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Rebuttal to "A hacker's loneliness" / Part II
You guys realize that getting laid and writing good code and loving what you do are not mutually exclusive.

Just like how you taught yourself code, go learn to dress well. Learn how to be interesting. Learn to be the norm; there's no shame in that.

Talk about what you love. Have passion. It's really not that hard.
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Are people up-voting this because they think it is funny, or because they think it's real?

It's neither.
I have the benefit of having enjoyed the best (and worst) of both worlds.

When I was 13 I had a crappy old PC that I used to take apart and fiddle with. When it bust altogether, I pretty much forgot about computers.

I reached 14, I lost my brother, and as I watched my family crumble I turned to drinking and smoking weed. Yes, at 14. I hung out with the wrong crowd, I did things I shouldn't have and I spent my school time living up what was deemed the "ideal" social life by my peers.

A year or so later I got really in to computers again. I started making web pages; I got a new (old) desktop which I tweaked up and geeked out on. I progressed from HTML and CSS to PHP (and yeah, I know that PHP has a bad rap amongst most hackers here, but I like it), spent all my time in IT at school etc. I gently progressed in to a real computer nerd.

Looking back now, I can honestly say that the time I "wasted" messing about with computers, teaching myself how to code, etc.. they were the best of my teenage years, and I have no regrets on how I spent my time. It is who I am, I enjoy doing what I do. I wouldn't change for anyone.
Remember, 700B pays for around 400 space shuttles.

Just to give a sense of scale.
A monocle, a cape and a vizier. Then I'll do whatever he tells me to do with it.
I don't see how this is different than any of the other "Non Hacker News" stories yet this one gets approval. What's up?
Entrepreneurs and...Hey, There's A Shiny New Thing
$50K is a lot of money! Can any household still be considered poor with $49K a year?
Five Programming Books I Couldn't Survive Without
Taming Trees: B-Trees
Police close file on BT's Phorm trials
Wu-Chess? Startup? Seriously?
Invest 50 billion and spend each years profit trying to build a real working fusion power plant, (~1 new ITER style plant design per year pick the best one and build it every 5.) when that's working invest the 50billion in power plants and keep growing till all the worlds energy needs are met. I expect 20 - 30 years till first one works and then massive ramp up.

50 billion 3rd world sweat shops to jump start the worlds economy.

100 billion, retro fit a lane on all US highway's with electric grids / contacts so there is no need for battery systems and we can go electric now. I would start by targeting the commercial trucking industry and then move to cars.

1billion fun money for me.

And I don't know about the rest.
I just want to add some more inputs -
1. Remember, Semiconductor industry people still don't get the "Social" aspect on the web.
2. They question "What's in it for me?" for Submitting news aspect.

I'm trying my best to convince every single user about "community/Social/WIIFM" aspect, but I would love to hear your thoughts/inputs about how would you create a community in such situation?

-Aditya
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Or they could allow East Europeans like me to work. Then I would not have come to the US.

But ya' know what, you didn't want my poor over educated Eastern ass a few years ago, so I came to America, no regrets, fuck you people.
"Since then, through trial and error, he has developed a winning formula: brief, simple books with eye-catching covers and provocative titles—and no business-speak. Tribes, for example, is a 147-page, anecdote-filled call to readers to become leaders of a movement, or "tribe."

Instead he just makes up or misuses words, which is often just as bad or worse than "business-speak."
Apostrophe-S is not a plural!
Tipjoy is hiring developers at its Boston area office
Tipjoy is hiring! http://tipjoy.com/jobs/

We are currently hiring killer developers to join us in our office just outside Cambridge, MA.

Are you the best developer you know? Tipjoy is going to be huge. Because we only want the best, we want you to be a part of it.

Tipjoy is a new micropayments service that will revolutionize how payments are done online. We're strong supporters of free culture and currently support a voluntary payments model. We make it extremely easy for people to leave tips for stuff they love online. Rather than turning people away by gating content, Tipjoy allows people to choose to leave a tip for a content if they think it was valuable.

