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Your situation with your family sounds terrible, but I think one important thing you should realise is that you are NOT responsible for their well-being. The desire to help is both understandable and laudable, but you should not confuse it with obligation.

Ultimately each of us makes our own choices about our lives (even if that choice is to depend upon others - many make that choice without consciously realising it), and in this case it sounds like your family are choosing not to improve their situation, and also trying to make your life choices for you. I have a friend with similar familial issues and from experience I would suggest that you at least enforce some boundaries so that you can live your own life successfully, and if they won't play along with that, consider that you may have to leave them to fend for themselves and forge your own path elsewhere.

We only get one, short life - please don't spend it in the service of people who don't appreciate what you're giving them, or actively obstruct your efforts to help and improve your own lot.

Their situation is NOT YOUR FAULT. Repeat that every day until you believe it - if you want to help them, of course do so, but make it a matter of choice and try to do it in a way that doesn't ruin your own life.
Has anyone read Apress's Pro Git by Scott Chacon? Do you recommend it?
Unless you are currently making really good money I wouldn't leave for 1/2 of what you are making and less then 1% in equity.
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Close. It is widely assumed that the dark matter is, on average, stationary with respect to the Milky Way. The amplitude of the modulation is a lot smaller in this case than what you described.
I don't think we should have to sign up for coupling with a specific Ruby's runtime internals just to get cross-platform compilation of a shared library. For whatever it's worth, even autoconf can be made to work cross-platform.
I just accidentally deleted my post, but here's a rewrite.

Constraints:
- little/no capital required.
- location independent, or available at your current location.
- must provide enough income to service/remove debt.
- should provide a routine.

Assets:
- can do "everything but coding", with most experience in a tech sector
- a reasonably large amount of free time.

Possible opportunities:
- sales, for either a local or a remote company, either in-person or on-line. any product.
- consulting (niche yourself and show you're really good at one of your many skills, and pick something that can be sold without always being at the client site.)
- what else can you do?

I'm attempting to strip away the emotional baggage from the situation, to make it easier to see what might be possible. Maybe that could help.
I never said that you "can't explain things" with video. I said that your videos work very well for review. The medium has changed, but you're doing the same thing that has always been done. If the goal is to get past a test or quiz, then I'm sure students love it. But will they understand it in a month? Two months? A year? They won't come back to leave those comments on youtube.

I simply ask you to watch the video, and respond to it. I think it makes valid points, and it agrees with the research I've read on how students learn (Available for free here: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10126).

If you truly want to build, and learn (which I certainly want to), don't flippantly dismiss critiques. Just because all forms of effective teaching don't go viral on YouTube doesn't mean that they're invalid.
Is your current pay average, or above average market rates?

How much did they actually raise? 1-4 million is a wide range for a 4 man operation. Even at 1M, I don't see why they would only offer 50%, specially if the founders are taking a regular salary.
> That's getting close to paranoia.

Selling users' personal data to data mining and advertising companies is very common. It's not really paranoid to think that Facebook would do such a thing, considering that they call their users trusting dumb fucks and blatantly disregard their users' request for decent privacy.

> EU law is enough to keep you safe

Most of the times when an American Internet company have been challenged by EU law, the response from the company has been, "We're an American company, and our users uploaded their data to our servers which are placed in America." Then there's not much EU can do.
You could make your point even stronger: since the barriers to entry on the internet are so low, it has the potential to be a lot less intellectually constraining than an ordinary classroom, where typically there will be one teacher, with standardized lesson plans, teaching from a relentlessly bland textbook that passed through the censors in Texas and California.
You got 5 comments and six upvotes when you posted it two weeks ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2588415

One of the comments was "I'm too old for this - might suit a 6 year old though."

But more helpfully, your title does absolutely nothing to make me want to click on it. Why should I want to look at it? "Facemouth"? Really? Moving on ...

So your HN submission title needs work. You could also make the effort to submit it when the "newest" page has items more than 35 minutes old. Watch the page to see when items are submitted more slowly, and stay on the "newest" page longer.

Additionally, bit.ly links are frowned on here. Let me see where I'm going - there's no need to shorten it.

And finally, FWIW, I don't have an iPhone.
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I agree with him on those points. Where I disagree is when he suggests that taxes should be used to pay authors. It is difficult to justify that in the name of "freedom", imo.
The sad thing is that we put a stop to this (and came up with first sale rights) when they tried all this crap with real books.

