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LinkedIn has a stub page saying "I don't really use linkedin".

His 'About' page has this: "I worked as an entrepreneur from 2004 to 2008". That's it.

From 2009 onwards, there appears to be a lot of stuff about travel, and sleeping less, and "purifying my diet".

I have some friends with bios/resumes like this; these also happen to be my "rich kid" friends.
Finally! Even in hacker forums, many people talk louder than they can deliver.
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I think, this is in part a consequence of the deification of Steve Jobs, who might have adopted a similar stance towards his partners/employees. Such behavior is now automatically assumed to be acceptable by some subset of people. The No Asshole principle is passé. The author may have written such an email irrespective of Steve Jobs influence. But the audacity to post it on his own blog for everyone to "admire" certainly has to do with the publicity around the Jobs' supposed douchiness.
Don't be blinded by the abuse of copyright by megacorps. The idea that if someone works hard on something, they ought to have some commercial control over it is sound. Imagine you wrote a 1000-page novel. Isn't it reasonable for the government to grant you exclusive publishing rights for 14 years? It certainly seems like a sensible incentive for you as a creator. It's hard to make the case that you deserve nothing simply because copying bits is easy.
5275 words in the past two blog posts in the last two days. Want more time in the day? My advice: quit ranting!
I don't mind swearing, but the persistent f-bomb really adds nothing here...
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Telling someone not to go to their university classes so that they can crunch on your $generic_web_app should be a jailable offense.
Mac platform reaches 15-year high with 5% worldwide market share.
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This trend should really help get more developers on board. Mac software is already very good, in fact I don't feel like there's really much missing. The only hole would be in gaming and the fact the market share is growing globally should incise these developers.

Of course Apple has this 5% share because of their slim product line and you can only run Mac OSX on Apple computers. Considering all of their products are medium - high end they aren't able to get much market share from emerging markets.

This should be good news for Chrome OS and maybe Linux as it shows users aren't just focused on Windows. These OS' can hit the markets Apple can't.
Instant gratification beats quality for most people.
I always thought he was HN's version of that "Coach"[1] guy who is on Survivor?

Play Guess Who said it (answers at [2]):

Unshakable. Unbreakable. Unvincible like a sword. I know who I am.

Strategy, Philosophy, Self-Discipline, Science. Victory.

Time and place, that sort of thing. But why not just say it, man?

If you flat out lie to me, you’d better be prepared to go to war.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Wade_(Survivor_contest...

[2] Quote 1 & 4 are from Coach, 2 & 3 are from Sebastian.
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There are many concrete examples where the productivity of a programmer may be positive or negative.

For example:
How many more tasks did you complete on average?
How much time did you require the assistance of your colleagues?
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So the productivity multiplier is either over 1x or under 1x. When you multiply it up together for all the members of your team, and you normalize so that the lowest multiplier is 1x, you might realize that in fact some co-workers can be 100x more productive than others.
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I got the point of the email, thanks.
Even more sad is that this post only exhibits a mild level of douchebaggery relative to some of his others that have made it onto the front page of HN.
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I dig the anti-joker sentiment, but this is a bit much. It's good to keep a team motivated, focused, and dedicated to their work but this reads like the author got a sign from god that he and his team were inventing the "next Facebook." The big problem here, though, as others have pointed out: there's a glaring desire for money. Money is the keyword throughout the entire email. "I'll foot the bill," "I want to make us rich," "we can rent a beach house." What happened to "this idea is really cool and even if we don't get rich, I want to make sure it sees the light of day." Joker...
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Good for him for getting shit done and empowering his troops but unless their financial incentives are as strong as his, he's just another psychopathic manager for asking them to sacrifice for him ("skip your classes", etc).
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I don’t see how it’s possible for mdda or you to have quantitative evidence either way. I doubt that there are any surveys or studies that include questions on all of the following: whether people can compute angular velocity, whether they know how to have sex, whether their life is a success.

I’m guessing mdda arrived at eir conclusion that understanding sex is more important than understanding how to compute angular velocity by reasoning that far more people have sex (as evidenced by children) than get jobs necessitating angular velocity calculations.

I’m not sure how useful understanding the equations for angular velocity in daily life really is, because I don’t know those equations myself. I can say, though, that I feel like I intuitively understand angular velocity well enough and that knowing the equations wouldn’t help my life much. And I would guess (based on personal experience and observation) that people have sex more often than they have to deal with something spinning around quickly.
It's amazing that it's still only 5%.
True, though I'm not sure that's the generally accepted definition of "joker." I think this screed could be better summarized by the catchphrase "Git 'r done!"

