abrown28 | 9 years ago | on: Video Games Are Boring
Unlike the usual at least this one ended with the author stating they were going to work on the problem. These types of articles usually end by telling me why I am wrong and what I should be doing.
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abrown28 | 9 years ago | on: Video Games Are Boring
This article hijacks the history so that in one browser I have to double click the back button to get back to hacker news and in another browser I end up at facebook. It's very irritating.
abrown28 | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is Bash for Windows good enough to replace a Linux/Mac terminal?
I can do almost everything I want in bash except run anything that needs a list of network interfaces. I would like to run gulp with browsersync.
abrown28 | 9 years ago | on: Why I won’t be attending Systems We Love
At one time or another something like this might have moved me but after too many cries of "Wolf!" I've stopped caring.
abrown28 | 9 years ago | on: Why I won’t be attending Systems We Love
I'm old and should know better but it's the same feeling I have.
abrown28 | 9 years ago | on: An ominous American future imagined
"...sporadic left-wing violence..." I think that was a typo. It should have read "never ending left-wing violence"
abrown28 | 9 years ago | on: Thelonious Monk Creates a List of Tips for Playing a Gig (2012)
I would like more backstory on that one.
abrown28 | 9 years ago | on: What it took to save the Twinkie
Fight for 15 will fix it
abrown28 | 9 years ago | on: Founder Sold His Startup for $575M in Cash and Gets to Keep Every Penny (2015)
Except for the salary and benefits they negotiated for.
abrown28 | 9 years ago | on: The Market Fairy Will Not Solve the Problems of Uber and Lyft
The Market Fairy isn't, despite it being a fairy, capable of dealing with imaginary problems.
abrown28 | 10 years ago | on: Follow the Fucking Law Code of Conduct
uh... no?
abrown28 | 10 years ago | on: A big-shot vc says we need inequality. What do economists say?
$8,525 a month rent for an apt is ridiculous but I bet it's because no one is allowed to build new ones not because of income inequality.
abrown28 | 10 years ago | on: Science of protecting people’s feelings: why we pretend all opinions are equal
Yeah... I don't do this
abrown28 | 10 years ago | on: Speaking out against Sarah Sharp (2013)
I pine for the days when the only drama I had to deal with was vim vs emacs.
abrown28 | 10 years ago | on: When does your religion legally excuse you from doing part of your job?
I'm going with never. Find another job.
abrown28 | 10 years ago | on: Echochamber.js
Which 3 letter agency do you work for?
abrown28 | 10 years ago | on: Why I Defaulted on My Student Loans
I think he's a contemptible ass. His mother is the cosignor on the loan. I would work my ass off to pay that back rather than let the negative effects of defaulting land on my mother.
abrown28 | 11 years ago | on: First 26 pages of Neal Stephenson's new novel Seveneves
what chapter is that in?
abrown28 | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Juji – The Precog Agatha Live Online in Real Life
apparently I have not written more than 6000 words on facebook. I feel strangely proud
abrown28 | 11 years ago | on: There’s already a conspiracy theory brewing over net neutrality
I'm sure it will turn out just as well as every other top down forced solution to a non-existent problem