Now that books are digital, I guess we need to do it again.
Hate to burst your bubble but comparing demand for alcohol during prohibition and demand for quasi-anonymous online value transfers is what most folks would call an obvious strawman. What percentage of the population of the US do you think has even heard of bitcoin, much less understand the underlying concepts?

Everyone I know that's even aware of (much less involved with) bitcoin atm falls under the following demographic: young technophiles. A small minority of these are buying up more GPU's and giggling about the "free money" they're making.

It's a mistake to confuse speculation on the part of some early adopters with actual broad public demand. Expect popular demand for bitcoin about the time that credit cards stop working on Amazon.com.

In the mean time the IRS has every reason to stomp on this before it gets any bigger and all the excuses legislators need have been laid out on a silver platter.
Good points.. it would be the same for a person who wants to get into programming but doesn't own a computer.. they still have to get the cash from somewhere to buy the equipment.

Many years ago, I was in this exact situation. I planned accordingly and saved until I could buy a cheaply made desktop and taught myself how to code.
Why would anyone want 10 tutorials?
Materialistic negationism is the only coherent position, since there is only material. Everything else is just as religious as the religions that atheists bash.
I just used this for the first 'real time' with my wife and kids while I am half way across the country. And it was simply an amazing value add to the call

Add 3G support and getting carrier approval would allow this to become more universal. I hope this is the case and not another 'tethering' moment.
Boston here, they enabled a 6to4 for us. We don't have a public v6 address, but we can use the ipv6-ternet.
Matt -

I have "succeeded" (helped lead a company to acquisition), but I have also failed many times over and run myself in to significant debt with more recent ventures. Never Give Up

I hit days when nihilism gets the best of me, and I think "why am I doing this?" The solution is surprisingly simple, in some cases:

Get exercise, get vitamins, and get caffeine.

Proper exercise and vitamins will give you energy and reduce depression. Caffeine will get your mental gears turning and pump up your adrenaline - it will give you fuel to burn and motivation to burn it - try to limit yourself to 200 mg/day at most though. If you face more significant depression, go to a psychiatrist and they may prescribe you Prozac or an equivalently "harmless" drug. Depression is a mental sickness that we don't often realize we have.
That might be true of some people. For someone coming from a small town where everyone told him that he would go on to do amazing, wonderful things, it can be very depressing for him to learn that he is nothing special.
Depends, how good a programmer are you?
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It's also somewhat dangerous. I can't remember the details, but there are places where you, effectively, can't give away your own work for free because the government is trying to protect you.
Perhaps to keep themselves busy?
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I like to say "Entrepreneurs don't take risks. They take advantage!" I think VC's like to say they manage risk.
Could someone please add the question mark back to the end of that title? It's a rumor, not a fact.
Yes, a lot actually. South America is on my radar for this very reason. My thinking is that if employers, clients, or other startups aren't seeing obvious/immediate value in my collective experiences, that companies/projects in other parts of the world might. I'll look around HN to see what others have done in this area.
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The story picks up and expands on topics introduced here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2623628
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Mattman, in case you're not aware, the email field in your profile is invisible. If you want to allow people to contact you, please add it to "about" textbox.

I have no specific advice for you. But I do want to cheer you on. Good luck and know that many of us are sending you our best wishes
"the financial district is home to the hottest restaurants, lounges and nightlife...."

"The city should give up wasting time on banks and bankers"

These two sentences do not jive.
50% less seems low. Everything is a negotiation. Remember this. If you think you're worth more (and you obviously are since you make 2x of that offer right now), come back with a counter offer that's 50% more than what you currently make. If they say they can't do that, then you can always counter back and push for more options in exchange for less cash.
I was going to recommend that living with the parents might free up some time to hack out a new idea, but I see you aren't a developer. As such, I'll suggest a non-programming idea: rebuild the old version of Techcrunch. Write a blog about cool startups. Actually use the products, provide screenshots and reviews. Don't write about Apple,Google,Facebook,Twitter, or funding rounds greater than 1 million. I promise you'll have at least 1 reader ;)
I read Seth everyday. I love him. But I found this article hard to understand.
>Samsung could be a good buyer for Nokia. It could switch over the supply of Nokia's internal components to Samsung thereby creating synergy. Samsung could swap out Symbian with Bada on lower end phones and (depending on the Microsoft contract) Android on the high end.

