ksvs

2,477 karma · joined July 18, 2008

ksvs··on Ask HN: What's the best web programming language?

there is no best language. they're all tools in a toolbox.

That's intellectual laziness masquerading as broad-mindedness. Obviously Ruby is going to be better for most web apps than Fortran.

ksvs··on YC Gets 11% of Sequoia's Frontpage

Or it could be a reference to the 3 YC startups Sequoia has already funded.

ksvs··on The Startup Myth

Too close to the bone? Seemed more like too close to trivial to me.

ksvs··on [dead]

For someone new to this business, it's impressive how you independently reinvented the googlespammer trick of using a domain name made of keywords in random order.

ksvs··on How do you recognise good programmers if you’re a business guy?

There are many, many examples

Which ones were you thinking of when you wrote this?

ksvs··on Ask HN: What's with all the trivial link spam?

He means the exclamation points. In English you don't use those except when you really want to draw attention to a sentence. Otherwise you seem crazy! See what I mean!

ksvs··on What Bruce Sterling Actually Said About Web 2.0 at Webstock 09

Ouch.

ksvs··on Why Chemical Warfare Is Ancient History

This was not poison gas. The victims were simply asphyxiated. Nor was this unique. In ancient times, fire was commonly used by armies besieging towers, and in the casese when it worked, smoke must often have flushed out or killed the defenders before flames did.

ksvs··on John Resig Talk: Performance Improvements in Browsers

function.call(object, other, params)

Can you explain what this does? It sounds interesting, but I don't know Javascript.

ksvs··on Redundant. Bored. I'm coming to SFO. Tight budget.

Knows of a reasonably priced room going, or has a spare room

You want http://airbnb.com

ksvs··on Capital Factory - Austin-based YC Style Incubator

It's better than most of the YC clones' names.

ksvs··on Congress gets bill to make cell phone cameras go click

I believe this is already the law in Japan.

ksvs··on Ask YC: Do what you love and the money will follow?

Effectively. Like all national politicians, he had the same resources at his disposal that a rich person in his country would have. His ascetic life was voluntarily so.

ksvs··on Obama Is “Failure” At Google, “Miserable Failure” At Yahoo

Interesting asymmetry. Suggests Google is harder to spam than Yahoo.

ksvs··on Sun Microsystems may lay off 6,000 today

I'm surprised they still have 6000 employees.

ksvs··on Brian Kernighan: sometimes the old ways are best

That does not seem shallow. That seems a very good algorithm for discovering good new things.

ksvs··on Live Free or Drown: Floating Utopias on the Cheap

Why would there be any fewer jobs than in any urban area?

ksvs··on The Healthiest Foods for Under $1

I'm glad to see oats at number 1, but lentils should have been number 2.

ksvs··on Evidence emerges of Israeli use of phosphorus weapons in Gaza

When Hamas kills 1100 people you can.

ksvs··on Joel Spolsky: Thanks or No Thanks

His second reward-- more valuable, since he probably will stay at Google-- was to have this article written about him.

ksvs··on Venture capitalist picked to run FCC; 10 reason Fred Wilson likes him

He was also the founder of one of the YC clones, Launchbox Digital. Wonder how this affects that?

ksvs··on Ask HN: 5-7 months of living expenses left; terrified. Advice?

Depends what kind of programming you do, but the standard method is consulting. There are a lot of people and companies with projects they need implemented, and will pay by the hour for someone to build it.

ksvs··on Ask HN: 5-7 months of living expenses left; terrified. Advice?

One thing you could start doing now is lining up potential alternative jobs. You could even start working part-time somewhere else. One good thing about startups is that they can be flexible about things like that. And the founders who recruited you can hardly blame you.

ksvs··on All trains in Norway to stop for 2 minutes to protest Gaza invasion

I can only guess, but my hypothesis is that the level of protest is proportionate to the number of deaths. How many people did the rockets kill?

ksvs··on Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

http://www.google.com/products?q=sunscreen+packets&oe=ut...

ksvs··on Hacker News doesn't validate

Try Bureaucrat News.

ksvs··on Survival tips if you find yourself in the Middle Ages?

"Government officials had the power to scrape up dried urine from beneath the boarded floors of Stuart stables because it contained saltpetre, a vital ingredient of gunpowder."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PAL/is_/ai_n15630934

ksvs··on The Ultimate Bubble?

This article is dated February 2009. It's still 2008. Print is so messed up...

ksvs··on Rails and Merb Merge

Hmmm.

http://www.benchmark.com/news/sv/2008/10_21_2008.php

ksvs··on Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley

Of course not. After-tax returns influence them indirectly. Fellow grad student goes to work for a startup, ends up with a house vs merely a nice car.

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