mikemarotti

Does anyone know if the raw text of the page scans is available yet?

It was on this exact blog post. But just to hear him tell the story of how he built this thing in his words was incredible.

Travis's talk at Summercon was incredible - I shot the video for it and will hopefully (with Travis's and Mark's permission, of course) will post it soon!

How HackerNews Dies.

I'm curious to hear someone's response to this as well. To me, it seems like a lucky break following by a whole lot of networking.

If you wanna play these little bullshit hiring games, you better put more money on the table.

Hiren's BootCD is exactly the kind of tool I've been looking for - but I can't find the download link on that page. Am I an idiot, or does he not host his own boot cd on his site?

This UI they are pushing with Metro (or whatever it's called now) is horrendous. Has nobody at Microsoft ever read a design book?

You're going to run into this on any social news site. Don't act surprised - it's the nature of the beast.

One change to the Google SERP ranking algorithm is going to ruin their day.

It's hard to rage against you when you respond so nicely!

All of these bullshit attempts to legitimize your idea aside - if you're really sticking to your mission of making this work, you should work on not making your text captions look so lazy. It honestly looks like someone screencapping Pinterest posts and writing text captions over them in MSPaint.

This is exactly what the internet needs less of. Sad to see the diaspora guys reduced to overlaying unfunny text captions over jpgs.

Interesting, but what does this have to do with HN?