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kirbyk

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Engineer at MongoDB.

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kirbyk··on Let’s continue to build Product Hunt, together
Me too.
kirbyk··on Ask HN: Why is Facebook Messenger so unstable?
I don't know, but facebook.com seems to be down.
kirbyk··on Lyft Plus
Wow, that video told me nothing.
kirbyk··on Poll: what smartphone do you use as your primary smartphone?
I wonder how these results compare to the user-agent analytics of hacker news.
kirbyk··on App.net State of the Union
Did this surprise anyone?
kirbyk··on Invoice Ninja
Your site has downloaded 25 invoice pdf's to my computer automatically. Not functional.
kirbyk··on How to Get Smarter, Be More Productive, and Do Everything with Zero Effort
Tim Ferriss would disagree with every premise in this article.
kirbyk··on To close or not to close – Void HTML elements
Fantastic article. And god I love this website's design.
kirbyk··on Zero-Commission Stock Trading App RobinHood Kicks Off Private Beta
I still don't have access.
kirbyk··on Bossman: tmux-backed shell for your OS X menu bar
What would be an example of what I'd use this for? Also it would be nice if I could send interrupts.
kirbyk··on Anybody else hating web fonts lately?
Hmm. I've never noticed such. Does anyone have any good examples?
kirbyk··on Startup advice and the clarity of experience
Did anyone notice Dustin's use of the words Obvious and Subtle? Considering that Medium, a competitor to Dustin's Svtle is owned by Obivous Co. Dustin always impresses me with his svbtleties.
kirbyk··on You might not need jQuery
jQuery's overhead is so minimal. Also, virtually every example of pure js was more verbose. jQueries selectors alone is such a great selling point.
kirbyk··on Svbtle now open to the public
I agree. I think Dustin has a lot left to show.
kirbyk··on Ask HN: Sick of your bank? Want to build a open source, non-profit, online bank?
Most credit unions in the US are, but I think situation outside of the US isn't the same. Europe doesn't have credit union alliances like - http://www.allianceone.coop
kirbyk··on Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
Purdue has a similar OS, Xinu, that was created for teaching. It is actually used in industry around the world. - http://www.xinu.cs.purdue.edu/
kirbyk··on Show HN: Gmail.js – JavaScript API for Gmail
You probably know more about Gmail then you ever wanted to, right?
kirbyk··on Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt
Why can't we scale this? Why aren't there nonforprofit's that allow people to donate and alleviate peoples debt?
kirbyk··on Meteor in Production
"If you need video streams like CodersTV. All of these are built with Meteor and are awesome examples of things you can build."

I need video streams in Meteor. Show me where.

kirbyk··on Stay away from Digital Ocean
How was OP supposed to take responsibility for a compromised server without access to the server?
kirbyk··on Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox
If you guys are storing this data in Firebase, then the next logical step is a native mobile app, likely iOS. What's the timeframe for such?
kirbyk··on Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox
2 problems?
kirbyk··on Sparkey – Key/value storage by Spotify
This goes to prove that simple is fast.
kirbyk··on 40 Emails, 2 Tweets, and an Interview: How I Landed an Internship With GaryVee
Do you think he didn't respond to the original email because it was "short game" as Gary would say? There is an element of quid pro quo however.
kirbyk··on Ask HN: I'm an engineer, how do I learn design?
How have I never heard of Easel.io?? I just did the demo. Blown away.
kirbyk··on Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo
I actually just installed Firefox for that. Totally worth it.
kirbyk··on Startups That Rejected $100M Offers
Mark Zuckerberg was offered $1 billion dollars from Yahoo. After offered the money Mark and Peter Thiel (investor) had a talk about the offer. Marks comment was "obviously we're not going to sell here." Peter didn't feel the same way. Today Peter is very grateful Mark didn't sell. Mark had a vision for FB that Yahoo didn't, and he knew that if he sold he would never see his vision come true.