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To use your analogy, if I am selling cars that are incredibly cheap, safe, reliable and comfortable, and people are buying my car over other cars that smell like rainbows and unicorns, there probably is some unique value I'm providing here.

Since we're talking about startups, if I were to make a decision I would rather focus the hell out of my strength than trying to invest my limited resources in improving my weakness.

Also, "smell like wet dog" is a bit too extreme analogy don't you think? For most people I think Github issues is good enough. It would be more like "doesn't have the best scent ever but it's good enough"
Also, consider that the system burning may actually benefit the ~50% or so who vote to burn it. Who wins when "the global economy" improves? Largely the already wealthy. Who wins when the stock market goes up? At least in the USA, about 50% of us do not [1].

If everyone in the bottom 50% loses 1% of their wealth while everyone in the top 50% loses 10% of their wealth, those initially at the bottom, while now still likely at the bottom, are now (when considered relatively) doing significantly better than they were before. They would rationally vote for such a deal. If you don't believe that, look at the reverse: when you get a 1% raise and your neighbor gets a 10% raise, you end up worse off. (Look at Bay Area housing prices when one group of people quickly becomes wealthier than everyone else)

1: http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/10/investing/investing-52-perce...
Estimate states it did less than half a billion of dollars of damage to human lives, the environment, and the economy.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/29/vw-excess-emissions-linked-to...

Allowing some New World Judge the power to destroy all international subsidiaries of a global corporation with 610,067 employees at the stroke of a pen might not improve the situation.
Sure, but you are only looking at your costs. What about the costs to society, the pollution you cause, the dangerous environment you are part off.
Hopefully it's a lot more affordable.
I wish MS would release a stripped down version of VS for OSX/Linux, but I know it probably won't happen.
This post is climbing really fast despite not really having anything interesting to say. What's going on here?
So I should vote for the other side that reflexively calls me racist and bigoted whenever I don't agree with them? The side that takes innocent cops that were defending their lives and ruins their careers and lives, so that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton can advance theirs? The side that has forced colleges to lower the standard of evidence in college sexual assault cases, so young men can have their lives ruined by an accusation? The side that has invented a gender wage gap to sow division? The side that arranged to carry a massive banner at the front of the gay pride parade in NYC this weekend, saying "Republican Hate Kills"? The side that will try to destroy my career if I donate to the wrong political cause? Look, I can make your side look like demons too.

The attack on the judge was a bad move and poorly argued. Instead of "he's Mexican and I want to build a wall", he could have argued the defensible "he's associated himself with some Hispanic-American political groups that have political goals that I represent a huge threat to" (or really, just have left it alone). I would never join an organization called "La Raza", which literally means "The Race"; the thought is appalling to me, as it should be to you. It was appalling to Cesar Chavez, the left-wing Mexican-American civil rights activist, when they were first founded.

Trump has been in the public spotlight for decades, runs major companies with many employees, and no one ever thought to call him racist or accuse him of discrimination until he said he wanted to build a wall.

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Hackernews is rate-limiting me, here's my response to maxerickson:

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I stand corrected. Here are the Google search results for "Donald Trump racist" up to 2008, before his criticism of Obama got the word thrown around a ton. Almost everything comes from one guy's tell-all-type memoir (aka tabloid crap) and the rest speaks for itself as political opportunism. If anything, it actually helps prove my broader point about it being thrown around ridiculously.

https://www.google.com/#q=donald+trump+racist&tbs=cdr:1,cd_m...
Scott's post genuinely makes me angry. It uses subtle language to imply that employees are inferior individuals who are lucky that the owners of capital deign to share anything with them.

In Scott's worldview, choosing to leave a company before it has exited is inherently disloyal. Even if they're paying you under market. Even if you could contribute more value elsewhere.

I wonder if he would accept similar terms:

1. Reduce his salary at a16z to something minimal. (<$100k)

2. He only gets his carry in a company if he invests in every subsequent round. If they ever decline to follow-on, it's clearly a sign of "disloyalty" and they should forfeit all equity.

I agree with Adam that it's at least nice to see the owners of capital so nakedly betraying their worldview (diversification is all well and good for them, but employees owe infinite loyalty).

I will think long and hard before ever working for a company where Scott is on the board.

This part is particularly troubling:

> One existing solution to the “dead equity” problem has been — and still can be — to make exceptions where appropriate for certain exiting employees.

It's essentially an argument for cronyism. The people who most need equity extensions are those unlikely to have the connections and political savvy to get them. I strongly suspect such systems would work to further disadvantaged already disadvantaged groups.
I don't think this is an advice piece. It seems like he just wanted to write about his story.
Summary - OP works hard for money for some time and then decides that isn't fun. Now they work only on things that interest them and call that retirement.