I don't think Samsung would stop the Win7 phone production, or convert existing phones to Android from Win7. They already have a few Win7 phone models that reviewed pretty well. This would remove a potential competitor for those phones, as well as put them in a better position to deal with MS about the OS itself with Nokia's technology and supply chain.
On a very basic level, he isn't all that different from Warren Buffet, who is widely known to live quite frugally given his worth.
Now what does Facebook need from a Pixar Animator? I wonder what his Linkedin connections are to Facebook employees?
"Massive" in this case is terribly subjective. I think the typical definition is concurrency between 10k and 50k. Whereas when we (at Urban Airship) wanted to hit 500k, the only reasonable way to do that without resorting to pure C was by using the JVM.
Think of it this way.

Imagine you have more money that you will ever spend in your entire life. You've bought everything you want, go anywhere you want, etc. and still have billions left over.

Is this really any different from having a $1M in the bank, being perfectly happy, and not spending any of it? In both cases you have more than you need and you're happy.

For many people saving and living frugally isn't a means to an end, it is the end. It's how they like to live their life, and being able to do so while keeping the bills paid makes them blissfully happy. That there may be millions of unused $$$ in the bank is irrelevant to them.
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One with two-factor authentication. Not sure about US, but in Singapore all local banks has two-factor authentication in place. Rather straight forward. You sign in with user id and password. After few seconds, the bank will SMS your mobile a code for you to enter in order to get into banking site proper.
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I don't know how he spent his money, but he did have a great home and could afford to have his family live there comfortably. He hired quite a lot of his family members, and I remember some of them along with other workers made good salary.

What I gathered and what I heard from others that have been associated with this company, is that workers were happy and quality of work was above average for this type of industry. As a young lad, it showed me that the employee/employer dependance is a two way street, which is not always the case in many companies.

Thing that tied it all together seemed to be a good work ethic and not necessarily working harder to exhaustion.
You do not need to be building a new venture, or taking risks, or trying out unproven ideas. You need to get a job and make money so you and your family don't starve to death.

It sucks that you're in a place where nobody shares your motivation, but you still need to eat.
Ask HN:  How to create a decentralized insurance system a la bitcoin?
How could one create a decentralized disruptive health insurance system a la bitcoin?

I have a general idea for it as a protocol that would track insurance pools with limited terms and risk factors. Each pool would consist of diversified risk profiles and of course it couldn't be anonymous if payout and risk factors were to be attributable. The advantage I could see immediately is instead of the excess pool money going towards profits it could be distributed to all pools equally. This ensures increased overall value the longer the system stays active. It is similar in nature to a life mutual but different in several ways.

The main issues I would like to get my head around are two fold: 1) How do you distribute benefits? This could either be by consensus or formula or value of the account (so its zero sum). 2) Coming up with a programmatic way to devise pools. This is probably the biggest problem because from my understanding insurance companies use actuaries and massively complex formulas to do this work now.

I know there are economic and pragmatic issues that may make this unfeasible but I thought I'd throw it out to the brains on here and see if there was any reasonable way to achieve such a thing. It would certainly be great to make insurance more efficient, less centralized, and hopefully more affordable.

Disruptive technology, solving all the developed world's ills.
You mean the one available for free here: http://progit.org/ ?
I'd like to think that I've thought about this, but almost every interest of mine involves something that in no way shape or form includes being around for my family. But you are right in the fact that I need to focus more on what I find enjoyment in / take pride in.
Who is the average Perl developer? I'm a student. I should probably know less about Perl than a junior Perl programmer - and I know almost all the keywords.

Is simple.wikipedia.org really better than wikipedia.org for the average English speaker? If your only argument is that simpler language lets more people understand, why bother saying words like "unknowable"? Why not say "not knowable"? Isn't it superfluous to have these words in your vocabulary?

Being able to accurately express an idea quickly has it's value.
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Contact them and ask about any meet and greet or co-founder matching events they are hosting. If they aren't, then you may want to suggest they do (that should win you some brownie points for when you do apply).

Also check your local meet-ups:

http://www.meetup.com/Birmingham-Open-Coffee/events/20668251...

http://www.meetup.com/The-Birmingham-Entrepreneur-Meetup-Gro...

http://www.meetup.com/Warwickshire-Entrepreneurs/events/2005...
The power goes out a couple of times a summer, at least on the west (?) side of De Anza; the grid down there is very bad, and on more than one occasion, during a product launch or very close to, the transformer under the gas station (!) would blow (!) and we'd all have to pack up and head to campus to camp out in a conference room. Good times. Oh wait, no, the other thing. Bad times.
I don't think Samsung would stop making Win7 Nokia phones. That would be throwing away money. But depending on the exclusivity clauses in the Microsoft deal Samsung might start making Android flavored Nokia phones as well. Samsung is strongly aligned with Google and just hedging its bets with Microsoft.
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Going by what you've told us, I don't think "how fair is it" is the question you should be asking yourself!
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> programming is a great way to have the zest for life sucked straight out of you

Sounds like you're in the wrong field. Just because you find the thing a drudge doesn't mean others feel the same way, and personally I find the cynical 'well real-world programming is ultimately crap' specious and poisonous - to you it is, to me it is not. Why are you still doing it? And why are you stating it like it's some immutable fact we are all avoiding somehow?

