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zackattackon New Reddit CEO reporting for duty

Is Quora going to get the recruiter fee?

zackattackon Linux From Scratch 7.1 Published - 3.2.6 Kernel + GCC 4.6.2

> Worth it in many ways.

Can you elaborate? Part of my everyday life as a coder is downloading packages and building them, so I'm curious how this brings more to the table. I flipped through the book (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/7.1/) and couldn't tell..

zackattackon Google Play

jrockway, you're projecting.

zackattackon NLP Class is live

Can't wait for a data structures class. And then, for an operating systems class.

zackattackon 4 Years of HN Traffic

Can WA parse this image into a function of time?

zackattackon MITx First Course "6.002x Circuits and Electronics" is Live

would be nice to see a syllabus on the home page

zackattackon What HN users don't mean to be

Dude I honestly dream of some real time text parsing that seriously adds value to the quality of the conversation and moment. One of my goals is to make this for CompassionPit but I'd much rather get a killer solution from a 3rd party. I'd definitely pay for it too -- definitely at least $100/month.

zackattackon Ask HN: Help a Hacker Out

Hit me up when you're in SF; we can reminisce about Eckhart Hall.

zackattackon [dead]

I thought your judgmental tone was totally inappropriate and definitely didn't serve the cause of "acceptance"; in other words, I don't buy it.

zackattackon [dead]

Sorry, but did he really quote from the new testament, or was it instead the ramblings of "God"? I have a special academic interest in schizophrenia; btw, Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind is a fantastic read.

zackattackon Teller Reveals His Secrets

> With this trick the viewers are distracted enough to fail to realize that they've selected the same person with the continuation of same agenda every single time.

And what agenda is this?

zackattackon MailerJS: Send email with client-side JavaScript

not exactly, but there are approximations like http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/

zackattackon MailerJS: Send email with client-side JavaScript

That's a worse user experience, though.

How? Worse than what?

zackattackon MailerJS: Send email with client-side JavaScript

I agree, it's overpriced. I would rather just put a snippet in that tracked javascript errors somehow, and also grabbed all of the user's browser information etc. And bonus points if it takes a screenshot (doable with HTML5) and copies over everything from console.log. Would really help with debugging.

P.S. They should have put the pricing information on the home page. Didn't realize they were a YC company either.

zackattackon The Problem with Facebook Connect

>"We will never publish anything to your timeline without your direct permission "

I tried (a variant of this) for a client and it boosted conversion rate by 10%. Huge.

zackattackon Berkeley Computer Vision Class

It's one of the classes I regret not taking in college, so I signed up. But I remember hardly anything from my Linear Algebra -- and I never really developed an intuition for the grand significance of, say, eigenvalues.

zackattackon Steve Blank releases updated book

There's always custdev.com, the "cliff notes" edition, which I liked. But it covers the first chapters.

But deep down, I'm looking for step by step instructions. Standing on the shoulders of giants, someone will eventually write it.

zackattackon Jobseekers Invited to “Apply Via API”

console.log statements

zackattackon Curebit (YC W11) Raises $1.2 Million For Online Referral System

>Stealing a design outright, on the other hand, is not growing or improving or adopting a concept (e.g. "contact management that tracks deals", "it should x when you y") but their actual IP.

Can you cite legislation within the US, or a successful civil suit?

zackattackon Google's "free food" is not free

I dunno; with inflation, it seems that I can easily spend $10 per meal. Maybe $15, and if I eat generous portions, $20. Seriously-- in San Francisco, it's not unreasonable to expect someone to spend $20 for a meal. Now consider all the extra convenience fees... $60/day (or $50/day) is not unreasonable. Of course, since it's a corporate perk, it should get a discount rate applied... but all the same, it's still valuable: more than $15/day (come on, dude: $5 a meal? Get real, or move away from North Dakota).

zackattackon I'll tell you why movie revenue is dropping...

The Rialto in El Cerrito serves beer and will bring food in to you.. It's quite a fun experience!

zackattackon Suster: Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

I'm having a hard time coming up with a case where a platform /product achieved scale (in the age of modern advertising), yet couldn't monetize. Which ones can you think of?

zackattackon Elon Musk is pushing the human race forward

The sheepish feeling about app development made me think of Buckminster Fuller's Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth:

"For every 100,000 employed in research and development, or just plain thinking, one probably will make a breakthrough that will more than pay for the other 99,999 fellowships".

zackattackon Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders

Being interested in social topology, I wonder if there's a parallel here to election/predestination; anyone else see it?

zackattackon A Case Against Using CoffeeScript

You can set up your IDE to automatically run your code through JSLint or JSHint, which will detect such errors.

zackattackon The Hushed Dangers of Startup Depression

These sorts of pressures are the reason that I made http://www.CompassionPit.com - a site where you can chat anonymously, 1-1, with someone who will listen to you. Just join as a venter. Or, if you're feeling charitable, join as a listener. "Get it off your chest without it biting you in the ass".

zackattackon Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston

I agree. I also think he was trolling. Though he may have used it as an opportunity to set social pressure against people leaving Facebook.

zackattackon Allegations of past and present Internet crime haunt Airbnb co-founder

Aaron Greenspan, hater extraordinaire.

zackattackon Codify: native coding environment for iPad

Classic sign of disruption. Feels like a toy, looks like a toy. Just not good enough.

zackattackon Aaron Sorkin asked by Sony to pen Steve Jobs biopic.

>Is this something where Jobs' family would have to give permission?

I was under the impression that Mark Zuckerberg did not explicitly endorse the Facebook movie.