As someone interested in financial independence and early retirement, this blog was not what I expected.
Can you make a public policy case for a "death penalty" for multi-billion-dollar companies in mainstream industries? Who does that help? Who does it harm? Is it the most effective way to achieve the goal of the policy?

Since we have neither a corporate death penalty nor adequate criminal statutes for malfeasance, how is the "corporate death penalty" superior than laws that make it more straightforward to hold managers and directors accountable criminally? People who are willing to commit crimes to enrich themselves using companies are unlikely to be especially motivated by the well-being of the company, its employees, or shareholders.
A router has to track you to know where to send the info you've requested.
Call your state's Public Utility Commission. I cannot believe that would be legal.
I'm really delighted to hear your boss's daughter is having so much fun. That's a great outcome.

I don't expect everyone using Pyret to turn into a professional programmer. In fact, I don't want everyone to do so, because the world also needs electrical engineers and materials scientists and poets and painters and plumbers and everything else. So I'm not out to create a planet full of nothing but nerds (in your sense).

But I do think computing is a fundamentally different way of approaching problems. It is not universal, and even where it applies, it is not the only approach. But it's a powerful and new one. I still think nobody has put it better than Abelson and Sussman, who called this “procedural epistemology”. I would like as many people as possible to have access to this epistemology.

Bringing computing to a wide population requires designing something that works for them. I don't claim we have the perfect answer; maybe assembly would work well too, though I have serious doubts (but hey, there's an easy way to prove me wrong: I'm not standing in anyone's way…).

Over a decade ago, long before “big data” was a thing, I created a course called “Introduction to Computing for Humanities and Social Sciences” that was essentially an intro to big data. It's been a very successful course at Brown, and part of its successes, I believe, was my stubborn adherence to teaching the first month entirely in Excel. That attracted, retained, and empowered a whole group of students who by their own admission did not dream of taking computing.

So, the tool does make a difference. Pyret is a tool to tackle our goals. We as a discipline are in the midst of a huge explosion of computing education interest in many countries. A lot of these are _losing track_ of who they are for and what it takes to get there [http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/200936-qualify-your-quan...]. That's a problem we're deep in the midst of trying to address, and Pyret is central to how we are going about it. Others who think they can get to “all” [modulo the above article] can and will take other bets. It's all good so long as they are actually clear about their goals and then honestly evaluate them later.
Bug was found too late, near code freeze for rtm, not enough time for fix.

fix is in progress ( https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/pull/1290 ) probably tomorrow, it's not a big problem one or two days of delay. Also because that's an sdk issue (preview2) not of .NET Core (rtm)

The f# support is in beta, c# was ahead obv, but that's ok i think, it's used as the language for the corefx, etc. vb is not working at all atm.

The .NET Core sdk preview1 worked ok ootb, see for example the https://github.com/SuaveIO/Suave-CoreCLR-sample working xplat (win/ubuntu/osx/docker). And the preview1 continue to work.

What i really like it's how the sdk it's evolving, using modularized components it's possibile to fix/improve/evolve the f# compiler/library, without waiting a new version of sdk. That's really good.

In the next sdk or rtm also the `dotnet new` it's going to be updatable, so np about template too
If it's a 45 minute walk it's likely a 10 minute bike ride.
I suppose that would be fine if they only live another 15 years.
They aren't lucky. The value of their cars dropped as a result of VW's unethical decisions. VW needs compensate them for that loss.
Such a "Coorporate death penalty" is likely counterproductive in several ways. On one hand you could just open a new company under a similar name and continue buisiness as usual, on the the other hand, what happens to the workers employed by VW? It would kill entire cities in many places of the world. For example, Wolfsburg, the VW headquarter city has a population of ~100 000, the factory alone employs 57,000 people, ignoring administration and managment for VW in Wolfsburg. The shareholders would still be richer and don't have to fear punishment, the managers are still well networked enough to quickly get a new job at Siemens or wherever and the only people suffering at the end are the guys putting the seats into the chassis who had nothing to do with the whole situation.

Also, what you are ignoring is that the US can't just come along and close a transnational or foreign company. Also, what about subsidaries? Does condé nast get closed if reddit violates the law? Does GM get closed if Opel cheats?
We haven't evolved past a whiteboard and a webcamera. So there is no collaboration really for remote users.
i thought you must've been exaggerating about the maid service and weekly massages.
I like it. +1 from us..
I understand your sarcasm, but I think you may have missed what the author is getting at.

Looking at what the author uses as a definition for work, he's basically implying he wants to make money a secondary goal. In other words, instead of working for the sake of earning money, find something you enjoy and find a way to earn a living doing that. The difference comes down to whether you'd enjoy doing what you do as a job even if you didn't get paid. If you'd enjoy it even without earning money, then the argument is that it's not really 'work' (I'm using that term loosely as pursuing your interests may still take up a lot of time and effort).

