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If one is truly objective then they were covered in my "permis" statement. As you say, money isn't the only concern but one of many. And one can even stay a long time if the current place of employment continues to be the best overall deal.

But "loyal"? This is not rational. You should never be more loyal to some party than that party is to you. If you are then you've been indoctrinated. You've been had. It's fine to work somewhere a long time because you feel it's currently the best place to meet your overall objectives. It's not ok to work somewhere because "you owe them" or "they've been good to me in the past".

Being somewhere 14 years is certainly an "employee smell" if you will. Usually when someone stays that long it's because they have a misplaced sense of "family", believe their market value to be low (they could be correct), etc., etc. Not because they think it's the best overall deal out there.
Your first point is a big one - the US has an incredible variety of places to visit. I'm from the UK, and while there are some amazing places to visit in the UK, there is a lot less variety than there is in the US. I spend 10 days driving from Denver to Vegas and saw far more scenery than I ever have in the UK. If I lived in the US I could easily imagine not leaving it for years (when I lived in the UK I'd go abroad at least twice a year).
If you look at the top users most of them submit thousands of stories.

For example mklopez[1] submitted 16k stories were only 10% hit the frontpage and LtGenPanda[2] submitted 2,481 with a 42% popular ratio.
You can see this stats at the bottom right of the user profile on Digg.

[1]: http://digg.com/users/mklopez

[2]: http://digg.com/users/LtGenPanda
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Funny. An assistant at my Dad's work figured she was paying almost her salary in babysitting costs and other expenses for things she could do herself if she had time. So she quit.

My dad calls it the pay-your-neighbor-so-he-can-pay-his-neighbor phenomenon. Uncle Sam makes the most money in that relationship. He makes nothing when you babysit your own kid; he makes plenty when you hire someone to do the same thing(and someone hires you to do their thing).
I didn't leave a comment because I don't like signing up using my Facebook or Twitter account. I also don't have a posterous account. That's mainly by chance and I'm probably not your typical user. If you had disqus I'd have left a comment but only because I already have an account - not because I like disqus.

Anyways, I guess what I'm trying to say is that signing up for a new account sucks :)
you make an interesting point and clearly not everything about the modern situation for women (or men for that matter) is a clear gain over the past. However taken as a whole you have to ask whether or not the life of an average woman is better due to additional education, legal and voting rights...

I would say it probably is, i don't think increased suicide rates or depression rates are high enough to actually effect the average experience. though that is obviously just an opinion and could do with some data
Your family is part of your private life more or less by definition, and stuff once posted to any website tends to get reposted elsewhere.

If you don't want it made public, don't put it on the web is pretty good strategy.

edit: I have no idea what happened there but this comment appeared a whole bunch of times!
I would guess that it has something to do with the increasing value of the YCombinator brand name. In 2006, a company that is already earning good revenues isn't going to give PG a chunk of equity in exchange for $15,000, some free meals, and advice. In 2010 a YC investment still offers $15,000, free meals, and advice, but it also guarantees that you will catch the eye of top flight VCs, be part of an alumni network laden with talent, and get great publicity. That's appealing even to companies that have an established product.
That is the problem with the book Real World Haskell. The authors will spend most of the chapter showing you the wrong way to do it, then a paragraph at the end saying BTW this is the right way.

Kinda sorta the point of having any sort of pedagogical aid, like a book, is that it gives you at least a prod in the right direction. Learning something just to need to unlearn it a few pages later wastes everyone's time.
This is what people somehow don't get. If cost of living goes down, so do the salaries. How do you think those decreases are paid for? For most any business you can name the biggest item in the budget will be human resources. If you want to cut prices this is where you have to cut to have any real effect.
If you don't mind me asking, what sort of short contract do you take? How do you get them (advertised jobs, through contacts)?
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what particular pieces of conjecture and assumptions are you referring to?

Unless i read it wrong (which is always a possibility) the article was one half empirical description of the market for prostitution and one half case study of how a particular prostitute discovered a lucrative market niche.
Yup. I'm lucky in some respects as a UX designer, because I do UX for set top boxes, not computers - my users are even less technically-aware that computer users, and they have a very strong expectation that their television is not going to be hard/confusing to use.

