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Re:Warren Buffett: Stop coddling the super rich on Monday August 15, 2011 @12:32AM (#2885458)
As a freshly minted middle-class American, I disagree with Mr. Buffet's argument here. Though his eagerness to share the tax-burden is laudable, I hope that tax rates stay low for him. I would pay higher taxes to keep it that way.

Simply put, I don't trust the government with that money.

Re:What is a y-combinator? on Friday July 15, 2011 @11:44PM (#2770060)
Fixed.
Re:Linux is Not Windows on Saturday June 11, 2011 @11:23PM (#2645555)
Linux will win the desktop when everything moves to the browser. Programmers want only a good terminal and a good browser. Non-programmers want only a good browser. Linux has a best kernel and will win on that fact alone in the next ~20 years.

Though likely, when Linux wins the desktop, no one will notice the difference.

I would still list programming projects. It depends on the company culture though whether they value that geek-cred.

I know as a developer I would feel more comfortable with a boss who can appreciate abstract concepts like code-quality or stressful working conditions.

Re:Comments Are Dead. We Need You to Help Reinvent Them on Saturday May 14, 2011 @11:31PM (#2549237)
What about twitter search? They have a widget made just for that: http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/widget_search
Re:Why C++ is vastly superior to C on Saturday May 14, 2011 @01:01PM (#2548030)
Copy constructors are bad. Variable assignment should not be a user defined behaviour.
Re:Comments Are Dead. We Need You to Help Reinvent Them on Saturday May 14, 2011 @12:32PM (#2547963)
Twitter seems like a fairly good alternative?
Re:My Weekend Startup: Find Hot News Faster on Monday May 09, 2011 @08:51AM (#2528506)
"karmafeeder" is meant somewhat tongue in cheek. Really it is just a better news aggregator, that is all.
Re:My Weekend Startup: Find Hot News Faster on Monday May 09, 2011 @08:08AM (#2528389)
The site is basically just an RSS reader + voting system. These are sites that constantly show up on HN front page and in other community news sites: the idea is that you can repost from this site for instant karma.

The number of sites that I am pulling from is still kind of low. As I add more sites, the story quantity will get higher and then I will look at ways to increase story quality too.

The facebook auth is required to vote, which I need to add a prompt if you try to vote before logging in.

Thanks for the feedback.