That seems to be the basic gist of it. I'm sure we've heard similar messages before, but it's still good to see people learn from their experiences. I wish the author well with enjoying his new path.
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I'm so glad I found a therapist for my burnout, as she introduced me to mindfulness meditation and it had the same impact for me at the parent poster.

The 'Mindfulness' app has decent free guided meditations, but I highly recommend the Headspace paid subscription, it costs peanuts compared to the value of your health and happiness. It's so well organised, has heaps of content, and they seem to be fairly science-based in their approach.

EDIT: Typo.
Like other commentators, I would suggest that the criminal investigations are ongoing, but I also suggest that VW management is getting off very easy. They are not currently under arrest. Individuals by this point, with this sort of evidence, would have been arrested and bailed. There is more than probably cause to start arresting dozens of VW employees. They can then fight amongst themselves as to who is going to turn state's evidence.
They didn't want to wire up Baltimore. They wanted to cherry pick the affluent neighborhoods, and screw the rest.
Valve's "Left 4 Dead" had a system like this called the "AI director" that was pretty well-received.

See the part about "Generate Dramatic Game Pacing"
http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2009/ai_systems_of...
There are 3 main problems with the whiteboard tech interview.
1. It's not actually correlated to job performance. Google (and others) have done tons of studies on this, and the summary was basically, "Yeah, it's complete bs."
2. It is meant to show how a candidate would solve a problem, but it forces the candidate to follow a particular problem-solving path. Who in their right mind, when being first introduced to a new problem, cuts off all access to Google and other resources and tries to derive a solution from first principles?! Recent grads maybe, but not anyone who's been doing this for some time. It's not a good measure of how a candidate solves a problem if that's not the candidate's typical way of solving a problem. It's like to trying to see how good someone can ride a bike by handing them a unicycle.
3. We're the only industry that doesn't recognize success. At what point should the technical interviews cease? 5 years in? 10? Senior Engineer? Director? CTO? Can we really not tell if someone knows their stuff by just asking them about what's on their resume or by giving them a take-home project to submit?

The fundamental problem is trying to evaluate coding skill in an interview environment. The ability to regurgitate from Cracking the Coding Interview says nothing about whether a candidate can write well-documented, well-tested, maintainable code. It fails even more at determining whether a candidate knows when to write their own stuff vs when to use a library. It fails to determine how well a candidate can learn. All of those things are far more important skills to have.
I get the impression that "Hamilton" appeals to people who want to feel "down with the minorities" but get the vapors if they accidentally look at Section 8 housing.
Losing your job << going to jail for your actions. From the Wikipedia article: "... estimated that approximately 59 premature deaths will be caused by the excess pollution produced between 2008 and 2015 by vehicles equipped with the defeat device in the U.S."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal#D...

Installing the defeat devices in hundreds of thousands of vehicles was not an accident that happened one day. It was a calculated corporate decision involving many people, over a long period of time. The result, according to many sources, was dozens to hundreds of deaths in the United States, Europe and elsewhere.
Is "culturalism" a better term than "racism"? As in, how many people are rejecting people because of their race, and how many are rejecting them because they want to live in the culture of their original homeland? Is "culturalism" just as bad as racism in your mind? Are any cultures more preferable to you than others? Seemingly yes, because you want a xenophilia culture?
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When you say "serious consequences", do you have any idea whether the people responsible have moved on to other similar jobs or are still working in the industry or living a similar lifestyle?

Because if they are, then I think we may have to disagree on what constitutes a "serious consequence", as per the original posters point.

And if we don't know that, then we're not really in a position to know if there have been sufficiently serious consequences for those involved.

Hell, I'll pay the 15 billion dollar fine if I can do it with Volkswagen money and you don't touch my assets, the money I took out of the company as salary while doing the crime, or jail me.

Serious consequences laid on a corporation don't do anything, because there's no conscious being there to react to, perceive, or experience those negative consequences. They especially don't do anything if you're managing other people's money and the executive class receives relatively little personal punishment.
> Toyota doesn't get to come to your house and tow your Corolla away when they think you ought to move on. You get to decide that: it's your car, and it's your choice.

Depends on where you live. In Germany TÜV has to regularly check your car for complying with street regulations, and if it doesn't pass, you don't get to drive it.

The only way to keep it is to keep it of the roads, and there's a nice :caranalogy: to keeping your insecure-via-age OS by keeping it offline.
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> up to $1.25M/yr

You are taking a speaking fee that is implied to be at the upper end, and multiplying it by a number including unpaid speeches (which is "many" of them), and then implying that this is how much he is making.

Sure, you said up to. I also make up to $1.25M/yr on speaking fees, but it's not a bump up from any payscale since the actual number is 0.
> I feel trapped here.

