jmccaffrey

Haha, why does Steve Wozniak have the "Bad Boys Bail Bonds" lanyard my girlfriend does?

I had no idea Rap Genius was a YC company. I listen to _alot_ of rap while working, and often look up the more intricate lyrics/phrases I haven't heard of.

Rap Genius is far and way the best site, the next step down the ladder is things like Yahoo Answers...

Alot of people are getting down on this... I'm very excited.

I live in downtown San Jose, and _alot_ of people tool around on long-boards already; I've been thinking about getting one and I'm a dedicated cyclist. The city is quite flat, and the bikelanes and side-walks are wide and nearly empty. Combined with a high bike-theft rate, and this would be a great way to scoot around.

So even if it might not work where you live, there are places where this contraption fits perfectly.

Congrats! I went to school in Philadelphia, I think Kortina paid for cheesesteaks at a hackathon once..

Much love for PadMapper. I'll miss it man...I even recommended it to my landlord so he can track neighborhood apartment prices better (for rent adjustment)

Yeah, the relevant naming was great. Seeing it go from rough segment clustering to your website design was very neat.

Those looks _weirdly_ similar to what caricaturists draw.

I went to a Serious Business Meeting in the Bay Area where one of the other company's engineers was wearing a kilt. Pretty excellent.

Gotta love android, you can cheerfully mprotect away the write-protection on executable pages. I've done some dynamic stub code removal that way. Worst case, you can only hose your own process.

C++ actually has some performance advantages over C, especially relating to static polymorphism (qsort v. std::sort)

Having worked with repo professionally, I'm not a fan. You lose simple ability to track dependencies across repositories or even revert to a previous consistent point in time without diligent tagging. Even with good tags, restructuring your project setup and changing your repo manifest can still break your ability to go back in time.

I'm not sure I agree that it's necessarily bad if the interface is a side-effect of the implementation. It seems very worse-is-better to me.

I feel like when the interface is a side-effect of implementation, you get a more gradual sliding scale from user to developer (like being able to experiment with web apis by curling at them).

In git's case, I appreciate that I can trawl around through my .git directory and not get lost because it pretty closely matches the interface.