jharper's comments

jharper | 18 years ago | on: Any Hackers in Charlotte, NC?

What's everybody's background?

I'm currently coding in Ruby on Rails. Studied CS and Math at Appalachian State (graduated in 2004). Working at Enventys in Charlotte (http://www.enventys.com).

We could definitely meet up at the Enventys facilities ... cool place to hang out.

jharper | 18 years ago | on: Hacker News "Submit" functionality needs a Digg-like duplicate alert

Human dupe-detection would be an excellent extension to this process.

jharper | 18 years ago | on: Hacker Music

I just purchased "TRANCE" on itunes ... pretty good so far.

jharper | 18 years ago | on: Hacker Music

Vultures (John Mayer)

Lose Yourself (Eminem)

jharper | 18 years ago | on: Ask YC: Why do you recommend a Macbook?

Synergy of ...

- An apple interface (streamlined and beautiful).

- Awesome performance/security/organization of unix.

jharper | 18 years ago | on: Ask YC: What is your preferable development environment?

Same + Cocoa Mysql + Unfuddle

jharper | 18 years ago | on: Heroku (YC Startup) Launches API and External Git Access

That's pretty fucking slick guys

jharper | 18 years ago | on: Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers?

BS Applied Math

BS Comp Science (both at Appstate)

Former Java programmer; current language is Ruby, professionally.

jharper | 18 years ago | on: How old are you and what is your education level?

25 (B.S. Mathematics, B.S. Comp Sci)

jharper | 18 years ago | on: Has the modern university become just another corporation?

That would be awesome. I wish our schools were run like businesses.

There would probably be less porn stars coming to speak for "diversity" week ...

jharper | 18 years ago | on: If you care about your rights, don't buy an iPhone

I agree. But why would you post that using an iPhone? :)

jharper | 18 years ago | on: IDEAS WANTED : How to create Buzz for new Start-up?

Good stuff sharpshoot!