As STBs have got more and more complex though, taking on major media centre capabilities, interfacing to Internet services such as YouTube, Netflix and FaceBook, we are really struggling to keep the interface simple. But at least we are aware that this is a critical aspect of our software - computer app developers sometimes can lose sight of that.
There is a difference between 'charge-out hourly rate' and 'hourly rate of pay'. Even high end lawyers are unlikely to be paid more than one-third of their charge out rate, unless they're partners (ie, business 'owners').

You probably took that into consideration with your response - I'm not disagreeing with you, just making it clearer.

And yes, there are many jobs where the pay rate exceeds $300 / hour. In my field (business coaching - no formal qualifications necessary, though they may help) a Harvard Business Review study found the average charge-out rate is $500/hr, the top measure is $2400/hr, and most practitioners work solo so don't split that fee with anyone else.
Bingo...

That's the problem I saw in this many-problem'ed article.
I'll copy some of these onto

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0At7Zl0IkSUKrdGl4RE1...

I guess these posts should link back to these spreadsheets, so that they don't really get lost/reacreated each month.

I'd also created an HN folder on Gdocs with such spreadsheets:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B97Zl0IkSUKrMzBhOTViMzEtMjA...
Exactly right. Having both people working not only increases the work force, it increases peoples disposable income driving prices above what a single income can afford. I.e. either through downward wage pressure or upward price pressure, buying power goes down.
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> What tax cuts are you talking about?

Property taxes.
Lawyers don't even pocket the majority of their rate prorata.
You know, there are some countries where prostitution is legal. Of course the picture will be bleak where it's illegal.
OK, we'll just remove the illuminating example that was giving you heartburn and leave the original point, awaiting your further gleeful downvotes to eliminate reasonable good points that don't fit your political agenda.

-> Feynman could tell whether or not there was a flaw in a proof just by hearing what the conclusion was and applying common sense. That worked for him since he had a really good intuition based on decades of thinking and personally observing.
The differences between teaching secondary school and higher education are like night and day. I say this as someone who was definitely a little shit in middle school.
A friend who once visited me took pictures from in my apartment (I live on a high floor in downtown Manhattan, nice view) which he then posted on his blog!!!

I asked him to kill it (would you like if I posted pics of your bedroom for the world to see?)
I hate to see how they use facebook to target victims. This hasn't been the only case of course, but makes you want to create a fake profile
I've heard this point made on a per-individual basis. The numbers I found actually make it look even worse:

California per-pupil spending 2008: $9,015
California’s Annual Costs to Incarcerate an Inmate in Prison: $47,102

http://blogs.sacbee.com/the-public-eye/2010/08/california-pe...
http://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/laomenus/sections/crim_justice/...
So high taxes make people more likely to maintain traditional family (husband works and wife runs the household).
Except that if you interpret that literally, pretty much any program is a compiler. I can translate a text file in the "ASCII language" to the "UTF-8 language" with Notepad++, for instance.
"So why doesn't C do it this way? Probably the hardware didn't do this at the time C was designed."

As far as I know, hardware still doesn't do this, if we look at the assembly instructions of CPU's. The languages that specify it towards zero have the advantage of being able to map the computation to the single CPU instruction.
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There was this post yesterday that actually showed that there is no strong correlation between how articles do when posted to multiple sites.

In fact, if something got posted to digg and did well there that's a pretty good indicator that on HN it will get killed.
Wow this one is old, pretty good feature though, love content-aware, it's gonna change design for sure.
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Frankly life is pretty shitty for (e.g.) rural peasants of both genders, and while in general in the past men had more independence and ability to choose their life direction, etc., I’ve always been pretty skeptical of attempts to rank the two in any absolute way. Men got killed in high numbers in war. Women got raped by invading armies. Men worked extremely physically demanding jobs that made their muscles and bones give out by age 40. Women worked differently physically demanding jobs that resulted in terrible repetitive stress injuries. Men often had legal rights over their wives, but of course had all kinds of ways of exerting their own influence and control. In some societies, many men were stuck as lonely bachelors while women were forced to become bottom-of-the-totem-pole second or third wives. Etc.

