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They're middle-class because they're working for a salary. That's obvious. You can be middle-class and rich - $200k/year will do that to you - but you won't find a lot of upper class people drawing a salary as their primary income. Perhaps some doctors and lawyers might at the upper end of the scale, but in tech? No.
That was his point. Read the rest of his comment.
If you think that MOP for Perl is something big then I'm not surprised that Perl doesn't make real progress anymore.
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that guy is full of shit

check out the REAL JOKER:

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/hey-you-yeah-you-you-can-be...

In the comments section of this post, he mentions that he's going to finish the editing process of his book by 30 september

Now check this post:

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/why-isnt-my-book-done

He's a fucking joker!
This incoherent rant should convince Sam, Jon, and Lee to cut their losses, if they haven't already.

Spending 20 hours over a weekend to bang out marketing materials is supposed to be impressive? How about planning ahead and using something like Crowdspring and VistaPrint to get these distractions completed.

Promising to make $10K in the first six months is supposed to motivate? You didn't share how you plan on doing that except, "I will make it happen." Have you demonstrated in any way in the past six months that you can deliver on this promise? Promises, wishing, wanting, pleading are hollow gestures.

A grand vision and clear plan on how to achieve it, a track record accomplishments and successes: these are the things that make a good leader. They are the qualities that inspire others to do great things.
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Haven't we all been there though?
I really, honestly thought that this guy was showing us a parody of a letter from a desperate, clueless manager on a failed project.
I guess this demonstrates some startup-kool-aid varient of Poe's Law.
It was just an example -- the browser is by definition limited. This also has advantages, but experimenting with new capabilities is not one of them.
GMail Labs has a "send in background" feature which does exactly this.
hey, it was just a question.
There is no way to view your links outside of the Apple's browsers, it automatically archives links you click on even once, even if just to peak, and it's entirely locked to the Mac and iOS devices. For the target audience the feature was designed for (clearly not my mom), it falls short in many ways. I don't think anything's killing anything quite yet.
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That's better, but it doesn't solve the problem: the username and password must be entered on a page that has been potentially modified in transit.
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Much as Reddit now has these impressive numbers, I think they have issues of their own with their new community. Before the Digg fiasco their numbers were lower, but the community felt settled and involved. The surge in numbers eems to be mostly kids, who can be very fickle in their online habits. You don't have to hang around reddit long to see how shallow and repetitive the content has become, which isn't going to keep people around for the long haul.

Mind you, the subreddit system means there are still pockets of worthwhile discussion. Reddit may be very glad of this bedrock community in years to come.
as an engineer I've worked for this type of douche idea/business guy. When doing exactly what he says, he says "somethings just not right", then I ask "ok what is it then".. he responds "I don't know its just not right". DOUCHE.

Then he tells me to take more initiative, and I do. Then I get an email like this that says why isn't things getting done, and I say.. because I'm doing things like setting up stupid accounts that he could be doing rather than writing stupid blog rants like this. Or why are we using x service instead of y service, "well you told me to do what I thought was best". He responds "Well its not what I had in mind". DOUCHE.

He promised me trips to asia, bonuses, and days off when the product is a success. He hasn't told me how much equity I have or vested, because he said that another thing we will deal will when we are successful, but its been over two years, and I'm still having to listen to his stupid rants and fake motivational emails. DOUCHE.

People like this are poison, and working for people like this will kill you inside because slowly as an engineer you'll dream, why can't I work with a real engineering team that can just write code, solve tough problems, work with cool tech and why do I have to deal with this bullshit.. when this douche needs me more than I need him. But because people like this have money, and there are always people willing to sell their services.. he may get a product out and may bullshit enough people that he has is something useful, but thats the way the world works.
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I went to the school that the article talks about. It's a private school. It's not anybody's tax dollars. (And we did know how to do math.)
There are several senior people in this administration who are in favor of Hollywood generally. They've really been pushing for this on all fronts. I'm not saying it can't be stopped, but I am saying that they have supporters in high places.

If you look at the subtext of the discussion held today, it was arranged to make it appear that this is Google vs. everyone else. Sure, that's because most other opposition was excluded. Some might think that's why the rest were excluded.

Politicians see this largely in economic terms. This would be a good time to point them to the economic studies which show that the costs already outweigh most of the public good and to drive home how this bill would kill our ability to create jobs by hitting startups with ridiculous legal burdens.
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The guy who wrote this article sounds like the kind of person who wants to get everyone to do his work for him. His personal problems are leaking into his work life. He probably needs a vacation or to change lines of work. He's not a joker, he's a bitter old bastard (regardless of his age).

Advice for the inexperienced doer: Don't listen to this guy. Pace yourself. Do what you need to and make time for yourself. This guy wants to smoke a cigar in his office while you kill yourself. This is his attempt at being 'the boss man' and it's transparent. You will never be happy making people like this happy. If this kind of verbal abuse makes you feel bad then seek therapy don't work late every night. Stand up for yourself.
Yes, he definitely has a Jesse Pinkman vibe going on.
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If people are more annoyed by parking tickets than by people parked in the places where they prevent traffic and provoke accidents, then we should consider toning those down and/or making rules less strict.

