daktanis's comments

daktanis | 10 years ago

Im sorry, was I approving the overreaction? No. Im saying I don't think its truly race motivated and that a High schooler should be knowledgable enough to know how it may appear. Maybe he could have left it with his shop teacher or gotten a note from the teacher. The teacher would have saved the kid some trouble since the teacher obviously thought it wouldn't be great if another teacher saw it.

Imagine if it was a bomb how the media would be damning the school for not acting.

daktanis | 10 years ago

When I was in middle school I found a note on the ground while walking to my next class with writings about how this person hated the school and wanted to blow it up. I was 12, I didnt think much of it and handed it off to a nosy friend who wanted to read it too. Well she turned it in and said I found it, I was interrogated (at the school to be fair) for an hour and half by the principle and a police office without once having called my parents. Zero tolerance man.

daktanis | 10 years ago

Im from a very white, rural town. In 2005 I was a Junior and a kid got suspended for bringing a 3 foot section of 2x4 to school. He was white. We live in a zero tolerance time, Ahmed brought a bundle of electronics and a ticking clock. It wasn't a good idea. Should it have been handled better? Yes, of course. But we live in a shitty time where two yahoos can learn to make a bomb online and cause mass destruction (see Boston Marathon Bombing).

daktanis | 11 years ago

Awesome site!

daktanis | 11 years ago

Sure Fiore is cool and all but Kunst des Fechtens by Meyer is where its at. :P

daktanis | 11 years ago

Weird thing for hacker news

daktanis | 11 years ago

Disney's legal team has big pockets to make sure they dont lose copyrights

daktanis | 11 years ago

Hiragana and Katakana are easy alphabets to understand, kanji is a huge pain in the butt.

daktanis | 11 years ago

Its a similar story to the industrial revolution in America, a countries people will go through hardship to reach prosperity. Hardships and a revolution or two...

daktanis | 11 years ago

Hmm....may have to find somewhere to do this in Orlando.

daktanis | 11 years ago

There are a lot of good options out there, comic shop guy didn't help as much as my local shop would have.

daktanis | 11 years ago

I worked at a comic shop for 4 years, we pride ourselves on having a good "Kids/all ages" section of stuff that was more in line with what kids saw on TV; Justice League, The Avengers, Young Justice, Batman Brave and the Bold, avatar the last Airbender, adventure time, etc. That shop sounds like they need to stock better.

daktanis | 11 years ago

"In those days, a startup wasn't a guy who paid some overseas software shop to crank out an MVP to run on a couple of cloud instances hoping to be the next WhatsApp"

Don't really have an opinion on the rest of the essay but I do hate this when I see it.

daktanis | 11 years ago

Our investors own a recruiting firm, so I am intimate with that industry. Number one take away I see is that companies are desperate for developers and the job reqs are often a wish list and not set in stone. My brother just finished the Iron Yard 3 month Front-End program, he has become a pretty good javascript dev in that time and I think he will do well. Waiting for the holiday lull to pass to see how the market will treat his new talents. I should add that he did well because he busted his ass, some of his class mates I wouldn't hire at minimum wage.

daktanis | 11 years ago

agreed. Im a big board game fan and know of the board game "Android" and it didn't cross my mind.