Requirements:

0. You need to be really, really smart.

Plus:

1. A sense of aesthetics and design
2. Deep knowledge of the tools we use: Linux, Python, Django, Javascript, CSS, and some Flash/ActionScript
3. Experience in configuration, scaling, and deployment for servers and databases.
4. Experience managing complex, dynamic systems (especially people)

We like effective people that can focus to get things done and make real things. We're building a culture which demands excellence. We understand that anything that lets you perform better is worth it: fully loaded Macs, enormous monitors, Aeron chairs, food, etc.

Apply by sending mail to founders@tipjoy.com

Make sure to tell us about something you've made that you are proud of. You can also try your hand at these puzzles:

1. Puzzle 1: explain python generator expressions in 140 characters or less and tweet the answer to @tipjoy
2. Puzzle 2: Concatenate the page source for each level of http://www.pythonchallenge.com/ and find the number of times the substring 'tipjoy' can be found via character removal.
3. Puzzle 3: Make up a puzzle which can be solved in less than 30 minutes which we're unable to solve. It must be possible for us to find the solution, and you need to know it.
Solar electric for, back of the envelope, maybe 1/3rd of the US total electricity supply. I'm not an electric power expert - maybe someone with actual expertise will correct me.
vying to be slower than groovy?
Hmm, somehow I managed to have a computer habit AND friends. Also some drugs, some drinking, etc. Of course, my grades weren't stellar in high school; something has to give.
I would agree - and combine solar panels on the moon that is beamed back to earth.

Ideally if you could figure out how to build a factory on the moon to mine and produce the first wave of robots/solar power too.
wow. this program is the bomb
A non-failing bank, I hope.
You walk the walk, but do you talk the talk?
If you'll settle for Zimbabwe dollars, that shouldn't be too hard to arrange.
Ask HN: Anyone interest in working with me on an iPhone App?
I started an prototype a while back and think it would be perfect for teenage girls on the iPhone. I call it 'DoodlePop', you snap a picture and then get to doodle in rainbow colors crazy stuff on top of the pic then send it to your BFF.

Pop me an email if you're interested donna (at) genuus dot com

and I'll share the code I have.
No path to citizenship? Not interested, sorry.
Wait. Do you really think that people are going to give a crap if they are good actors at age 7?

No. They're expected to screw up and it looks better on camera anyways.
Not a bad list, but missing a few important ones: SICP, TAOCP and OSDI, for starters...
Hrm... seems somehow topical, given that I fetched the Reia sources from git and started playing with the language:-/
Better yet - 612B is what Pentagon is getting in 2009.
When I was in middle school, I badly wanted a guitar for my birthday. My mom had delayed for more than a year, and at last gave me a talk about how I was tone deaf, and would have a lot of problems playing guitar. I told her I didn't care, I wanted the guitar anyway. Turns out, I was able to teach myself tones and pitches, and I ended up being quite good at guitar.

At a young age, the point is just to give exposure to many experiences, so that they can learn what they love and what they might like to be good at.
> Mostly because its linear, and its "easy" to scale linearly (its called going and buying more RAM!)

It's only easy if your system isn't maxed or if your data segment isn't already at its limits. (64 bit addresses cause yet another round of bloat.)
One of those rare cases where the title actually loses a bit as a result of the missing ! at the end.

Should be:

"Entrepreneurs and...Hey, There's A Shiny New Thing!"
I found that the 'ant turd tokens' were the most frustrating thing to learn/remember when I was playing around with erlang.

goodbye ant turds
Sounds like the key difference here is that you're married.

Apparently what ever you do is worthless if you can't get a va-je-jey, and totally worthwhile if you do.

What if you're a virgin, who's gotten super rich through hacking and is donating tons of money to charity and changing the lives of countless people?

