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Re:Ask HN: Why no sense of humor? on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @11:51PM (#575048)
Because nobody here has one.
Re:What Happens When Larry and Sergey Die? on Monday April 20, 2009 @11:00PM (#571835)
You can be sure they'll spend their billions trying to figure out a way not to die.
Re:A visit to id software, 1993 on Monday April 06, 2009 @08:30PM (#549988)
The moment when I first played doom hasn't been equaled since. Except maybe the first time I played Quake. Since then, nothing really made me realize that I was looking at the future. Graphics keep getting better but it all seems like it's been done before.
This guy is autistic.
More like the beginning of the beginning.
Re:Don't Blame Jim Cramer on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @05:31PM (#520656)
If someone gets their financial advice from a guy pretending to be crazy on TV, like some kind of used car salesman, they need to pull their heads out of their asses. Jim Cramer is entertainment, he's not going to make anybody rich. People who think he lost them money need to shut the fuck up.
Hey I didn't say anything about porn, you did.
This site would be a lot more profitable if he was selling romantic situation videos of him and his wife.
Re:How should you fire someone? on Saturday March 14, 2009 @03:52AM (#515736)
Don't say "hey do you have a minute?" Instead say "step into my office."
Re:How to build a front page on Monday March 09, 2009 @04:45PM (#509027)
I don't think there's any way to improve snipd.com. The fundamental problem is that it's hard to understand what exactly snipd does. I'm a computer expert and I still don't understand it.
Re:Git is the next Unix on Thursday March 05, 2009 @11:24PM (#505170)
I just assumed the author decided to say something so ridiculous that nobody would try to question whether it makes sense or not.
Re:Ask HN: anyone in SF need a kickass frontend developer? on Friday January 23, 2009 @04:49PM (#447165)
He said he wanted to work on something important.
Re:Don't hire a programmer if they don't code for fun on Thursday January 22, 2009 @06:07PM (#445550)
Just because a programmer codes something for fun on his own time doesn't mean he's going to have fun coding your app too.
Re:Hiring is hard on Thursday December 04, 2008 @08:21PM (#386454)
Are you writing controls for the space shuttle or building a web based lead manager? How come nobody is good enough? My guess is you probably don't know what to look for in a candidate.
Re:Entrepreneurs Will Save America on Sunday October 26, 2008 @06:06AM (#344180)
i think he's trying to say that iphone apps will save america
i read that as "Personal Lubrication for Dummies"
Re:Mafiaboy Grows Up; a Hacker Seeks Redemption on Saturday October 11, 2008 @06:06PM (#329962)
i remember it was somebody else who did the time for those ddos attacks
Re:How Much Money Does It Take To Be A TechCrunch50 Finalist? on Saturday September 13, 2008 @07:08PM (#303441)
i literally didn't know about a single one of those top 50 companies. what a bunch of nonsense.
it sounds like this guy is a consultant, who management brings in, and everyone there automatically hates him.