missechokit's comments

missechokit | 13 years ago | on: Prof. calls out student for cheating via Math StackExchange

I think the issue here was that it was for a final exam.

missechokit | 13 years ago | on: Prof. calls out student for cheating via Math StackExchange

So was this a CMU student? :(

missechokit | 13 years ago | on: How We Got into Y Combinator

The most interesting part of this, I think, is the tweet buttons with the quotes everywhere. Does that make an appreciable change in terms of people sharing? Or does it just take up a bunch of space?

missechokit | 13 years ago | on: Facebook Has Decided That I Am Not Interested In My Wife

...explain? I honestly don't understand what happened. How does promoted posts tie in?

missechokit | 13 years ago | on: How Marines Are Like Computer Scientists: The Problem with Underrepresentation

Maybe it wasn't a good analogy, but I think the premise--underrepresentation begets underrepresentation and a whole slew of other problems--is pretty sound.

Also, did you a word?

missechokit | 13 years ago | on: Hackathon Hacks for Organizers

I wonder if that's as true for hackathons, like Alexey's, that don't charge attendees $70 a pop.

missechokit | 13 years ago | on: On sexism in the tech industry - rebuttal

It is.

missechokit | 13 years ago | on: How to Reinforce Impostor Syndrome

It's too bad he can't be his own frontman. I guess that's impostor syndrome for ya?

missechokit | 13 years ago | on: Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?

Wait, so is this a browser easter egg or just a result of parsing out non-hex characters?

missechokit | 13 years ago | on: The Declaration of Twitter Independence

p-a-r-o-d-y

missechokit | 13 years ago | on: Would you invest in a startup coming out of a hackathon?

You could also go to hackathons for the sheer joy of it.

missechokit | 13 years ago | on: Everyme (YC S11) Has A New Project: Origami, Private Sharing For Families

How does YC W12 Family Leaf feel about this?

missechokit | 13 years ago | on: Hacks from PennApps, largest student-run hackathon

Yeah, I agree. More food and fewer nerf guns and the budget will balance again

missechokit | 13 years ago | on: Facebook uses Twitter Bootstrap

Seriously. I'm just waiting for that day.

missechokit | 13 years ago | on: The 25 magic words in American television

Is there a list like this for startup names?

missechokit | 13 years ago | on: Introducing the Command Bar

Death to the CLI/GUI religious wars.

missechokit | 13 years ago | on: Odd Things Happen When You Chop Up Cities and Stack Them Sideways

Whoops--I had no idea! And I was shocked to see that it had this much traction myself.

missechokit | 13 years ago | on: Calling all Brogrammers: Porn Star Developer

It's a joke, right? Please? Please let this be a joke.

missechokit | 13 years ago | on: Hey HN, help two Latin American entrepreneurs attend to Startup Weekend NYC

It's not clear to me why you're different from any other wannabe entrepreneur trying to go to SW. You should probably describe yourselves more fully.

Good luck.

missechokit | 13 years ago | on: Treating your personal website as a startup

In other words, you're always building a product: your startup, your personal website, maybe even yourself.