There is absolutely an important and in many ways terrible impact on a society from having one gender mostly in charge of the official hierarchies of social and political control. But it’s also the easiest thing to examine and understand from afar, and so it can overshadow other (maybe just as important) parts of the culture.

[edit: I skimmed the essay under discussion and part of it makes loosely the same point as this latter. One thing it does which I find annoying is that in using Larry Summers’s sacking as an example it ignores that the faculty wanted Summers out long before his famous comments, for completely unrelated reasons. His misdeed was not “to think thoughts that are not allowed to be thought” and to characterize it that way is quite misleading. I also am annoyed at the analysis of histograms of grades, test scores, and salaries as implying more about innate ability than they do about cultural assimilation.]
I would greatly appreciate if some kind hacker would review my reasoning and help me correct any errors!

"The calculated values (oblateness) are not close enough to the actual values, so I think I have made some mistake, or did not consider some significant factor"
I think nickb is still the top submitter to HN, there are about 4250 submissions from him, runner up is cwan with 3750 and then edw519 with 3180, I wonder what the top 3 on digg looks like.
I would greatly appreciate any review and informed feedback on this informal paper.
No, you've got the order mixed up, reddit turns in to digg.
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You can get that if you pick an enterprise product (e.g. SAP, IBM products, etc.), specialize in it and consult (not contract!). Though getting pounded by strangers might be easier and more rewarding.
If you try your hand at this "armchair budget analyst" game, you'll learn that its easier practically and politically (yes, politically) to just raise the money, especially in a state like CA:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-statebudget-fl,0,95571....

To be fair, the CA real estate boom/bust really did a number on the state's coffers. To ignore the impact of the "great recession" is to not see the problem accurately. The govt relied on increasing property tax revenue that disappeared as quickly as the monopoly money used to pay for it (aka subprime loans) and on state income taxes and sales taxes from workers who quickly lost their real estate bubble jobs. If those workers still had their jobs and homeowners still had their homes, we'd find something else to complain about. Moral of the story is be careful when playing with credit.
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This reminds of of a very cool concept that Orson Scott Card made up in his "Ender's Game" series: philotic physics –

"A philote is the basic building block of matter, the true indivisible particle that is not made up of smaller ones. Philotes take up no space and are essential to the theory of philotic energy. Each atom has a philote of its own, each molecule likewise, and ultimately each human has an aiùa, an intelligent philote."
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I'd bet it's a lot harder than simply looking good. The article stated that the incidents became longer and more complex the higher the price rose. The customer expected to have a conversation. Given that she's now charging something only affordable by the upper/upper-middle class, one can expect her population to be highly educated. I doubt that if she were not already highly educated (and probably well-read, as well) she wouldn't be nearly as competitive. Of course, isn't that the market acting? How common is a highly educated prostitute who could choose between dozens of alternative, legal, well-paying professions. A lifetime of education is one hell of a marketable asset (and competitive advantage).
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The Perl programmers I personally know hate Java because it's always been more popular and had more libraries.
These kinds of things always remind me of the central concept in Pullman's His Dark Materials - that dark matter is original sin.
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Is that Flash, HTML5 or just vector images?
I found the second article (hidden beneath the credits and the book ads) about monkeys adopting currency much more interesting. I know people who do primate research and it doesn't surprise me in the least, but it's much more interesting than the first, which can be summarized as "high-end prostitutes have a good life and make a lot of money, low-end prostitutes have a shitty life and make no money" with the rest being a mix of stereotypes and overconvoluted explanations of the demand curve.
Funny, I didn't notice that bad language at all until I re-read the comment.
This is pretty basic, I wouldn't call this "immensely useful".

Have a look at http://ui-patterns.com/ instead if you want a bit more meat.
I was just thinking about this the other day looking at the jobs page, wouldn't be a good idea to put somewhere a list of the companies that started from YC? Especially for companies that sell services to end-users (if i know that company x is related to yc, i'd probably be more inclined to buy what they offer... see jacoblyles's post).
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I'm a techie and looking for a sweet place for a honeymoon. My girl and I are travelers, we've been to Asia, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and throughout the US.

