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> But, it's still $500. That's real money that could be used to earn more money somewhere else.

On the other hand the 2000$ bike is perhaps so much nicer that you ride it more often and have more fun doing it. It might last longer as well lowering the fun factor even more.

> With things like digital cameras (or any consumer electronics), it's silly to expect anything to last more than 10 years, on the very long end.

I think that's an unreasonable assumption. I had a Kyocera camera (designed in 1999) but even though I would call myself frugal (some people would call me cheap) and I didn't have much money I basically had to replace it around 2006 because of technology progress and lack of batteries, replacement parts.
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This is something I've never understood.

Considering that a new car loses a huge chunk of its "value" the second you drive it out of the car dealer's, if you're buying new the only sensible strategy is to drive it nearly into the ground. If you have to pay a wrecker to take it away, I agree, you may have taken it too far. But unless there are obscure tax reasons, I can't see any benefit to flipping cars regularly.
I'm from the NE, and the word "frugal" does not mean the same thing here as it does in the South. As someone above said about New England, frugal is an art form here. Frugal is spending more on Calphalon cookware because you don't waste a ton of money eating out 3x a week, and want cooking gear that lasts a lifetime so you don't have to spend more money re-buying cheap stuff later.
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I think you are reading too much into the comment.

I can throw out or resell a 400$ laptop with some ease; not so easy with a more expensive model. (My current laptop is a MBP that I got from work)

I can't invest too much on a bed as I can't lug it around with my bedouin lifestyle. I can imagine that is the case for quite a few people.

It's great that you have stability of location but that isn't true for us all.
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I think this depends on the definition. If you define it as "Given any competition with n competitors, where n>1, then n-1 of the competitors are losers", and you find 0 persons who have won all the competitions they participated in (which I think is a likely result), then everybody is a loser. Why should I think this is "bad"?
"Pleasure from amassing wealth or things is misplaced."

Says you. A holier than thou attitude about how awful all this 'materialism' and 'attachment to the physical world' is, is also misplaced.
You're absolutely correct. It's a pity I can't upvote only the comment thread without upvoting the article.
I find the discussion here so good it reminds me of the "old HN" days :)
Fair enough. Where I'm from people say "frugal" because they don't want to say "cheap" even though that would be the truth.
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I agree, I'm frustrated that I'm in work and I cant justify readying the whole thing...
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The warranty. Every time I've tried to follow your intuitive logic here I've ended up spending more per month to keep the car usable. Personally I view cars as a tax that I just have to pay, so I get the (long term) cheapest I can that uses as little gas as possible.
The job of law enforcement is to prevent crime, to detain criminal suspects and to gather evidence.

If the police are talking to you then by definition they are trying to incriminate someone, that's their job. Police officers are obliged to use any legal means available to obtain evidence - anything less would be negligence. As they are obliged by law to tell you, anything you say or do can be held against you in a court of law. You have a legal right not to incriminate yourself, but you don't have the right to un-incriminate yourself in hindsight, even if you incriminated yourself only inadvertently. If you have evidence that proves you did not commit a criminal offence, then it is in your best interest to use your right to legal representation to ensure that you give that evidence as clearly as possible and do not say anything that could undermine that evidence.

Not talking to cops is a basic principle of privacy, like shredding your credit card bills or using a password on your e-mail account. Once information is out there, you can't get it back, so it's your duty to preserve it at all costs.

If talking to the cops made sense, the cops would be doing a lousy job.
I've worked with 2 start-ups. Both had a major
feature release every 4-6 months with minor
releases every month or two.

Great, so you've extrapolated your experience to the whole ecosystem. I'm not saying that at Piehead you don't build websites at a faster pace than others, but even if you do, it's a selection bias, since you're only comparing others that are similar to yourself.

Here, I'll give you an example - suppose you want to do natural language parsing, a fairly hot topic these days. Try finding me supporting libs that would do that and that are better documented or mature than NLTK (the Python library), which doesn't work on IronPython btw.

didn't want to jam a bulleted list of start-up
names in the middle of the article

That's too bad, as it would have done more for the point you were trying to make than all the other blabering you wrote.

almost everybody is a follower in the tech world

Yes, but most valuable projects also add things of value that the original projects didn't.

