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jkushon Congrats to PG on getting hitched

Congratulations on launching the biggest startup yet!

jkushon Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types

These are interesting results. I'm an ENTP - which seems to me to be an extroverted version of INTP. If you lump those two together - it seems that the overwhelming people here are very, very similar.

jkushon Ask YC: Best credit card payment processor?

you can use our service to find one (we currently only have two partners right now).

http://www.quotesignal.com

And when you do get a quote from someone, use this tool to rate it:

http://www.quotesignal.com/merchant-account-comparison-calcu...

EDIT: I know it's bad form to complain about downmods. This isn't a complaint just a statement that I'm flummoxed as to why this would be voted down.

jkushon Six Annoyances in Hardy Heron Ubuntu

My generalization stems from the number of comments with peers and countless internet searches for fixes.

In the case of peers, wireless card support was a common complaint.

In the case of searching, looking around the forums will give you a pretty good idea that wireless card support is pretty bad. I bought a standard Belkin wireless card from the local Staples. It should have worked, but didn't.

Yes, I think it's pretty broken.

jkushon Six Annoyances in Hardy Heron Ubuntu

These annoyances don't seem to be all that critical. I haven't been able to use my wireless card on Gutsy since I installed it several months ago.

Last night, I upgraded to Heron and voila, my wireless card is recognized and functional.

Annoyances aside, making Ubuntu's very broken wireless driver support a little less broken makes installing Heron much more appealing than previous versions.

jkushon Ask PG: What's your take on the Yahoo! situation?

That's why you should create an alter ego who thinks Matt Maroon is so great he makes a fan site.

jkushon Chapter 5 (Inheritance) from Douglas Crockford’s “JavaScript: The Good Parts”

Am I the only one who thinks his writing is a bit obscure? I don't mean that what he's talking about is obscure but that the angles he takes come from seemingly weird directions.

jkushon Ask YC: Is it possible to build a computer display that corrects your vision?

What about correcting for color blindness? There must be a relatively easy way to auto correct certain colors so they stand out more. I bet there'd be a market for that.

jkushon Singularity Objections

We might live in a computer simulation and it might be too computationally expensive for our simulators to simulate our world post-singularity.

That's an awful lot of "mights".

jkushon Which is your favorite 70-80s computer book?

It doesn't mean you had to be alive or capable of reading in the 70's or 70's; have you read anything you liked that was published then?

jkushon Simple brain exercise can boost IQ

If there's anything I learned from statistics, it's the sneakiness of the word "significant". What, exactly, is a significant boost? Two points? Ten?

jkushon Ask YC: Recommend a merchant account provider

Check out http://www.quotesignal.com/merchant-account-comparison-calcu... *

If you get a quote, run it through this calculator first. The site only has two partners right now, but check them out anyway.

Also, the blog has some information for how to calculate what your costs are going to be: http://www.quotesignal.com/blog//?p=4

It's a three-part series.

* I co founded this site.

jkushon Nickb, Are you okay?

Tough crowd tonight!

jkushon Nickb, Are you okay?

I think he's at home resting. Probably recovering from carpal tunnel syndrome.

jkushon The Startup Curve

I would have thought there'd be a few more wiggles of false hope just before the trough of sorrow. You know, to make the trough of sorrow that much deeper and painful!

jkushon Perfecting OO's Small Classes and Short Methods

I don't know, a lot of these guidelines seem to be arbitrary. It's good practice to keep code small and to the point, but to say that a class should never exceed 50 lines of code is a little too exact and makes the whole list a bit suspect.

jkushon Where do you go for news when you've read all posts on the YC frontpage?

That, sir, is bizarre logic.

jkushon Everything I Needed to Know About Programming I Learned from BASIC

I started with C and then quickly realized that BASIC was much more fun, precisely because it was easier and therefore more fun.

jkushon Where do you go for news when you've read all posts on the YC frontpage?

I think he's referring to your usage of "u". Adding four characters to your title isn't that hard, and the above poster "newbie" or not is right, I think we'd all prefer to see "you" instead of "u".

jkushon KeyLemon: Webcam + Facial Recognition Software = Automatic Computer Locking/Unlocking

Windows only at the moment though, they appear to be working on MacOSX.

jkushon YC Analysis: "37signals/DHH style" companies?

I think the beauty of these types of sites is that we've probably haven't heard of many of them.

jkushon How Do You Think of Problems to Solve?

This is incredibly insightful advice. Almost accidentally, I've found that recursively asking "why?" results in very unexpected answers. And by unexpected I mean insightful.

jkushon To Get Rich, Just Follow the Instructions

Well, that's great advice...when you have instructions to read.

jkushon Startup Drinks

Hey - I work in Portland, ME. Shoot me an email? john at quotesignal dot com - I'd love to catch up with you guys.

jkushon Intwition - A new Twitter app that lets you see whose linking to your site on Twitter

Clever name.

jkushon Ask News.YC: Proposed experiment to test "The PG bias"

I'm not entirely sure what problem you're trying to solve. Are you trying to "fix" the impression that PG-pandering is present so more outsiders make their way into the community?

I don't particularly care if PG gets tons of karma. I love the submissions, comments and community here.

I think it's best to just let it be exactly the way it is, even if there's some pandering.

jkushon Ask YC: When can we expect to know our YC application status?

Haha. That's terrible advice! :)

How about just checking your email once every few hours or when you feel like it? That seems to be a less extreme reaction.

jkushon Pg's Hierarchy of Disagreement Represented Graphically

I don't think you could succeed. First of all your self-abasing statement that you could succeed except for DH2 is an obvious ploy to catch us off guard. Nice try.

Secondly, I don't like your tone. Not one bit, sir. Who, exactly are you to try arguing using all 7 categories? Oh, you're a hacker you say? Well, of course a hacker would think they could argue using all 7 categories! I stand corrected!

p.s.ur gay.

(I think you might be right, it IS hard to use all 7 categories and remain coherent).