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novascorpioon The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998

One of my favorite throwback sites that's still up is https://www.kfc.com/. 2006 isn't that old, but it's still hilarious.

novascorpioon Ask HN: Should I work at a startup?

I think you need to know things about both yourself and the company before you can make a decision like this.

Questions about yourself: * Are you willing to sacrifice your free time and family time for your job?

* Can you get things done, even if it's not so clean?

* When crunch mode hits, how will you keep yourself centered? (e.g. exercise)

Questions about the company:

* What is the expected work schedule, and does it fit your life?

* How are they funded, do they have a revenue stream?

* What is the 1, 3, and 5 year plan for the company?

* Does your compensation include equity?

Hope this helps,

Matthew

novascorpioon The impact of a terminal

burgerbrain - You're right in that I use many of these terms literally interchangably.

You're right about ctrl+arrow being a bash feature (confirmed using xterm) - thanks!

What I was trying to get across in the article is that the entire emulator/shell/tty is a package and people are quite particular about theirs.

novascorpioon Chrome: Playing the browser game for keeps

I think a lot of these comments are interesting. Perhaps chrome's versioning is not made apparent to the user, but I'm sure all of their competitors know what is going on.

Regarding anti-trust: Anti-trust laws are laws that are intended to prevent monopolistic measures. I posit in the article that by controlling both the client (chrome) and server (Google Docs, in addition to GMail, Google Search, et al) that Google is in a unique position to perform monopolistic actions. I'm not the only one that thinks Google may be doing something nefarious either - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/ftc-launchin... .