Ironically, said catchphrase was created by one Larry the Cable Guy — a noted comedian, or professional "joker."
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I work my arse off for my company/manager when the heat is on.

I know that when I commit to get something important done by a time X, I get it done or have put in all the time I could on it. So do other people on the team. My manager doesn't ask me or other members of the team to stay late unless it's important. We keep the pressure on and keep working away every weekday all day.

My manager never written anything like this to the team while I've been there. And for that, I am pretty glad.
Not sociopaths, psychopaths. Sociopaths tend to be introvert / loner types.
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Your question is a bit perplexing.

- Smart people implies that there are stupid people.

- Your difficulty of finding smart people implies that they are few and rare (in your vicinity).

Conclusion: You'd should perhaps ask yourself which category you truly belong to. Or maybe you truly were the only smart person from your collage...

When I was in collage I met a lot of smart people, they were good at different things.

Protip: What do you mean with "smart"? Good at mathematics? Programming? Social skills? Ambitious? Often when people want to hang around "smart" people they confuse them with "rich people with lots of connections". And those people ain't necessary smart yo' they be dumb as a door knob. Privileged however.
maybe i don't have experience with many other mail programs but this is what thunderbird does also, its not unique to outlook. I hate outlook because its slow (UI search and UIwise) and because its stupid enough to think that storing all its mail data in a monolithic file or small number of files is a good idea, hello corruption problems.
I'm one of those programmers that can't ignore the implementation language. I don't do 2nd-class languages without understanding their host environment fully.
Not if you can bank on it, as Amazon has.
Am I the only one here that actually liked the article? Regardless of this guy's resume, or the grammar, or the presentation, he has a point! This...

"You’re all highly highly skilled, top 1% at your craft. You’re all highly highly intelligent, top 1% of the population. You’ve all got excellent social skills, top 1% communication skills. And yet, you’re middle class. Have you reflected on that? You’re the top 1% IN EVERY CATEGORY THAT MATTERS, and yet, you’re relatively poor.

Do you know why? Because you haven’t stopped being a fucking joker like the rest of society."
Does all the study do much for you engineers when it comes to your careers?

When I was an undergrad (warning: liberal arts majors), I had a lot of friends who were engineering students. I asked one if all the study was all that relevant. He said once he was in the workforce, he wouldn't need to have every little thing he learned memorized because he'd have manuals to consult and pull off the shelf when he had a problem he couldn't solve on his own. Another engineering friend seemed way more energized by the assignments where he had to come up with an actual solution to a real problem, in contrast to cramming all night for some horrendously difficult timed test.

So is all the ceaseless studying of engineers really just an effort to weed out those who are not diligent?
I love the feeling of immediacy users get when using AJAXy applications over render-view-submit-rerender applications, and my users actually comment on this to me (not in as many words, but they say that it is "light", "fast", "easy to use", etc), but the development costs of going the extra mile to asynchronous strikes me as likely to be very high indeed. It already costs me about ~5x development time to do something client side versus server side, just because of how much time wiring up Javascript takes. (And praying it doesn't break, because Javascript is orders of magnitudes harder to test than Ruby is.) The costs for rewriting the entire app to exist simultaneously in the browser and the server, and to magically never fall out of sync even when users do something user-y, scares the heck out of me.

The whole toolchain for reasoning about stuff happening in the browser is still laging a few years behind what we have on the server, which is a related but larger problem. We have Firebug, which gets us truly revolutionary features like "output log messages... in a browser!" and "inspect the internal state of objects in memory... in a browser!" But many of the rest of the cutting edge developments from the 60s and 70s haven't quite made it to the browser yet, or they're not yet at the point where they can be used by mortals. (Selenium: I want to love you, and yet I can't actually use you for anything because you break my brain.)
I find this to be quite hilarious. I just came back from a movie at my school called "Race To Nowhere" that touches on the issue. I then participated in a 45 minute discussion with members of my community, including my principal and other staff at my school. I was going to go onto Hacker News and make a very detailed thread on the topic....but someone stole my thunder. I will be back over the weekend to discuss this. I obviously can't leave with just this post since it's a pretty low quality post. So here it is:

We must shift the focus of education back to education. It is ridiculous to believe that a single letter can show how much work a student put in to learn the content. A "C" can be given to a student who puts in their best effort but just can't remember when to use a semi colleen. Yet an "A" can be given to a student who crams for the test the night before, yet can't think critically on any subject.