How's the deployment story these days for .NET? Does it have something like Capistrano yet? Why should I use a half-baked clone of Ruby on Rails, when I can go for the real deal and have thousands of cool plugins to choose from? Why should I use NuGet when you can have the really mature Debian repository and rubygems.org/CPAN/PyPi?

PHP and Ruby both evolved from Perl

Both innovated in certain ways over Perl, I'm not advocating for revolutions. In both cases you can see clear benefits that those languages / ecosystems provide over Perl.

That's not the case with .NET - it's a proprietary technology, having all the cruft of Java, while not having all the benefits of Java - like a strong community or integration with anything under the sun.

MVC was in use before half of us were even born

Funny you mention that, because ASP.NET is not MVC. It also makes you jump through hoops to have MVC, mostly because of that braindead postback mechanism.

And not all MVC frameworks are created equal. If you can't see the benefits introduced in ASP.NET MVC that were copied from others and that weren't in existence when half of us were even born, then there's no point in debating any further.

There are about 20,000 start-ups listed
in the BizSpark directory

Then what was your blog post about?

There are pros and cons to both ecosystems

You aren't showing me any pros of .NET, and that was my whole point. Article is vague and filled with hyperbole.

If PHP, RoR, Django or some other platform is best for
your project, use it, but don't hide behind hyperbolic
psudeo-facts.

Well, hyperbolic pseudo-facts are countered best with hyperbolic pseudo-facts. Am I right or what?
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Invest in yourself and those you care about at every opportunity. Enjoy life from the proceeds. And never spend to simply impress others.

And value your time. If you don't, no one else will.
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One thing I do is to allocate a bit of money each week to "lifestyle", This is the amount of money you allow yourself to waste every week. In my case it's around $25.

Situations to use it:

* Treat myself to a $10 lunch instead of a $5 one once a week

* Just pay for parking instead of driving around of 10 minutes looking for a free park.

* Catch a Taxi instead of walking or waiting for a bus

* Want a coke and the nearest store charges $4/can? just pay it rather than spending 10 minutes looking for a more reasonable price.

* See a cheap toy or a book that looks interesting. Just buy it.

Depending on how rich you are it could be more or less than $25/week. Somewhere between 0.1% and 1% of your income perhaps.
You're probably right, if you're buying new.

I once read about a strategy that made a great deal of sense to me, and that was to buy a 2-3 year old used car from a new car dealer, and sell it after 2-3 years to a private party.

There were all sorts of good reasons for that, some of which may no longer be valid, but some of the reasons were that a 2-3 year old car still had a lot of value but was at the end of it's steep price depreciation curve, and that the new car dealer didn't actually know how much the car was worth, they just knew that every day it sat there was another day of insurance they had to pay for, and sort of more proof to them that the car was not worth much. Also, by buying from a new car dealer, the car was probably in pretty good shape, the worse cars they had gotten rid of, the rest they had fixed up and cleaned up at rates that you or I couldn't get.

Because of that, with good negotiation, you could, in a sense, capture much of the profit the dealer had just made by giving the former owner of the used car a terribly low resale price followed by selling them a high priced new car.

They just made 20,000 by cheating the former owner on both ends of his deal. They don't know how much the used car is worth, but they are scared of it sitting there, and if you know how to price it, value it, and negotiate for it, you can get them to go very low on the price just so they can move it off the lot. You could in fact buy it for far below market rate. That was the theory then. And my own used car purchases showed that to be reasonable.

The claim was that by buying so cheaply a good used car from a dealer, you could sell it in 2-3 years to a private party at a good market rate, but probably very close to what you had paid for the used car 2-3 years earlier.

So... This strategy has actually worked out very well for me. And kept me in some very fun, relatively high end convertibles, starting with a Saab Turbo 900. Buying used cars from new car dealers seems to be a winning strategy.

