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booopon Why Yahoo Couldn’t Adapt to the Smartphone Era

Further evidence that the new yorker is where one goes to find finely written bullshit.

booopon Funding Django is not an act of charity, it's an investment

Can we see the Django Software Foundation's latest Form 990?

booopon Ask HN: Your Passive Income Suggestions?

Start a company. Hire a hardworking and dependable general manager on a salary and give him/her great autonomy.

Sit back and enjoy the dividends.

booopon Dear GitHub

So happy to see you acknowledge the performance issues. You'd do everyone a great favor when you make it happen!

booopon Firefox OS Pivot to Connected Devices

Sigh.. Just let it die and move on.

booopon Nebia (YC S15), a Shower Head Start-Up, Receives Funding from Tim Cook of Apple

YC seems to have taken in a lot of unusual startups this year.

booopon Scientists have synthesized a new compound that ‘mimics’ exercise

Don't have much to say about how the compound affects your metabolism, but I'm weary of any kind of 'workout pill'. For years I too hoped that were would be some machine or pill that would automatically get me ripped without having to put in the conscious effort. However, once I finally got into the habit of exercising, I think what was more valuable than the results on my body was the habit of pushing myself to the limit every time and going beyond my comfort zone. It's something that touches everything you do.

booopon Tech Firm Ubiquiti Suffers $46M Cyberheist

At my company any email request like that is verified by a phone call. (Don't know if that would have helped here).

booopon USA tops International Math Olympiad for first time in 21 years

I can't believe the audacity of Po-Shen Loh to send a team exclusively of boys to the IMO. When you have to select 6 team members how can you NOT select at least 1 female? This flies in the face of all the outreach work people have been doing to get more girls into STEM, and this victory will only discourage them. It appears the top 3 teams are all 100% boys.

I'm delighted that this is currently the top comment here. It shows we are clearly concerned with the right issues. I hope from now on all national teams participating in international competitions will be gender balanced. In order to remedy this situation we need:

   1) A Twitter mob
   2) An email campaign addressed Po-Shen to not repeat this and discredit his work and efforts. 
   3) A post of the team's picture to the popular twitter/tumblr account which shames all male conferences and gatherings 
   4) An email campaign addressed to IMO to implement rules that all teams should be gender balanced.
   5) A solution to Poe's law.

booopon Yves Behar: Industrial Designer in Silicon Valley

Clickbait title.

A lot of what he's designed aren't exactly gadgets. And personally I think Jonathan Ive is a more suitable candidate for the title of "the man" behind SV's "most beautiful gadgets"

booopon Ask HN: Is anyone interested in Node.js based alternative to Magento?

Over here, you will find people interested in a node.js alternative to anything.

booopon Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO

It's kind of sad and ironic to see his career take such a beating with what he helped create.

booopon Why I'm Boycotting Mozilla Products

> CEOs have to be leaders, and their personal views, separate or not, are very relevant to their ability to lead.

Utter nonsense. CEOs can have personal and professional lives, just like anyone else. Eich may have opposed gay marriage but this doesn't seem to have affected any policy at Mozilla. Those going crazy over this are only insecure.

booopon [dead]

Seems like arstechnica can't stop churning out shitty articles about this. But anyway, RIP Mozilla.

booopon Introducing Michael Abrash, Oculus Chief Scientist

I'm excited about these two working together, but this now reminds of when Zynga hired many industry titans.

booopon Brendan Eich becomes Mozilla CEO

Congrats to Eich!

And, has everyone here gone insane? Personally I hold Eugenic racist homophobic neo-nazis to a higher regard than those who view forgiveness and moving on as something that should never be done.

booopon Nothing Focuses The Mind Like The Ultimate Deadline: Death

How long has this been working out for you? I think after a while you'd be unable to trick yourself into believing it.

booopon My Experience in the Educational Apps Market – 2013 report

If you'll only spend your time working on a product for some niche that no one has found, you'll end up with nothing. Competition is inevitable, so it's best to face it and never fear it.

booopon Sexism and Tech and Love

"I felt like there were a thousand challenges I had to face alone, that no one else could see. I was usually the only woman where I worked, and I felt so isolated. More than anything else, what I found myself really wanting was for someone to say “I see how difficult it is, and you’re doing a great job. Just keep going.”

Sorry, but it looks like the poster would be unhappy in a number of professions, not just tech. As a manager you're happy when team members come to you to talk about results, not like "I want you to know how difficult and complex this is. It's not done yet, but I'm breaking my balls and I want you to notice how difficult I'm finding it".

booopon Why are you still building consumer apps? Enterprise pays 4x more

In my experience SMBs are a much bigger cash cow than enterprises.

booopon Single-Sex vs. Coed: The Evidence

> I would like the article to answer this: how well do the kids in the single-sex schools do later on in life ...

A little googling led me to this article about a study which looked at the same:

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/graduates-of-all-girls-...

And what I thought would be of interest to us here:

In an indication of greater, though still low, interest in the field of engineering, alumnae of single-sex independent schools are three times more likely than those from coeducational independent schools to report that they intend to pursue a career in engineering (4.4 percent vs. 1.4 percent).

booopon 404 - File not found

That was depressing, and the way the text comes up made it even worse.

booopon From 0 to Startup: How We Made $70,000 in Revenue in Our First 6 Months – Part 1

Yes. I co-founded a business that:

    1) Had a few competitors 
    2) Had web savvy customers 
    3) Had non web savvy providers

So with a nice website and a small adwords budget ($10 per day), we got $500,000 in orders in 4 weeks.

And if you're curious ... We install floor and wall tiles in the bathrooms of large hotels. Everyone laughs at our faces when we tell them what it's about.

booopon YouTube Blocks Game Videos, Industry Offers Help

Is Google deliberately trying to kill off Youtube?

booopon No Man’s Sky Is A Huge Procedurally Generated Sci-Fi Exploration Sim

In my experience if you have an Apple computer and you want to play demanding games it's better to have windows installed in a separate partition.

The performance difference for some cross platform games is huge (around 30 - 40% slower on OSX).

booopon Bitcoin value dives after China banks ban

Premature reporting by aljazeera. There was an even bigger dive a few days ago but it shot back up after hitting 840.

booopon Go 1.2

Has anyone combined Go and angular.js to build something? How were your results?

booopon Our biggest gripes with OS X Mavericks

The past couple of years have seen some major fuckups in the desktop OS space for usability.

Windows 8, and now this. Although this is no where near as bad.

booopon Magnus Carlsen is World Chess Champion

Chess champions come and go, but why would Magnus becoming the champion affect the game any differently than his predecessors?

booopon From a Frat Social Network to a GPU Compiler for Hadoop

Great read, and ParallelX looks great too.