We must rethink our approach to education, and shift it back to education, rather than to that test at the end of the year.
I find it hard to take someone seriously about not being a joker when they keep reverting to capitals to emphasise things. If someone was telling me that my social skills were the top 1% while frequently using 'capital emphasis', I would not hold that evaluation in high regard.
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> He should've written "demand statistics", that would make his point more clear.

That's a different point. Since there is no shortage of folks complaining about demand results, it's reasonable to assume that he meant what he wrote.

Besides, why is demand statistics wrong? Why don't you think that we should know how well (or not) things are going?

> Also, when did we get "crap results" with "trust the teachers"?

Trust the teachers is what we did before the current testing mania.

> Was there some point in the past where we were using standardized tests

Huh?

> abandoned it in favor of 'trust the teachers' and watched them turn out a bunch of lazy hippies?

Trust the teachers seemed to work for quite a while. Then we noticed that it wasn't working.

Are you claiming that US education worked better right before the testing mania?
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"If you are always running your business with a sense of urgency, you are going to burn out. You are going to burn out your employees."

That's not really true. If you're always running your life with a sense of urgency, you're going to burn out. But your life doesn't have to be your business.

I'm a big fan of the "give me six good hours a day" school of thought. You're not at work your whole life (or maybe you are, but you're not doing urgent stuff your whole day). You don't expect your employees to be at work their whole lives. But when you are at work, you focus on the tasks that need to get done, and you finish them. If problems come up, you figure out a way around them, redo your plans, and adjust your schedule accordingly.
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Yep, parental furor is the core issue. Schools can't really teach anything that touches on social 'value' issues, including religion, sex, gender, ethics, morality -- even the strengths & weaknesses of capitalism vs socialism are basically off-limits in K-12. It's a sad state of affairs but unlikely to change given the diversity of opinions and the structure of public education in this country (US).
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You can just think of objects as containers, if you have a bunch of functions that are related, but don't need to hold a specific "state" around them, then the class is essentially just a grouping (i.e. classes that just hold static methods), if nothing else, having them in a static class makes code more readable and organized, IMO. Its always been my belief that OO makes code easier to understand in a large codebase but I would agree that not everything necessarily fits cleanly into an object, however I can't envision any other way of making a large project work for a higher level business application, I can see why they may not be as needed in lower level programming.

You mention that you're a systems guy, so maybe the type of programming you do isn't necessarily best suited for OO, but for some domains, like business-specific web apps I don't think there would be another logical way of organization, it is a form of fairly "high abstraction" from the 1's and 0's so it only lends itself to certain uses
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No, it is important for you to get a good grasp of the fundamentals. Even if you consult references, like everyone does, without a strong background in the material you will have trouble applying what's in that material.

When I say "fundamentals" it really covers almost the entire engineering undergraduate curriculum. There is so much you need to know in engineering before you can start doing anything of value in the "real world". Most people learn those things in their first few years on the job or in graduate school.
That's the point where I was irrevocably lost. Skip my classes for a possible trip in asia if we happen to do really, really well?

Made me think of the 'Screw you, pay me' guy.
if that had just a BIT more flash I would be all over that.
so it does. holy shit. i wonder how many articles I've only read a piece of because I thought Instapaper was stitching!
I think you're just saying I'm biased because you're biased against people who disagree with your biases.
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I love this coding style, but I think you have a valid point. Python decorators are a nice compromise in that they allow you to have cleanly factored 'around' advice (which is strictly more powerful then 'before' and 'after') with the implementation defined elsewhere, but still requiring a visible marker at the location the advice is used.

What would be ideal is a system that allowed you to define advice by monkey-patching but indicated what advice was applied to a method at the site of it's definition. As mentioned in this comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3246215, I think we are bumping into a limitation of what can be easily managed in "unstructured" (I would say "dead") text files.
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The thing is, you can follow all the advice and platitudes given here and you still may not get rich.

And, sometimes the joker gets lucky.
the problem isn't the conclusion he drew, it's that he made a causal link (at least he used causal language, "as a result we grew up X") instead of drawing a correlation. This would be wrong regardless of whether the conclusion was actually correct because no matter the conclusion, his experience is insufficient to make that causal link with high confidence.