But you have to remember to flip them. And that's been hard for me to do, in part because like an idiot, I drive too many miles to work, and have no time for selling cars to private parties. But if you're going to put a lot of miles on cars, I think you do need to either flip them or drive them to death, which is one reason I recently bought a low end econobox.
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I don't know about Ferragamo, but I do own several pairs (gasp!) of shoes in that price range from a famous shoe brand here ("van Bommel", for the Dutch reading this, and in case it matters). They will last for decades with proper care and resoling every couple of years, but that's not the reason I bought them; I'm pretty sure that after 15 years I'll want something different, vareity being the spice of life and all. It's because they look super sharp under my (priced to match, second gasp!) suits.

I have no way to measure if the dressing up has ever made a difference in a deal or presentation. Or that the extra confidence has ever been the tipping point. All I know is that the engineers who go on and on about how they're sticking it to The Man by doing their demos in jeans and sneakers stand there looking like just another barely socially adapted dude from the lab, while those who dress to look the part are the ones that people come to afterwards and remember.

Appearance matters. Not understanding this, or trying to be a rebel by breaking rules you don't fully understand, makes you a hacker who is only capable of hacking code (or circuits or whatever); and incapable of understanding and 'hacking' social customs and psychology.

(PS It may be different in the US, around these parts Mephisto is a brand for old people with bad feet; good shoes but not something you'd wear as a (even slightly) fashion-conscious professional. Is Mephisto 'fancy' in the US?).
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>I can throw out or resell a 400$ laptop with some ease; not so easy with a more expensive model.

I disagree here. If you pay $400 for it what is your resale value after a year? I wouldn't even pay $50 for a year old $400 laptop since it's nearing end of life. A good MBP, however could be sold three years later for half value or a little less. This is not a bad option for people who want the quality but can't afford a new one (and unless something big changes in the line it's not always so compelling to get the newest model anyway).

>I can't invest too much on a bed as I can't lug it around with my bedouin lifestyle.

Sounds sensible.

>I can imagine that is the case for quite a few people.

I can't imagine this being a very high % of people.

>It's great that you have stability of location but that isn't true for us all.

For me the key is to be sensible with money. If you're getting the cheapest thing because you've actually thought it out and it doesn't make sense to go for the long term (e.g. because there wont be one) then fair enough. Most of the people I know who go cheap do it because they're too intellectually lazy to work out that they're actually spending more in the long term (and conversations confirm this, I'm not being cynical).
A little rant about the beginner's tutorials for the Arduino:

I'm trying (or was trying) to get into the Arduino/electronics stuff but by far my biggest problem is not the super easy subset of C++ they use in their IDE (hell, most of the time you don't need pointers) but the electronics stuff.

Pushdown/Pullup/Voltage dividers, RC circuits, etc. All that fundamental electronics stuff is never discussed in depth. They give you a circuit schematic with let's say a voltage divider and a temperature sensor and tell you: "That's the schematic and that's how you do it. That thing on the left is called a voltage divider. It divides voltage. And now for the hard part: for-loops and Serial.println()"

Is there no beginner stuff for people who know how to code but are puzzled by the electronics part? Where they explain you why you have to put a voltage divider into the circuit and what it exactly does.

Maybe I'm just ultra stupid and all the other people reading those tutorials get an instant grasp of the circuits used and are really hold back by for-loops and curly braces. Or my method is just wrong and I shouldn't try to understand everything. Just copy circuits found on the internet and be happy?

(Yes, I'm reading electronics textbooks - sadly they are not that easy to understand for casual learning on the weekends.)
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It's easy to say "spend $30 extra" when you actually have that money. There were times when I was in debt, and had like $10 on my bank account, and so many personal problems I couldn't handle work. His advice was pointless at the time. That advice is pointless for anyone who doesn't have free $30 to spend around.

My verdict: the author lives in a bubble that he has created and paid for. However, that bubble is also his prison; it suppresses his ability to make sudden changes in life.

I am fairly ok with sleeping on the street, since I've done it a number of times, so when it comes to making a mildly life-changing decision I'll be more confident about taking a risk.