But I guess that if the problem really exists, people would be pro big parking ticket fines, because a minority who get those also annoys the whole population.
Certainly I agree that one cannot succeed in one's field without deep knowledge of the fundamentals. I just wonder if constant cramming for exams is the best way to attain that knowledge, in place of exercises that actually attempt to apply knowledge as it's learned.

And I'm willing to acknowledge that perhaps I'm not giving enough credit to contemporary engineering curricula, in which much of that 'study' time might be devoted to problem-solving exercises in place of preparing for tests of one's memory.
And guess what? Apple proved that cheap and abundant software is really the way to go.

People were right but the industry took a while to catch up.
not mentioned in the article, but this could be a huge help for electric cars, and to the solar power industry.
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Is 10k/6mo really that impressive, even on a shoestring budget in Japan (where I assume Sebastian is)? I mean, that's a 5th of what you could earn as an engineer at jrandom startup in the bay. Even biz-dev/product types like him (not engineers) are probably getting close to 100k now, if not more.
Surely this guy is joking.

"A joker is someone who does not complete something, and has excuses. Don't be a fucking joker."

and later

...Hannibal is his greatest hero, the guy who ALMOST conquered rome, but had a great excuse for not doing so.

and

"Now, here’s the score. I had a very fast, but totally possible timetable. At first, we were on it, and killing it. Then, one of us slipped. I don’t know who slipped first, it’s irrelevant. Now, we’re all slipping. "

Right, so the timetable doesn't include any latitude for delays.

and

"I can do marketing campaigns, but I need product and tech set up first. I mean, it’s not optional, it’s a core dependency. All of this shit was supposed to be done weeks ago."

Sounds like an excuse, sounds like he should stop being a joker and just GET IT DONE. No excuses.

This guy is deluded, lives in a separate version of reality where he has excuses but no one else can. Excuses can also be reasons why something is not going to work.
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one or both of the main people behind SO are "Microsoft stack" guys, so I'm not surprised.
But it is a stupid statement. There are good reasons why things can't get done sometimes, and no amount of shouting or motivational posters is going to change that. Eventually when you are running towards a goal and not planning, you realize you can't just continue, you have made a mistake and are heading in the wrong direction. This get it done attitude ignores this face.
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Even in the post he is making excuses why he can't mail out a newsletter. Surely he should just get it done, not come up with excuses. That is classic Joker behavior right there.
He hasn't done anything because he didn't say he'd do anything. He's not a joker, man!
Putting the Sex Ed classes into a broad category of 'improving people's mental health' may give quantifiable estimates of benefit[1]. The monetary benefits of regular education (most directly measurable at the university level [2]) are an order of magnitude less valuable (on a happiness-per-dollar basis).

Normally, I'm not really a fan of the 'soft' subjects (compared to the hard sciences). But giving people at least a minimum level of knowledge about something as basic to life as sex (or understanding depression, for instance) should (IMHO) be a priority.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness_economics#cite_ref-13
[2] http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-money/2011/06/06/is-college...
Speaking from a background of math, where you can literally find out everything from first principles if you need to: Memorization is useful, and reading even without memorization is also useful. It means that you have more tools at your immediate disposal, without having to hit the books or the internet. In the same way that there's a vast gap between knowing the rules of grammar of a language, and being able to string a sentence together in a conversation, there's a similar gap between knowing facts and theorems, and being fluent enough with them to pull them into a proof when you need them. The extra familiarity from extra studying vastly expands what you're able to do with your tools, and how quickly and easily you're able to do it.

It's worth pointing out: Getting real experience basically confers the same benefit, and probably does it better, but not all engineering disciplines are as fortunate as software engineering in the availability of experience. A programmer can just fire up an editor and start making programs, with zero cost and near-zero risk. A civil engineer, say, cannot start building bridges with anywhere near the same ease.
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I'm mostly a CS major, so maybe not an engineer, so my experience may not be entirely relevant. One thing that's different is that while we may work harder than business majors, we certainly don't spend as much time in books. In fact, for most classes, just going lecture and doing the projects, homework and labs is enough for most people.

In CS, most of the time we spend is probably working on either problem sets (for algorithms classes) or projects (for more programming-oriented classes). In both cases, there is an extreme spread in how long it takes people--some people finish in hours what takes others days. However, in every case, very little time is spent memorizing; we just have to understand difficult concepts and be able to solve complicated problems that combine them in weird ways.

As for weeding out students, CS is special. It is a well document fact that a significant subset of the population just can't manage the sort of thinking needed to succeed in CS; this leads to even very easy classes getting scary reputations.

Finally, we come to career pertinence. I'm still a student and my only experience has been in simple internships. However, even there, many of the things we've covered have been very useful. While it's reasonable to just pull a book out (well, not a book--just the internet ;)), we need to learn everything we're covering to even know where to look, and, often, to know that we need to look anywhere at all.

