karmafeeder's comments

karmafeeder | 14 years ago | on: Warren Buffett: Stop coddling the super rich

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.

karmafeeder | 14 years ago | on: What is a y-combinator?

Fixed.

karmafeeder | 14 years ago | on: Linux is Not Windows

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.

karmafeeder | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is there a "show us your work" for job hunting managers?

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.

karmafeeder | 15 years ago | on: Comments Are Dead. We Need You to Help Reinvent Them

What about twitter search? They have a widget made just for that: http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/widget_search

karmafeeder | 15 years ago | on: Why C++ is vastly superior to C

Copy constructors are bad. Variable assignment should not be a user defined behaviour.

karmafeeder | 15 years ago | on: Comments Are Dead. We Need You to Help Reinvent Them

Twitter seems like a fairly good alternative?

karmafeeder | 15 years ago | on: My Weekend Startup: Find Hot News Faster

"karmafeeder" is meant somewhat tongue in cheek. Really it is just a better news aggregator, that is all.

karmafeeder | 15 years ago | on: My Weekend Startup: Find Hot News Faster

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.