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mikemarotti··on Ask HN: Did the Codespaces story ever come out fully?
Here's one, not sure if it has more details than you already know: http://searchaws.techtarget.com/news/2240223024/Code-Spaces-...
mikemarotti··on After a century on ice, a notebook sheds light on an Antarctic disaster
Does anyone know if the raw text of the page scans is available yet?
mikemarotti··on Hillbilly Tracking of Low Earth Orbit Satellites
It was on this exact blog post. But just to hear him tell the story of how he built this thing in his words was incredible.
mikemarotti··on Hillbilly Tracking of Low Earth Orbit Satellites
Travis's talk at Summercon was incredible - I shot the video for it and will hopefully (with Travis's and Mark's permission, of course) will post it soon!
mikemarotti··on How Bitcoin dies
How HackerNews Dies.
mikemarotti··on If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO
I'm curious to hear someone's response to this as well. To me, it seems like a lucky break following by a whole lot of networking.
mikemarotti··on [dead]
If you wanna play these little bullshit hiring games, you better put more money on the table.
mikemarotti··on Introducing the USB Stick of Death
Hiren's BootCD is exactly the kind of tool I've been looking for - but I can't find the download link on that page. Am I an idiot, or does he not host his own boot cd on his site?
mikemarotti··on Still no Windows Phone 8 SDK
This UI they are pushing with Metro (or whatever it's called now) is horrendous. Has nobody at Microsoft ever read a design book?
mikemarotti··on The Difficulties of Self Publicising
You're going to run into this on any social news site. Don't act surprised - it's the nature of the beast.
mikemarotti··on Ask.com buys About.com for $300M
One change to the Google SERP ranking algorithm is going to ruin their day.
mikemarotti··on Diaspora’s (YC S12) Next Act: Social Remixing Site Makr.io
It's hard to rage against you when you respond so nicely!
mikemarotti··on Diaspora’s (YC S12) Next Act: Social Remixing Site Makr.io
All of these bullshit attempts to legitimize your idea aside - if you're really sticking to your mission of making this work, you should work on not making your text captions look so lazy. It honestly looks like someone screencapping Pinterest posts and writing text captions over them in MSPaint.
mikemarotti··on Diaspora’s (YC S12) Next Act: Social Remixing Site Makr.io
This is exactly what the internet needs less of. Sad to see the diaspora guys reduced to overlaying unfunny text captions over jpgs.
mikemarotti··on Veteran NYTimes Photographer Arrested & Allegedly Beaten by NYPD
Interesting, but what does this have to do with HN?
mikemarotti··on Sal Khan responds to critic
This kinda stuff gets me fired up. Do your job, blogger!

Anyways, edited.

mikemarotti··on Sal Khan responds to critic
"As math was not my subject in school, I don't know who is right but would love to hear from mathematicians out there."

Go find a professor, you sorry excuse for a "journalist".

mikemarotti··on Congress Must Act After US Government Admits To Warrantless Wiretapping
Excuse my ignorance, but what is the end-all be-all for internet privacy? Is there any configuration that would guarantee complete anonymity? All the possible solutions I've heard of (Tor, Freenet, etc.) have security holes which allow unmasking of the end-user.
mikemarotti··on Google I/O 2012
Might as well use all that info they're collecting on you in some useful way.
mikemarotti··on Kid Automates Work, Is Fired, Hired Back, Automates Business
This is reddit nerd fan-fiction.
mikemarotti··on Diablo 3: The Blizzard sweatshop
That's exactly what this game feels like: a sweatshop. The auction house ruined all the excitement of the game for me - instead of gearing up through farming, they eliminate the "slot machine" appeal of the game by making the only way to gear up through the auction house. Basically, this means you're just running around mindlessly trying to collect as much gold as possible. I played Diablo 2 for 4 years straight; I played Diablo 3 for 2 weeks straight and shelved it. I did the same with SC2 as well... Blizzard games seem to have lost the magic for me. Obviously, I blame activision.
mikemarotti··on Nokia on the skids, analysts eye Microsoft takeover
Typo in the title. Nice.
mikemarotti··on Sen. Paul proposes bill protecting Americans from drone surveillance
I wasn't even aware this was happening. Frightening stuff.
mikemarotti··on Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be
I sure as hell ain't downloading any movies from mystery trackers.
mikemarotti··on Whistling Into a Tape Recorder: What the East Coast Doesn't Get About Startups
Absolutely, that title is just baiting. We're in the internet era now - when can we get over the east vs west or valley vs nyc rivalries? There are bad apples and fools in suits everyone in the world.
mikemarotti··on Space Station grabs SpaceX Dragon ship
I guess it's now on the frontpage of CNN but still - I haven't heard any fanfare over this and it's pretty monumental.
mikemarotti··on Space Station grabs SpaceX Dragon ship
Is it me or is this getting absolutely no press?
mikemarotti··on If You Want to Never Die, Try Augmented Reality
Blog spam.
mikemarotti··on Show HN: I made $8000 in one day on the Mac App Store
Did you actually have any angry customers contacting you who paid full price for the app?
mikemarotti··on Facebook shares hit again as valuation doubts rise
I tried to come up with an appropriate rebuttal, but you're right - it wasn't the middle class that was taken advantage of here, it was truly the "dumb money" who decided to buy a stock with a 100:1 PE ratio. Point taken.
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