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johnnyfivedon Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? (May 2018)

Do you only consider projects that already have users and have gone public? For me I have a working proof-of-concept and infrastructure for a good business, but it's something that I'm only able to work on in my spare free time, having other contracting obligations.

johnnyfivedon NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A Lie From Google'

Thanks for posting those references.

There are clearly at least a few different problems going on here in NPR and the general workflow of top-tier journalism today. If you can publish a story, you shouldn't just be able to retract it willy nilly. If you can retract anything you publish, then what's the point of having standards for publication in the first place?

johnnyfivedon Pulitzer Prize Winners Moving to PR: What Does That Say About Future Journalism?

You can downvote on here?

johnnyfivedon How North Korea’s Hackers Became Dangerously Good

Wtf. And why even include the name in the first place? Literally no good would have come from that in a story like this. If you must refer to a name use a pseudonym.

This really subtly shows one of the darkest sides of journalism, especially considering it's coming from the WSJ. The engagement of the audience and ad revenue is so important that protecting sources and journalistic integrity is so easily forgotten by the author and editors.

johnnyfivedon Random Darknet Shopper: A Live Mail Art Piece

Different perspective / explanation:

Coffee works and tastes better while on other drugs.

johnnyfivedon Cat purr genrator

The design of that website is really great.

johnnyfivedon ProjectM – Open Source Music Visualizer

I don't think it's open source but this is easily the best visualizer I've ever used, in terms of graphics and simplicity in usage. And it's free.

http://www.plane9.com/

johnnyfivedon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)

Bold move.

johnnyfivedon A collection of things that are Turing-complete by accident (2013)

Still counts since he managed to create the working method to inject the code which allows the game to be Turing complete. A medium with no way of entering or traveling through it isn't really a medium.

johnnyfivedon Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley

Sorry you lost your job at Gawker.

johnnyfivedon Astrophotographer Spots Elon Musk's Roadster Cruising Through Space [video]

Not only that, it's purposefully written in a way that minimizes direct references to the original blog post, to make it seem as though Space.com actually took the time to do the interviews or any investigating for their research.

This quote from the article that quoted the astronomer makes it seem like they were the ones who took his statement personally, instead of ripping it off from his blog post.

"Andreo spent hours trying to figure out why he couldn't find it before giving up and heading home. 'By 5:15 a.m., I felt it was enough. Twilight was coming soon, plus I wanted to avoid the rush hour traffic back home, so I packed and left,' he wrote."

This is extremely slimy.

johnnyfivedon Show HN: Web scraping page analyzer

It's great that you're communicating openly on HN.

I just sent an application for the Junior Web Developer position.

Looking forward to hearing back!

johnnyfivedon GPU Hoarding: ‘I Felt Like I Was Buying Drugs’

Yikes I know. What a juxtaposition between an "edgy" headline ("felt like I was buying drugs") and one of the most mundane opening sentences in journalism I've ever read ("James Liska finally spotted a reasonably priced computer-graphics card online. By the time he clicked “buy,” it was gone.").