy lists are being passed around on twitter.

When did FB start requiring flash 10 for video? Yesterday?

Yes, but the coach of a mediocre NBA or NFL team has a lot more to lose than just the game. Take big risks and end up losing 15 football games, and your career as a coach might be over. Play the regular style and lose 15 games, and you have a "young team".

I TA'd this class once upon a time. The slides are great.

This app is essentially a subscription. I paid for it last season and loved it. On opening day this season I opened it up just to find that it was disabled and I had to purchase it again this year. I didn't repurchase because I felt this was falsely advertised.

I don't agree. I think all code of any size, bad or good, has these words in it. The problem with his statement is that "UGLY TERRIBLE HACK" is relative. One man's terrible hack is another man's normal day-to-day style. In bad code, there are just more ugly hacks that aren't commented as such.

Maybe higher karma users could change the title dynamically like they can change the top bar color?

Actually, the event itself was fine, and I enjoyed it and the people I met. I didn't like how it felt like a big publicity stunt that the twitter community was being asked to support.

Anyone actually going? I'm not normally a fan of these things (and this one is particularly lame) but our startup is in the building...

It's more a question of who I block. Sometimes I have IRL friends who sign up for twitter and have no tweets yet. If I see that they also have 10000 people they are following, I don't waste time figuring out if I know them.

NO!

Follower count is the only way to recognize spam/junk accounts. If someone follows 10k people and has 4 followers... obvious spam account.

You could make the case that this is already embedded in the equation - a great employee #4 would add way more value than an equally great employee #35, since they will have more influence over the direction, will write a higher percentage of the total code, etc.

Up is an amazing film. It's funny, endearing, classic, and artistically excellent. The film breaks out of the mold of 3D animated film art direction with stylized characters and it prefers graphic shapes over the hyper-realism so common in the genre (you'll have to trust me).

While the characters are not toys, cars, or fish (which are easily merchandised) they are still cute. It will probably sell (at box office and toy shelves) at the same level as Ratatouille, but that is still a major success for any other studio on the planet.

Pixar used to be lauded for its originality and commitment to high quality. Suddenly, it's being panned for those same things.

The article basically argues that they didn't "cave" - instead they made a rational choice to write contracts that were detrimental to the long-term viability of the company in return for short-term margins and profits.

The same could be said for the legacy airlines. They made their contracts under regulation, where they could raise rates to match their labor costs without fear of competition, and now are suffering the consequences.

For the 50th time at least, I will reiterate (somewhat ironically) that the worst thing on HN isn't the off-topic stories but the constant meta-conversations about what is and isn't off-topic. Boring.

I am so sorry for accidentally voting this up. Silly iPhone. Silly fat fingers.

Why did you have to ruin the last good site on the internet?

Techstars is running a program in Boston now. I know a few of the mentors and they are great folks involved.

Wow. I've always been a little frustrated by Atwood, but this comment just got him removed from my feed reader.