She is a a school teacher (has July off, the month we'll have off), so what do we do or where do we go? It has to be crazy for us travelers, and more importantly special. Who has a place or a special idea?
The fridge is no more than a private mailing list influenced by social networks.

It's funny, google is trying to create a new social network (buzz, orkut, wave, ...) and they have Google Groups that are real communities (spam appart) that only need some care.
This has great potential if I understand it correctly. One of the things facebook doesn't seem to address for me is the need to have groups of friends. I've always wanted facebook to implement the idea of "circles" (i.e. high school friends, college friends, current friends, co-workers, etc) so I could post stuff specific to that circle of friends rather than blasting all of my FB friends, which may include all of those groups.

Maybe this feature is on the horizon in facebook, or maybe something like this new service will address it, or both. FB seems to be pretty good at quickly copying features that other services provide that are popular and align well with the whole social graph (e.g. twitter, foursquare).

I played with thefridge a bit just to try it out and it seems very alpha: it basically didn't work for me at all. It seems many features require email verification and although I followed the email link, I exited out of the password prompt and wasn't able to do much.
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Be gleeful all you want, but this is mostly a _patent_ suit. In fact, if you're running a fully compliant Java stack, Sun has given you a patent grant for that and you should be in the clear.

But Perl6 running on Parrot? Oracles JVM-related patents may very well apply, so your best bet is to hope that your favourite language never gets used by a high profile company in one of the next leading mobile platforms.

Google went out of its way not to use any code created by Sun, and didn't even use the JVM as a foundation in order to (hopefully) be in the clear.

So be careful what you wish for. My first reaction was also that of "good riddance!", but in the end the whole situation is just sad. I never liked programming Java, so I decided to keep it out of my programming life. Maybe that's why I don't hate it so much. :)
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So much for that secret.

Unless Kevin is pulling a prank.
Are you even from a developing country?
I believe this is such a list:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l...
http://twitter.com/kevinrose/status/22067428719
Rose is such a troll, he spewed on Google Me too. Can't be trusted with secret's.
Wait... do airplanes run on Windows?! That sounds like a really bad idea!
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This kind of surprises me. I had naively assumed that it wasn't all that difficult to get an article on Techcrunch.

How did you "reach out"?
predictable...

The first thing that crossed my mind was: Arrington is the last person that can complain about private emails being made public.

The second was 'but it's still a dick thing to do'.

And that led me to believe it might be a prank.
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I'll also add that I've been looking for something like this for a client so I'll make sure I check both products out FWIW.
would be interesting for us... but from a business point of view, many companies sometimes just want something that is able to work now, and with a decent degree of reliability.

So I would not be surprised if the guy mentioned actually will be able to sell this program for a decent amount of money.
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> ruining his own students by teaching them to mimic his own flawed reasoning ...

In the letter he does mention "Every year, fewer and fewer of you read newspapers, speak a foreign language, understand the basics of how government and business actually work, or have the energy to push back intellectually against me or against each other" so maybe it is a little tongue-in-cheek and maybe he is looking for a valid intellectual push back...

Nonetheless, your comment regarding fruit is most apt, as in my eyes, the very nature / focus of academy seems to have changed - from one of developing thinking skills to one of developing people skilled in a certain type of thinking.

This (in my opinion) is the thing that let me down most while I was studying - instead of learning how to approach solving problems, the focus seemed more on learning how to solve certain problems, which I believe will make certain degrees (by year graduated) more-or-less obsolete as the problem domain has shifted on, which may in turn lead to a decline in technological advancement as we'll run into new problems without a clear understanding or process of approaching these situations.

Of course, my view is but one data point in many many thousands, and I studied at Canterbury University in New Zealand.
Yes, that also happens quite a lot, the cost of having someone look after your children is substantial. I've heard school be referred to as the cheapest child minders that could be found.
Just because people use electricity and have running water doesn't mean they are abandoning their culture to embrace western values.

Is anyone actually surprised by this? That's some serious western arrogance.
Many years ago I wrote a Data General (now owned by EMC and no longer making computers) Business Basic to C translator. Used it to port a suite of programs to Unix system. So the technique can work. But I agree with Russell, that Python would be a better target these days. You would need to take care to ensure that the generated source code is easy to read and modify by those who are familiar with the BB original.
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