What if you're a broke, jerk, selfish hacker who gets tons of pussy?
Having passion about your interests is a great thing, but it's important to be able to relate to other people, and monomania is often pretty insulating. Steve Buscemi's character Seymour in the movie Ghost World comes to mind: Enid asks him what his interests are, and after a bunch of buzzwords about musical categories that I don't remember, she says, "Ok, let's just say, 'music'. What else?"

I'm very interested in programming, but I also really like to cook, bicycling, and several other things, and find those are usually easier for people to relate to. Maybe you like to write, or skateboard, or you love paintball, or have a growing interest in photography, or something. An interest in programming and being able to have a social life are in no way contradictory. (Seemingly unrelated interests also tend to cross-pollinate.)

Also, let's please not fill up the front page with rebuttals to rebuttals to rebuttals.
How about the Gnome guy?
I am dying for a move to reddit button.
SDK shoot-out: Android vs. iPhone
Best startup advice of the month
You know what I would do if I had seven hundred million dollars? I would invest half of it in low risk mutual funds, and then take the other half over to my friend Asadura who works over in Securities...
research in space travel, terraform Mars, build cheaper space shuttles
Two chicks at the same time.

Seriously, I have no idea what I'd do with that amount of money. If I was completely selfish maybe I'd buy an island somewhere. I sure as hell wouldn't use it to bail out a bunch of failed businesses whose executives have been giving themselves multi-million dollar bonuses.
How many kids were you trying to support?
What happens if you decide not to throw any trash "away" for 365 days?
How to lose credibility and jeopardize your project with lack of management buy-in
I laughed at your euphemisms, but beyond that you make a valid point.
Nokia N96 16GB GPS (Mini Computer)
Nokia N96 Shell is Painted a sleek black that gives it a very serious demeanor. But the exterior is just there to let users know that this phone gets down to business very quickly, offering them instant accessibility to its features.
I would hire a team of 87,000 competent developers to develop better documentation for java, C#, javascript, python and ruby. Oh yeah, erlang, OCaml, F#, a few others.
if the 700b came from debt like it is in this situation, you're only delaying the problem
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Intellasys 40-core CPU (why should cores be in powers of 2?)
I'd buy a sovereign country and break it up into city-states, and allow them to compete with each other as an experiment to see which policies and forms of government are the most effective. It would be kind of like Pokemon for social science geeks. You could have libertaritopia, commietopia, fascistopia, etc, and you'd get to see what happens. For motivational purposes, after 50 years I would have barbarian hordes burn and pillage the unsuccessful ones.

If I couldn't find somebody to sell me a country I would build large offshore platforms or rafts that would fulfill the same function.
Sorry if I didn't make my original point clear enough.
If that is true, I'll start questioning why the price of the DVD LOTR Trilogy Extended Editon here, costs us around a third of average monthly salary.
Space shuttle demolition derby, then?
Great point here as well.

People often feel like they wasted their youth regardless of how they spent it. They always feel they could have done more, could have been more. I have heard the same stories from friends who made it to a very high level in sports - they feel they dedicated too much of their life just to one purpose too. The same goes with the socialites - they often feel they just wasted too much time at parties and all those blend together with time.

It actually reminds me of a key point in my life when I was talking with a close friend of mine. He had just returned from an amazing trip backpacking through South America for 4 months and he told me he was envious of how I could be so stable and driven towards my one goal of starting my own company. I was shocked, because I felt the exact opposite and wished I had went on that trip with him.

Such is life, and it is full of compromises.
Is a collage degree made up of other degrees that are cut apart and then pasted back together to form pretty pictures? (couldn't resist).