Ultimately, all the hard work just gives us the baseline to identify problems and consider possible solutions to look up. Chances are, by the time we get to solving nontrivial problems, there will have been interesting advances anyhow--only the big ideas stay at all constant.

If you've never learned about how a computer is structured, you would never consider optimizing an algorithm for cache usage. On the other hand, with a CS degree, you will know enough to look up your processor's specs and twiddle around with the code until it "magically" becomes much faster. The main point of my education--as I see it right now--is to get me to basically that point in all of the sub-fields of CS.

The other big thing that all the work tries to instill is how to think like a programmer. If you've programmed on your own, you've probably started developing this; if you haven't, it's particularly important. For some people this step is difficult; others don't need much help. In the end this ability is extremely important in the real world.

So yes, I might never use MIPS at work but I will know enough to look up x86 if I really, really need fast code or if the compiler is optimizing weirdly.
Do they get paid more if the company does better? Yes, this is the only reason to do more than asked from your job description. Otherwise you are putting money and decision making power into the hands of people who did not earn it. Only bad things come from uncompensated work; A bitter employee, angry co-workers, and a misunderstanding of where profit is coming from by the business analysts can ultimately hurt business. If someone is making the company more successful pay them more otherwise tell them to slow down. If you are of the later mindset then YOU are not benefiting the company.
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I would say it's a little from column A and a little from column B.

On the one hand, no I don't need to know calculus formulas off the top of my head for my daily work. Even if something came up, I could kick my textbooks out of the attic and look it up. Most of the actual, job-specific knowledge in modern programming is either domain-specific information or integration "plumbing" knowledge. Although the practice from doing engineering homework is helpful, you can get better practice faster in a more direct form by simply holding down a programming job or working on an open-source project.

On the other hand, if I had never read my textbooks in the first place, I wouldn't know which ones to reference for solving problems I encounter later. Many of the problems you face in real-world programming are ones that have already been solved somewhere else, but if you never heard of the solution, that doesn't help. Real problems also are not conveniently labeled with the name of the algorithm that solves them, so you need to know the solutions at a fundamental enough level that you can recognize and apply the solution to apparently-unrelated problems in disparate fields. That usually means you need to know it at an academic level. There are theories and rules-of-thumb from my Artificial Intelligence class that I consider to be the most important programming knowledge I have precisely because I understand the issues at that level.

My feeling is that studying engineering formally at college is the second-best training you can receive for programming. The first-best is working on a programming job at a company that has a nice, deep technical bench and the willingness to mentor you. However, most companies with that much technical capacity will only hire you if you're at least somewhat trained or experienced to begin with, so the real alternative to college is working by yourself and teaching yourself programming. The effect of teaching yourself will depend somewhat on how good you are at teaching yourself and a huge amount on sheer, dumb luck, since you might pick a terrible place to start learning and quite patently not know any better. So I recommend majoring in engineering if you want to be an engineer. It's not the only way, but it's the most practical and likely one.
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In my experience, none of the class I (an EECS major) or any of my engineering friends take involve much memorization. The involve understanding a few concepts very thoroughly and being able to creatively solve problems that combine these ideas in really weird ways.

In fact, all of my classes allow at least one sheet of notes to all the exams and I've even had one class that was entirely open-book. Additionally, the graders tend to be rather forgiving for details--thinking consistently is more important.

Even though an engineering degree might be harder and involve more work than something like Political Science or History, the latter two require much more reading and memorizing.
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iTunes, however, is available in my country. I'm sure we'd get the stock answer claiming they're working as hard as they can to bring it. In a year or three.
For those if you who have never had sex, how does this (seeing this article) make you feel?

Please be honest. - I feel a combination of envy and hatred (but I wish I didn't feel like this.)
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If he wants to overwork, then he may, but he cannot expect it of others. If others are expecting him to overwork, he doesn't have to comply.
This is exactly the philosophy that Google Wave had, except they called it an "optimistic" UI - it always assumes that every action will succeed on the server side.

It solved all these problems mentioned and more - for example, it used the operational transform algorithm to merge your changes with those of other users on the same page and update the client state to reflect this asynchronously. It also could continue working without a network connection - it'd just keep queuing your requests, and when you plug in the network again, it'd just start working again, albeit possibly with a big backlog of changes to merge together.

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If this was some of "motivational" speech, he might be ok.

But as an email it just looks insane.
I really really hope he loses his best employees for this rant. We shouldn't encourage this kind of behavior. Receiving this email would be enough to make me immediately start looking for other work.
> I would be fine with automated fines of $100 being handed out to people downloading a file illegally and I think that would be a more effective deterrent than the present lawsuit madness that rules copyright.

And then enough people challenge the fines to break the system. You still have to guarantee some form of trial.
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Even if you disliked the original comment, this one is trying to clarify a joke. Now a serious question - is humor discouraged on HN? Because it's not the first time I run into something like this.