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> (Yes it's a bad design)

Exactly my point. This whole site strikes me as programmer hubris.

Et voila!

http://imgur.com/RluUCMn

What? Why? Is this a bug? It seems like their system is working great. It just gives bad advice.

I'm legitimately confused. Is this supposed to compete with or replace healthcare.gov? I just ran an insurance search for a hypothetical Californian couple, late fifties, with an income of $60K. CoveredCalifornia found me plans with a monthly premium of $127/month (including assistance) while the cheapest HealthSherpa premium is $879/month.

Is HealthSherpa really helping or are they just capitalizing on the huge IT/PR snafu that is healthcare.gov?

I mean, isn't it entirely fucked up that HealthSherpa directs me to "Call Western at (888) 227-5942" without knowing that I'm eligible for government assistance?

edit: a word

Because it's such a maddeningly blatant shill post which, out of context, would be considered the worst type of spam: a single link to a "Find hidden hot cruise deals" site.

And in the context of the post it's not much better. You know where I like to work? From the deck of a cruise ship! No shit, I'd love to be on a cruise ship too.

"You know where I like to code? From the beaches of Aruba!" Followed up by a link to an Aruba travel deals site. No.

Extended rant: my frustration equally applies to Tynan's post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416 - nothing personal per se, save for the obviousness of the article I ham-handedly parodied above.

These class of ex post facto blog posts authored solely for self promotion seem like the bread and butter of HN. He build a website to sell cruise ship deals and now he _really_ wants everyone to know how great it is to [insert relevant occupation] from the deck of a cruise ship.

I really need to start thinking of HN as "Hustler News" instead of "Hacker News" I think it'd alleviate the cognitive dissonance I got going on.

1) Post fluff blog post about how cruises are great places to work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416. Get upvoted.

2) Follow up with link to the website you built to find cruise deals.

3) Profit.

How much are you making off this, Kirubakaran?

Michael Bernstein had a great talk on Distributed Systems Archaeology at RICON West yesterday. Video coming soon, but here are the notes:

https://speakerdeck.com/mrb/distributed-systems-archaeology

Oh FFS, if this were "Ask HN: What are the hottest startups in The Valley right now?" it would be summarily ignored.

At least I hope.

Other cool RMS hacks: http://www.stallman.org/photos/hacks/

I guess.

This may be the referenced thread:

https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/20...

An HR article with broad emotional appeal! It's like opening a fortune cookie and reading, "You are destined for great things."

Of course we're all too smart for our jobs!

© Human Workplace 2013

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Interesting. I've always thrown in with the hacker crowd, but everything about this PR stunt has led me to believe speakeasy.is the type of business I want nothing to do with.

The laws this thread contends they're violating strike me as falling into the category of public safety, e.g. proper labeling of spirits, Department of Health guidelines (http://blog.speakeasy.is/day/2013/07/23), etc. Viscerally, these don't strike me as the type of laws we want to championing start-ups into breaking.

But fuck laws, right? What really kills me about these guys is that they represent the cancer that is killing HN - all hustle, no authenticity. Instead of coordinating with local distilleries for a co-promotion event they fill Ikea bottles with "a cheap, mass-produced Russian vodka" and stick a fake label on the side. This is the definition of "grey-hat SEO 'growth hackers.'"

"The video was viewed 500 times, almost entirely by people in Las Vegas according to the analytics. It was a huge hit, and we thought we left a pretty good impression.

(Except with the department of health, hah!)"

http://imgur.com/QV4EYpx

lolwut. I wonder how many people are submitting this blog post to ATFtips@atf.gov just for the lulz.

By all appearances this is a trickle of links vaguely related to web development. Thanks for sharing?

edit: I'd be more interested in how you're using ifttt, pinboard, and wordpress to generate the site.

Oh my gosh! You're right! I should have known that from the ample context provided in the post and linked page!

"Ben Schwartz (born September 15, 1981)[2] is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He is perhaps best known for portraying a fictional version of himself..."

Oh wait, no? Well, his twitter links to some Magic the Gathering site. Oh, he's a "Product Quality Associate" at Google (thanks LinkedIn!)

Wait, why do I care?

"Glass has a packaging so slick and gorgeous it makes you feel like you’re unboxing an Apple product"

Ha! So much for Google setting their own precedent on quality.

Google is shooting themselves in the foot appealing to reviewer's worst sense of self-importance. Concierge service and complementary Champagne?

And these reviews! They're so painfully rote: wifi-bluetooth-battery-life-sucks-now-you-can-check-your-email-in-the-middle-of-a-conversation-needs-more-iterations-here-are-some-shitty-pictures-of-a-buffet.

Is this really the future?

I know for a fact that this is how Microsoft gets all of their office furniture.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

What, uh, is missing from the One that you would expect out of a gaming console?

I think you have to abandon the premise that the XBox One is primarily a games console. That, and a whole host of other assumptions like watching "TV" on your television; who watches television anymore? Nobody I know even has cable.

Guide to Starting a (Really) Successful Business:

Step 1: Start a successful business.

Step 2: Use the money from step one to start your really successful business.

Step 3: Profit

I imagine a future where instead of running the gauntlet of clipboard wielding public researchers, it'll be pseudo-entrepreneurs hawking their herp-derp OS app.

Path gained quite a bit of attention when this happened: https://www.google.com/search?q=path+upload+contacts

And the FTC policing COPPA isn't really new either: https://www.google.com/search?q=coppa+violation+cases

Shopper prioritization application (http://www.akamai.com/dl/feature_sheets/Akamai_Shopper_Prior...).

Linked to a page which displays one of four random mp4s which refreshes once every thirty seconds via a meta refresh.

Magic!

Less experienced workers are typically cheaper because they're less productive. You may luck out hiring a super-productive, recent graduate on the cheap, but they'll quickly learn their worth.

Your second point sounds purely anecdotal. My experience has shown just the opposite; older developers with families are much more committed because...well...they have families to support.

I don't understand the vitriol aimed at the recruiter. Any developer in the Bay Area with a LinkedIn account gets a dozen of these a week.

The author just isn't interested in working at a start-up, but god forbid he receive a recruiting email from one.

I'd take a different tack: your early twenties is a perfect fucking time to try working a start up. No mortgage, no kids; why not take the risk?

Instead you should what...take a 9-5 so you can have a life outside of work, so you can work on your side project instead of working at a start up.

Also, attending conferences isn't "professional development."

As an employee, knowing this only costs the company $5.00, this wouldn't even register in my "total compensation" calculations. I mean, it would be like them sliding the offer letter over the table and saying with a wink, "Annnnnd we'll buy you a double venti latte every month. Unbelievable, right?"

And don't get me started on actually trying to navigate these group buying offers. Every time I've tried to redeem one you're shunted off to some obscure buy flow: "Oh, you'll need to talk to our corporate accounts representative, do you have your company contract id?"

And to get a little meta here for a second: how lazy is ez-pr.com that they just link to their half-assed Google Spreadsheet. Or for that matter, how lazy is Business Insider that they just regurgitate this PR crap. And why are we even linking to this low-effort content?