bingaman
Re:YC's Winter Reading List
on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @03:45PM (#13118166)
To make us feel better about collaborating with authoritarians
Re:Bank of America website disrupted for 4th day in a row
on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @01:37PM (#3071949)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/business/banks-to-make-cus...
Because fuck you, that's why.
Re:Penny Saver
on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @12:38PM (#2734661)
The processing fee is if you don't get a gift certificate. I usually get an Amazon gift certificate for 100% of my coins value.
Re:Floating +Pool would let New Yorkers swim in the river
on Friday June 24, 2011 @03:07PM (#2693458)
It can be all that bad, many rivers are basically sewers.
Re:iCloud’s Real Purpose is to Kill Windows
on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @01:03PM (#2629940)
Hahahaha
Re:24in60.com: The last 24 hours in 60-second, unbiased news bites.
on Friday May 13, 2011 @11:51AM (#2545037)
The feed isn't even full text.
Re:Pasting in command line Vim doesn't have to suck
on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @10:38AM (#2532615)
On a mac, you can use :r !pbpaste
If you're ssh'd somewhere it's a different story. I've seen some things about sharing clipboards across shells, but I've never bothered to set it up.
Also, copy-pasta makes for bad code.
Re:When Facebook got my Mom fuming with anger
on Thursday April 21, 2011 @01:48PM (#2471544)
Welcome to the internet.
Re:Fashion 2.0: Social Curation Start-ups Target Fashion Industry
on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @01:06PM (#2467431)
Filter? See also: You Are Not a Curator http://newcurator.com/2010/03/you-are-not-a-curator/
Re:A drug dealer on economists' theories about drug dealing
on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @10:45PM (#2465055)
Not just a drug dealer, but Freeway Ricky Ross, who arguably helped invent crack whose cocaine supplier was the Nicarguan Contras, the CIA-funded army of Iran-Contra fame. I love Planet Money, but I wish they'd gone a little deeper into his involvement with the contras. If you want to know more look into Gary Webb's series, Dark Alliance. The restored site is here: http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/start.htm
Re:The Death of the Feed (what I read and why)
on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @05:01PM (#2439268)
I love getting articles like this in my RSS feed. I agree that RSS hit a wall in terms of adoption, but it's still the most efficient way to read.
Re:Pentadactyl, improved vim bindings for Firefox
on Monday April 11, 2011 @11:22PM (#2435713)
I've used both, and I found that Pentadactyl was MUCH faster. In addition, it handles passthrough keys more sensibly. Vimperator required a plugin, pentadactyl uses the passkeys setting.
My pentadactylrc: https://github.com/bingaman/dotfiles/blob/master/pentadactyl...
Re:Ask HN: What colleges out there have good web design degrees?
on Monday April 04, 2011 @11:59AM (#2407067)
My advice: don't get a degree in web design. DO go to college and learn about something you're interested in (or just go to figure out what you're interested in!). College should not be vocational training, no matter what your parents or counselors imply. Take the time to think really hard about things that have no bearing on the 'real world'. Keep designing websites (there will be plenty of opportunities) and build a portfolio. The best people practicing what you're interested are working and sharing what they learn online - not through academic institutions.
Some of the interactive design programs out there do look pretty good (SVA, for one - though that's postgrad).
(PS - I struggled with this 10 years ago and ended up getting degrees in computer science and graphic design. Anything I learned about 'web design' was totally useless by the time I was working, and I had taught myself basically everything I used day to day. However, the fundamentals of graphic design and CS do not change.)
Re:Time-saving tips for Linux
on Thursday March 24, 2011 @11:18AM (#2364413)
Quick ssh and and start screen:
function s() { ssh $1 -t screen -dRR }
Re:How I Lost $100 and Blamed It On cal(1)
on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @09:51PM (#2357535)
And how would you suggest printing the calendar for the year 8?
Re:Man living off Groupons for one year breaks a New York start-up’s w...
on Monday March 21, 2011 @10:09PM (#2352671)
I wouldn't brag about a simple import breaking your site.
Re:HBGary planned to "blow the balls off Nmap"
on Friday March 11, 2011 @09:59PM (#2315834)
What is the correct terminology?
Re:Twitter to developers: no new Twitter clients
on Friday March 11, 2011 @05:13PM (#2315128)
Identi.ca: http://identi.ca
Status.net: http://status.net
Re:Multitasking
on Friday March 04, 2011 @04:45PM (#2289930)
I think that in some ways the general trend has been toward you working for your computer instead of your computer working for you. Personally, I get a lot done during the day that I don't even have to think about because I put a little bit of time into setting up some cron scripts a long time ago. I still count that toward things I'm getting done. Without being able to background apps, it's something that's seriously missing from iOS (please correct me if I'm wrong).
Re:Bittorrent over Tor isn't a good idea
on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @10:53AM (#2279935)
Unix pipelines are currently in decline
Citation needed
Re:Hipmunk (YC S10) Brings a Little Ecstasy to Hotel Search and Booking
on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @01:24PM (#2276543)
I thought they were referencing the ability to find MDMA by searching for 'vice'. You know...they are on a 'roll'.
Re:Twitter and Facebook are shields against future genocides
on Friday February 25, 2011 @10:57AM (#2262538)
The airplane, the machine gun, dynamite, radio, lasers, the telephone and cable television have all had similar claims made about them. I would copy and paste it if I could, but the beginning of this chapter of What Technology Wants has a lot of similar sounding quotations: http://books.google.com/books?id=_ToftPd4R8UC&lpg=PP1...
Re:What life was like before the Web
on Friday February 25, 2011 @10:44AM (#2262491)
Eternal September: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Re:Visualization: Movies Are Getting Worse
on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @06:02PM (#2251994)
You don't have to buy the $60 popcorn.
Re:Saving energy with a netduino
on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @10:55AM (#2250216)
Neat hack, but here is a timer for hot water heaters on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Intermatic-WH21-Electric-Water-Heater/...
Anyone considering this should also invest in some insulation as others have said.
Re:It’s Official: Voice is Worthless
on Thursday February 10, 2011 @01:48PM (#2203135)
I just checked and I've spent almost exactly $60 on my pay-as-you go phone since mid-October. That comes to about $15 a month. I make no effort whatsoever to reduce my phone usage, other than the fact that I don't enjoy talking on the phone at all. I use AT&T, so I pay $1 a day when I use the phone and then it's 10 cents a minute for calls outside of the network. As it turns out, most of the people I talk to have iPhones, so I'm not getting charged the 10 cents per minute. I also buy the minimum amount of text messages every month (200 for $5). I've never used all of them and they roll over each month, so my current balance of text messages is about 475. This may not be for everyone, but it's working for me. My phone is also the 'dumbest' phone I could find. Cuique suum.
Re:Mac OSX Applications I couldn't live without
on Monday January 31, 2011 @01:39PM (#2162625)
ShiftIt is awesome, it just needs support for multiple monitors.
Re:Mac OSX Applications I couldn't live without
on Monday January 31, 2011 @01:01PM (#2162464)
I use Terminal.app + Visor, but I'll give iTerm2 a try after reading this.
Re:John Dvorak: Why I Don't Use Facebook
on Friday January 14, 2011 @02:11PM (#2104972)
The mouse is bullshit!
Re:Boredom Enthusiasts Discover the Pleasures of Understimulation
on Friday December 31, 2010 @03:56PM (#2056430)
"Boredom is counter-revolutionary"