I find this sentiment interesting because I have the complete opposite feeling that you have. In my view, NYC is light-years ahead of Atlanta (where I live) when it comes to walkability, bikeability, and public transit. I would love to live in a city like yours.

Given that Atlanta is nowhere near NYC in those regards, it's weird that I feel trapped every time I get in a car here.

I don't own a car because I feel free without a car.

This goes to show me that even though I think NYC, Portland, Minneapolis, et al. would be amazing to live in, there are many other opinions and sentiments. :-)
Good question!

The compiler is definitely the main application that's been written. We're not aware of any standalone Pyret applications on the order of more than a few KLOC, but those are quite different in flavor, like course infrastructure.

The next largest chunk of Pyret code out there is assignments for various courses and curricula, which are our major users and macro-scale test cases. In fact, this is a useful perspective on what we get feedback from: a broad and shallow set of use cases in education. This leads us to focus on the first-time use cases, especially on the first time seeing an error message, the first time writing a test, the English vocabulary that lines up with explaining code to a number of different audiences (especially at different age levels), and the snags and inconsistencies in syntax in even extremely short programs.

Of course, it's been _used_ by plenty of students and their teachers, who have written now thousands of their own interpreters and video games and graph algorithms and image-generation programs and type-checkers and data structures in Pyret.

Finally, the design of Pyret is intentionally conservative. Pyret is not a research experiment in some particular new and untested language feature; in fact, such features are almost by definition kept out of the language. Therefore, we believe we're building on a long tradition of crisp, clear language definitions inspired by the lambda-calculus, with little by way of weirdness or frippery.
Has anyone successfully implemented the 4 hour workweek?
Curious to have a discussion surrounding whether people have successfully maintained a four hour work week. Also included can be those that have completely automated businesses too. On a personal note, I find freedom in being able to not work the 9-5 job. If I were to work 9=5 this would be certainly side income with the hope to then quit the 9-5.
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On top of that, Scala is a much nicer language than C#. I moved from being a C# developer to Scala and couldn't be happier. Best thing about C# is Visual Studio (IDEs are weaker in Scala land) but a bigger ecosystem and more powerful language make it for it imo.
Knees can't do it.
How "bold" are you prepared to accept?
What is plenty? 1%? 2%?

It's possible, but it's difficult. In most cases luck ends up being a huge factor whether you want to admit it or not. For many in the Bay Area it just comes down to good timing: moved here 10 years ago, locked into a monthly payment less than $1,500/mo, spent the last few years making ~$200k. Sure, you put in the time. But someone else can put in the time today doing the same thing you did and they will have a completely different outcome. It's not reproducible, because the largest factor was good (lucky) timing.

The hardest thing to do is reduce you monthly housing expense. The best "advice" is actually playing the which-city-should-I-live-in lottery. Pick correctly and the 30% of your income that goes towards housing can increase by 200-300%. 10 years later, there's your retirement. Pick incorrectly and you'll be stuck with average gains like everyone else.

It's just a different kind of lottery. You can make a smart bet, but it's still a bet.
Twitter is amazing for getting companies to fix problems. They absolutely hate bad publicity and will usually go out of their way to fix the issue, or at least push you into a DM with them to hide it. FCC complaints also go a long ways.
Does anyone know what the total paid by BP was for Deepwater Horizon? I can't seem to find a total anywhere here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_litigation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon#Aftermath
I think you are truly in a minority if you'd rather take a survey than have the data collected automatically. There has to be a sane middle ground.
How One Man Made a $200M Business Out of Cheap Watches
"...my first company runs pretty much on autopilot now. Company [x] is being managed by my co-founder."

That's not really retiring. That's delegating day-to-day operational management.

Watching over a portfolio of passive income assets is basically the "job" of an Investor/Owner.
Point taken. But I guess it was the tone of the article with bullet point realizations that irked me. Either there are way too many millennials with blog posts filled with trivial philosophy pretending to be Kant's second coming or I am too cynical. It is probably the latter and I am only 36, but get off my lawn..! :)
If that's the only indication you're using for this, I think you'll be very disappointed.
And how often have you had to write bubble sorts on the job? Or tackle coding problems without a computer?
Exacly, the preview2 of the sdk, atm, is broken for f#. Not the .net core, that's ok.

new console/lib templates are going to be published (with the fixed fsharp compiler/library package), that's all.
Screen loggers then...heck a spy camera.
Oh, ha, derp.
"Nobody is forced to live in these apartments."

Ahh, the old, "No one forced someone to live there, so everything that happens is A OK."

That's not an argument, and that's not justification. That's just you admitting this is a shitty practice that needs to stop.
It is still opt-out, and thus considered harmful (at least by me)
There is already ycmd, srclib etc. so there already are other common protocol that try to unify different languages.