Hacker News Reader

gringomorcegoon Google Says Some Apple Inventions Are So Great They Ought to Be Shared

Does anyone really think about how our grandchildren will look at these patent issues today?

'Tell us again about the dark times when people were scared to share algorithms and concepts!'

gringomorcegoon Bold plan: opening 1,000 MHz of federal spectrum to WiFi-style sharing

2.2GBPS

gringomorcegoon How to say nothing in 500 words

Because how are people supposed to know you are making a subjective/qualitative judgement? It's too easy to mislead people, and too many people profit from taking advantage of that.

A true argument can stand on its own.

gringomorcegoon Microsoft Open Sources their Entity Framework ORM

If anything I'd bet that the 'fiefdoms' have quit warring as much?

gringomorcegoon The secret hiring of Marissa Mayer: How Yahoo kept it all under wraps.

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-apple-go...

Until those companies apologize to every existing employee, I have absolutely no loyalty to them.

If they can't even let the free market decide the value of the programmer why should I have any fucking allegiance to any of them?

I can only hope she and others get the competitive salary they deserve.

gringomorcegoon An iPad Lover’s Take On The Nexus 7

Never fight on the enemy's ground.

gringomorcegoon MineCraftWebGL

Ah, wrote before the edit.

gringomorcegoon MineCraftWebGL

Seriously, what the hell is the point of even creating something like webgl if a key feature for immersion is kept out?

It's like building a car starting with the frame.

God speed to whoever is fighting the good fight on those frigging w3c boards.

gringomorcegoon How Stress And Sleep Loss Are Shortening Your Life

I used to have that opinion.

Than I realized I'd do anything if it helped me enjoy life more.

I mean honestly, when my sleep starts getting shitty I start changing things in my life. Quitting jobs, taking breaks from relationships, creating new ones, trying new programming languages, anything.

Burnout can be fucking terrible, and I will give up every possession I have before I endure that again.

gringomorcegoon Judge Posner: U.S. patent system out of sync

This prisoner's dilemma has one round with different rewards.

Also, don't correct people with 'you do realize' because it makes you seem like an asshole.

gringomorcegoon Judge Posner: U.S. patent system out of sync

Patents and IP protection are a sovereign prisoner's dilemma.

Good luck with that, USA.

gringomorcegoon Who's the Boss? There Isn't One

I thought they were working on it, but they have done a massive amount rewrites?

gringomorcegoon I work for The Internet now

Very interesting.

Reading this stuff kind of makes my heart swell up. For anyone who reads cypherpunk stuff knows, this is the techno nomadic dream.

No big corp, no real worry about money, just sharing with the community.

gringomorcegoon Professional Starcraft Team releases documentary with pay-what-you-want model

Dude, that kind of thinking leads you down to 7 Pounds.

gringomorcegoon PayPal Bans BitTorrent Friendly VPN Provider

Uh, so it's okay for the US to wink wink at Amazon, Paypal and numerous other financial payment providers when Wikileaks comes to play?

You sound like a true apologist. This stuff matters, it affects people's lives, and it it has NOTHING to do with ROI. That's a bunch of BS.

This has to do with favors and stancing and has absolutely nothing to do with profitability or providing a service.

I'll show myself the door when I hear about how many chargebacks the VPN was getting.

gringomorcegoon Cue: The 10 hour scramble to launch two days early

Hey, as long as they have founder shares, im all for whatever your gung-ho routine entails

gringomorcegoon Bye Bye Craigslist

One depends on a spellchecker?

gringomorcegoon Cue: The 10 hour scramble to launch two days early

Putting up with that shit is fine when you have founders shares. If you don't, then get ready to clock out and iron the hawaiian shirt. Expecting the engineers to just deal with this is prebuscent.

gringomorcegoon Cue: The 10 hour scramble to launch two days early

anyone want a dish with ad hominem and a sprinkling of superiority?

You're right, moe probably hasn't shipped anything. I haven't either.

But that doesn't mean that it's okay for you guys to treat engineers like this. Because one of them might just realize how undervalued and mistreated they are, and think about starting their own comapany...

gringomorcegoon Secure Boot: Who will control your next computer?

well, it's not like anyone has made a real effort to stop it...

gringomorcegoon Israeli Startup Map. Amazing concentration. The next Silicon Valley?

You don't need a visa to stay in Puerto Rico.

gringomorcegoon Israeli Startup Map. Amazing concentration. The next Silicon Valley?

Why do Americans require a Visa to stay there?

gringomorcegoon Julian Assange Seeks Asylum In Ecuador Embassy

Hahahahahahahaha.

Guess what Bill Keller also wrote?

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/08/opinion/the-i-can-t-believ...

gringomorcegoon Julian Assange Seeks Asylum In Ecuador Embassy

"Sweden's justice system really isn't corrupt."

http://falkvinge.net/2011/09/05/cable-reveals-extent-of-lapd...

Wah wah.

gringomorcegoon Why Silicon Valley Tech Wunderkinds Overestimate Their Own Smarts and Abilities

I think most people are afraid to admit how much of their success is attributable to luck and being the right man in the wrong place.

gringomorcegoon Why Silicon Valley Tech Wunderkinds Overestimate Their Own Smarts and Abilities

Hey man, don't question the established order.

Remember, it's a luxury to pander to a VC.

Bootstrapping is only for those dirty proles.

gringomorcegoon Jam - The JavaScript package manager

is there a point to using this outside of node.js and npm? I'm not a big js person btw.

gringomorcegoon How I Store My 1's and 0′s: ZFS + Bargain HP Microserver = Joy

I've heard that the perormance of linux zfs is terrible, but I think it was a phoronix report...

Also, does anyone know how well dtrace was ported to linux? Last thing I remember reading said it was half-assed

gringomorcegoon G-WAN - Web Application Server

I'm sincerley interested in the ycombinator response.

I found out about this after searching for nginx/apache alternaitives, and it seems to domeinate everything except the ram usage of nginx.

gringomorcegoon Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers

True enough. But how many hours of life has ie sucked from developers? I mean ms purposefully held back the development of multiple internet standards, they deserve what they get imho, ideals or not.