Personally, I find programming a wonderful, amazing thing even when working on the most incredibly dreary software, and of course considerably more so when working on the more interesting stuff.

This kind of stuff is unfortunately common and applicable any + all professions + activities out there. If everybody listened to the nay-sayers, nobody would have tried doing anything.

tl; dr: haters gonna hate.
To find the one that helps them the most? Not everyone learns in the same way, and not everyone teaches in the same way. The more choices you have, the more likely you are to hit on the one that lets you really grok something.
What about your own subjectivity? How would you explain the difference between red and blue to a blind man, or what it feels like to fall in love to a robot without the appropriate subjective apparatus (or even to someone who never did (yes, it exists))?

See http://clm.utexas.edu/~compjc/papers/Tononi2008a.pdf and the next two links for what I bet my money on regarding scientific theories of consciousness.

http://www.coma.ulg.ac.be/papers/vs/boly_PBR_coma_science_20...

http://www.coma.ulg.ac.be/papers/vs/massimini_PBR_coma_scien...
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I'm interested in knowing how they came to these conclusion? Focus groups? User testing? They mention Google Analytics but that won't tell you that users are overwhelmed by the amount of text on your page.
That's some nice theory, and it's obvious the author hasn't had much experience implementing real applications where sharing code is possible.
Things like these help separate the clueless from those you should pay attention to. It's a Good Thing.
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Quite daring, to plan such a building. Who knows whether they will need the space, four years from now? With multiple buildings, it is easier to make corrections during construction or even afterwards.

Also, it will be a challenge to make that underground garage look as beautiful as the building. That is what most visitors will initially see from the building.

Finally, will this be a real click wheel or a modern version without moving parts? :-)
Why not take the time to learn to hack? What with all the internet resources out there, IRC, mailing lists, and whatnot, it doesn't really matter where you are, and some 'peace and quiet' would be good for the concentration you'll need.

At that point, maybe you can have a go at doing something along the lines of "Start Small, Stay Small":

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003YH9MMI?ie=UTF8&tag=...

The idea being that with a niche product, it's not going to be an all-or-nothing venture, and you'll be able to run it just fine from wherever you are - no need to be somewhere where startups are 'hip' and you can recruit 30 people after you get your millions in funding.
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Of course it doesn't need to be this way. Hopefully, they'll extend the 7 line to Jersey and continue adding subway lines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_Subway_Extension
All of the native extensions that would break would notice.
Any competently written CSS will give you that without the resets and normalizers nonsense. Just normalize elements you want to normalize, without polluting your inheritance chain and making yourself pain to debug it.
I've been writing CSS for god-knows-how-many years and never ever saw the need for it. And yes, I do cross-browser sites (and that even includes Opera).
And does anyone with a high school level education in history even understand WHY the archduke of Austria was assassinated? Or WHY none of the powers at the time could pull out of the resulting domino effect? Or the onerous terms of the treaty after the first war? Or the discontent it sowed, leaving fertile ground for a dictator to emerge? Without this context, how could WW2 ever be understood? And even this is glossing over a lot of important stuff, such as the various nations' foreign policy, public sentiment, local politics, and how it affected pretty much every operation of the war.

Who even remembers operation Market Garden or why it was significant?

Does anyone even know why and how bombing of metropolitan centers even started? Of course not! Easier to say goodies vs baddies and forget the details.

History is already taught without any useful context in school. It's rendered so dry and boring and detached from humanity that I'm surprised ANY learning happens at all.

Khan is doing very high level, very loose connections at the moment which, I'll admit, contain even less information than the school system pulp. However, I'd be interested in seeing how deep he goes with subsequent videos before passing judgment.
The history section is sketchy and just a beginning. Instead of latching onto the fringe of the Academy, History (perhaps because the math was beyond him), the author might have constructively suggested how to beef it up, present multiple views, talk about morals vs perspective.

Instead he chose to bash a popular figure. Probably because it gets hits on his blog, but who knows, I'm cynical.