I wasn't shooting for the poor. I was shooting for a bunch of people. It's roughly half of the households in the country. That's a lot of liquid capital to inject into the economy at once -- around 5% of our GNP.
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Yeah it's a lot of money if your still living at home and paying no expenses. I make 120K a year and barely get by. It's all about the debt I'm afraid and the fact that prior to 2 years ago I was making on average 20-30k. My life sucks.
It will be interesting to see what kind of new services will now come online as micropayments become more available.
Short the dollar into capitulation :)
Judge Declares Mistrial in RIAA Case
Pandora’s iPhone Mobile Ad Platform launched today: Best Buy and Becks nab first positions
Nearly half of Google's products are still in beta
Patrick Barwise, a London School of Business professor of management and marketing, tut-tuts that while Godin's writing is "very readable with lots of examples, it's not grounded in research. His arguments are oversimplified and overstated."

Sounds lot like academic marketing aswell. It's not that rare that highly regarded authors suggest different views or even complitely contradict views and solutions to same problems.

Its not like actual science, you know.
Yes I agree. I just want to emphasize the "causation" effect because people here generally dislike piracy but they don't have a choice. The price is so expensive. It's either we pirate it or we don't use it at all.

It's kinda remind me of why the President of Romania told Bill Gates that "piracy helped the young generation discover computers".
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070201/224452.shtml
Go to war with IRAQ!
Y Combinator’s SocialBrowse Launches To The Public
3 biggest MSFT competitors according to Ballmer
ZenCart – open source professional ecommerce software solution review
Invest in the stock market.
It's pretty commonly accepted to use an apostrophe when pluralizing an acronym. It might not technically be correct, but it improves readability, and sacrificing readability for correctness is silly.
Build nuclear power plants, and fund fusion research. Permanently end our addiction to oil.
Congrats guys! Looks like a pretty cool idea. Installed it, will start "socially" browsing soon...
Build a huge space station...something that can be seen with bare eyes during daylight.
Don't we already have a bunch of states competing with each other as an experiment to see what form is the most effective?
this is not a story, this is a legitimate question.
A "Federation" if you will.
Cost of living in boulder isn't bad... certainly nothing like Aspen. When I was a student here I was paying $400-500 (my share) a month with room mates in a 3 bedroom. Now I have a two bedroom right downtown (by Pearlstreet) for $1295 (I pay half).

As a startup I was surprised to see that bill... I doubt it will pass, but I had never heard about it.
Build the world's largest super computer. Then ask it what the meaning of life is.
From everything that I've gathered, in Germany at least, the process is less brain-dead than in the US. It's still brain-dead, but there's less insult added to injury.

(Saying this as an American with permanent residence in Germany.)
Google calculator can't seem to do math
I did my undergrad there, and the CS department is very good. For grad school it really matters what area you are specializing in. CU is really highly ranked in some areas, and doesn't have any profs focusing on other areas of CS.
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I would probably build a moon elevator first to get the materials to build the earth elevator. One of the most important things to mine is materials for power generation. Solar in some form or another, for sure.
I don't think the yC model would scale up to 700B.

I think it would be a great experiment, though.
400 space shuttles would be awesome :)
You'd probably be better off with wxWidgets or Qt than GTK.
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Clickjacking: Researchers raise alert for scary new cross-browser exploit
Buy a copy of "The mythical man-month" before.
While I would agree with your observation that everyone in New York is some sort of minority, and that the city has overall ambitions that are much more varied and interesting than simply "you should make more money," I do think that sentiment is a pretty strong undercurrent in Manhattan. I recently began taking night classes at an art school there, hoping to get away from the obsession with earning more that I felt surrounded by, but on the first night of class, I was bitterly disappointed. The instructor spends his day working for Morgan Stanley, and talks about it often; the general population of the class immediately lost all interest in me when they learned that I'm not currently employed.

Overall, I would say that New York has an abundance of different ambitions, but most of them are permeated by a vaguely corporate insistence on caring about getting richer.
With their respective campaigns, Best Buy and Beck’s will be the first to tap the highly attractive and affluent demographics of Pandora’s registered iPhone users who are predominantly male and aged 36 on average. Among all iPhone users, they skew somewhat older with a higher than average household income and wield greater purchasing influence among their family members and friends.

