mbubb

25 ms·

211.
by mbubb 12y ago
This is an interesting discussion and I a waffling on this issue like an incumbent red state Democrat... I am a little surprised that no one has trotted out this history lesson: "In 1969, Ken Thompson wanted to play SpaceWar on a PDP-8
212.
by mbubb 12y ago
Semantics perhaps but isn't a 'belief that there is no god'? I tend to think of agnosticism as a 'lack of belief in a god'
213.
by mbubb 12y ago
As a human attempt this is breathtaking. Bringing back tigers, etc. Phenomenal. Something troubles me - not specifically about this attempt but such attempts in general. I live a few miles away from the "Meadowlands" in New Jersey
214.
by mbubb 12y ago
Don't understand. What does this refer to?
215.
by mbubb 12y ago
What I am saying here is anecdotal (but when did that ever stop anyone)... I have to agree with Bock. I was an English major at a solid school (Rutgers) and went on to do some grad work in Comp Lit at NYU. Years later I took CS/ Math c
216.
by mbubb 12y ago
To your point - I recently read an account of the infamous Andean airplane crash (cannibalism, etc) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Andes_flight_disaster Three men struck out to find help for the group after they rea
217.
by mbubb 12y ago
"The good news is that they always knew where they were..." Actually, they mentioned that they lost the blazes so at some points could not find the trail. "So I'm with the professor: there was no danger of not getting ou
218.
by mbubb 12y ago
Good point. I was with a more experienced friend who was carrying less weight. I never had to take my pack off. If I had thought I would need to I would have shed some non-polluting weight. I was carrying 6L water at that point and there wa
219.
by mbubb 12y ago
Wow sounds like a nice trek. Those are famously steep, aren't they?
220.
by mbubb 12y ago
Great idea - I have never used one. There was a recent 'This American Life" podcast where the marine version of this saved a family on a sinking vessel in the middle of the Pacific. I bring a tiny dual band ham radio (Baofeng uv5r
221.
by mbubb 12y ago
There was a story of a guy in South Carolina a few weeks back who went out in the woods with 2 kids and had to be rescued. He was incredibly unprepared and was lost with young kids for ~ 2days. There is a distortion, where map distance and
222.
by mbubb 12y ago
What a great Dad: "A local arcade not far from where we lived regularly put old games up for sale. My dad noticed that they had listed a Space Ace cabinet for $300. To this day I will never forget my shock — my dad bought it and brough
223.
by mbubb 13y ago
It is as much the militarization as the police as out and out corruption...
224.
by mbubb 13y ago
Lately, there have been intersting HN posts on the roles for non technical folks - what about mentoring coders at startups? Is there space for this? Would it be generally unwelcome? Sorry for the US football reference here but one of my fav
225.
by mbubb 13y ago
The resume is good (experience is amazing). It is LaTeX, no? With older coders I recommend familiarity with github and LinkedIN - check and check. I might separate out blogs. Create a landing spot just for the resume. The related blog entri
226.
by mbubb 13y ago
My boys have used the Steam client on Bodhi Linux for the past 6 months or so - it probably registers as Ubuntu. Half Life, HL2, Portal, Team Fortress all work very well. They also play a lot of Minecraft on those computers (not on Steam ob
227.
by mbubb 13y ago
This is an 'optional' essay. SO I guess is an appendage to other more trad stuff like resume and regular recommendations. Making that assumption there should be links from this to the specific projects that you worked on. My initi
228.
by mbubb 13y ago
nice site - thanks
229.
by mbubb 13y ago
I like it - it installed easily enough on Mac. I started browsing around. I really do not have a quibble with the application itself - nor the intended use. Thank you for it I am enjoying playing around with it and am following the project
230.
by mbubb 13y ago
Hmmm - I didn't see the talk on that page... Is there a link?
231.
by mbubb 13y ago
Really fun! Reminds me of "little Schemer"* in the sense that there are no 'instructions' so you are encouraged to try various things out. In my opinion this way of doing it is good. It works for me. * http://
232.
by mbubb 13y ago
This made my day - thought of this clip from the Pennebaker film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY4HtQ-XJQE
233.
by mbubb 13y ago
good idea - you are right it is a bit impersonal.
234.
Ask HN: giving advice to the newly graduated...
3 points by mbubb 13y ago|2 comments
235.
by mbubb 13y ago
This is really cool - I signed up and enjoy it. However - I end up using the google doc spreadsheet more than the doc to informally sketch up projects and share information. It would be great to have that option.
236.
by mbubb 13y ago
Exactly what I thought about. I enjoyed Google Wave when it came out. EtherPad was really cool as well - its functionality has been absorbed in Google Docs and elsewhere. Today a key devops workflow I see on a daily basis is team-based HipC
237.
by mbubb 13y ago
Yup, Kent Street about a block from the water. I was there 1991-1993. And I was misremembering the subway routine - it was to go up to Queens Plaza to hit the N/R back to Manhattan.
238.
by mbubb 13y ago
Heh - I used to live in Greenpoint and would reverse commute up to Queens Plaza to avoid the "G to the L to the BDFQ" into midtown... On the contrary, Hoboken - where I now live - has a wealth of options to commute into both midt
239.
by mbubb 13y ago
Glad to see this article. I found that Guardian article very disturbing and anecdotal. The Vice followup was worse (at one point characterizing Japanese culture as "South East Asian").
240.
by mbubb 13y ago
Yeah - awkwardly put. Some Unixes are free some aren't...

More ›