Look, I like sitting here in a nice couch, typing on a Macbook about how hardcore I am, just as much as everyone else does. But ultimately, a nice couch is just that -- a nice couch, and a candle in the bathroom is just a fucking candle. And in a hundred years, no one will care if you had a nice couch or a candle in your bathroom, but they will if you wrote a book or created something beautiful.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't fractal rendering a large blocking operation? This looks cool but it seems to me that node is the wrong tool to use for things like this. Is this a 'because I can' experiment and not geared for practical use?
I disliked the article itself too, but find that the nice discussion it caused balances it out.
In game development this is also used for performance reasons. Although the performance penalty for memory fragmentation on the GPU is of course much smaller than the HTTP issues. But think WEBGL and tools like this will always have some place in some projects.
24 months seems to be fairly standard.
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I think I get it, but it could be a lot more accessible. Law-makers (not lawyers) would be less wrongly opposed to something they understand.
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30 minutes a day is about 2% of your life, not 0.03%.

If a less comfortable bed makes it take longer to fall asleep, then that figure just got bigger and there's an extra cost in time every single day.

If a less comfortable bed means you sleep worse, then again there's an extra cost in happiness and productivity every single day.

Now, whether spending more on your bed always makes it more comfortable, and whether that makes you sleep sooner and better, is a separate question. Got any evidence that bears on it?
I would not say it's a limitation of CSS per se, more a limitation of what can be done with the spritemap CSS hack, because fundamentally that's what it is: A CSS hack to attempt to reduce page load-times by causing fewer HTTP requests.
actually, you can. well, at lest for 1 dimensional repetition. but the sprite image dimension will be limited to either vertically or horizontally. i use this one: http://csssprites.org/ --> "Spriting" x- and y-repeated images: SmartSprites supports turning background images repeated along x and y axes into sprites.

(on a side note, has anyone compared this with SmartSprites?)
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11? What the hell am I talking about? I meant 7, sorry.
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Rendering each pixel is one large, blocking operation, so it can be parallelized easily. But it's true that node is not the right tool because node is good for minimizing I/O waits which you don't have while rendering fractals. And (as far as I understand), node only runs in a single thread so you'd have to set up multiple node instances to fully use a machine. Which again wouldn't be geared for practical use.
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The key word there is "guaranteed". I'd much rather know that I'm going to spend 1-2 hours at the airport, than have no idea.

On a leave-when-full plane, you may be there for any length of time from 20 minutes (if you are one of the last to arrive), to maybe 2 hours (if you are one of the first to arrive), to maybe 4 hours (if you arrive just as the last one leaves, and there isn't another one arriving for a while).
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>He also keeps his fortune in tax shelters

His "fortune"? You know he's a college professor right?
But nail clippers, for heaven's sake!? He sounds a bit like Lifestyle magazine clientelle.
Yes, it is a really awful article. I'm sure it's not the worst thing to ever be #1 though. Some of the specific advice is interesting, even if oddly wrong on specifics. Box springs aren't really important unless the design of your frame or style of mattress requires one. There is way more to buying shoes than getting the most comfortable ones for <$100.

Maybe I should write some call-out in overly emotional language about how you, Hacker News reader, should do ergonomics better. Probably I should just write it in earnest, but then it probably won't be interesting enough to capture the wisdom of the mob.

I'm not sure if the author of this piece even realized his own thesis, which was basically "spend money on ergonomics" and instead he linked it together under the guise of being frugal, where frugality is a great attribute that is in reality divorced from the logic of this article.
That's kind of good, but my procrastination doesn't seem to fall to such a category.

When I procrastinate, I'm not doing anything sensible, which includes trying to apply any anti-procrastination technique.
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> In .NET, you have to install the WCF REST stack

Well you don't have to. If I was just writing services to only return JSON to a web-page, I would just use ASP.NET MVC which has good built in support for this, e.g.

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Now you have a url /MyController/MyJsonAction which will return the JSON string { Id: 1, Name: "MyName" }, no stress.

WCF is complicated, but it is powerful too, especially if you need to support multiple bindings (e.g. REST and SOAP endpoints for the same service). Also, if you need to support the SOAP WS-* standards, it's a life-saver.
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