Does advertising work on people like this?
SocialBrowse (Y Combinator) Out of Beta, Opens to Public
Not to pry, but are you renting an apartment or a house?
It will be non-partisan, be free from political influence, and non-ideologically driven.

How much of the $700b will be left over after you've developed the sentient robots needed to staff this place? ;)
700B dollars... Well given the odds of me obtaining that amount of money is just shy of being pure fantasy, I figure the only real answer to this would be in the realm of fantasy too.

So, 700B - here's my shopping list.

Create Jurassic Park
Army of Super Oompa Loompas - perhaps with bionic implants
Moon based Laser "Defense" system
Universal Optional Breast Enhancement Surgery
Giant Robot of Doom
Another Giant Robot (so the first one never feels lonely)
Build an even bigger supercollider, just to scare the bejeezus out of the irrational people
Terraform Mars
Create a religion based around the works of Bruce Campbell

I figure I'd get some change out of that list, so I'd buy a few people a couple beers.

Next stupid question please!
I had a more rebellious teenhood(drigs, drinking, other crimes*), it was fun, but you didn't miss much. Last night i was hunting a pretty tricky bug in a game im writing, all evening i was pounding my head, wondering why my code, which should be working, didn't. When i figured it all out it was a wonderful moment, i had defeated my self, i had become wiser. But unlike a good joint, i couldn't share that with my friends.
"You aren't going to like it..."
I don't know why people still do this... you'd think it'd be obvious while they were making the language's main page. "Oh, this is a new language, maybe I should show people what it looks like."

In my opinion, the very first thing on any language's main page should be a hello world. The very second thing should be links to other simple examples.
You should make clear why you think that's true, since it isn't in just about every situation I've ever been involved with.

You aren't on the board and you aren't a major shareholder.

Your shareholder agreement or employee agreement probably state that you agree to vote with the majority in all votes which is another way of saying you don't get to vote (or gain access to the financials).
You should ask it:

"Will mankind one day without the net expenditure of energy be able to restore the sun to its full youthfulness even after it had died of old age?"

Long-term, that would be the most useful possible way to spend the money.

(Source: http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html)
Are you willing to hedge cloud futures for your startup?
I've been using SB since alpha and its awesome. I just wish I had more time for surfing the internets right now...
10^100: Google calls for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.
Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?
My own view is that acquiring "geek skills" in one's teens and early twenties, increases one's earning potential. From this, all else follows. I freely admit, personally, I didn't have much of a social life in terms of high school or even so much thereafter. I did however get my finger in the pie of the bubble after graduating high school in '99, and that I think has given me more insights in terms of things people do positive and negative in a start-up environment. These insights I think can only help going forward, and so if, even today, I probably do not consider myself a complete "socialite", that simply isn't as important in the long run as earning potential, based on exposure to start-up environments. And needless to say, in terms of "getting laid", to be blunt about it, earning potential is an aphrodisiac. In my experience, the beautiful can be bought! :-)
He does mention that he "...reach[es] for Introduction to Algorithms before Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming every time.", so it looks like TAOCP was intentionally omitted.
This doesn't strike me as a common failure path for startups, hence not super helpful advice. Being awesome is always a prerequisite. But, being first does offer huge advantages. First movers often have a surprising amount of of staying power and really raise the bar on subsequent offerings.
so... it's like Valleywag, just without the occasional interesting post?
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Don't laugh, I actually know a few top diggers who actually do that.

No names will be mentioned, but they know exactly who they are.
It would be pretty easy to knock off all water-borne diseases. Distribute existing technology to clean water where it's needed, or use that newfangled thing that Dean Kamen has.

Bribe all genociding warmongers (e.g. in Sudan) into retirement. Pay for relocation and land redistribution of affected ethnic groups.

Immunize all children in the USA.

Then, with the other 600 billion, I guess you could throw an awesome party.
Well, clearly you have figured it all out :)
yes, we only need the barbaric hordes every 50 years
Online ad growth cut in half - U.S. Advertising Expenditures Declined 1.6 Percent in First Half 2008