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It seems to me that with each caveat your target audience just keeps getting smaller and smaller.

Take me for example - I might be your stereotypical partier. My default Saturdays are at the club and I hit up bars often - but I'm very rarely drunk, and in fact I'm stone sober nearly all of the time. The people I go with are also the same. We get up to crazy shenanigans regardless of how much alcohol is in (or not in) us.

The problem with your thinking here is that you assume everyone in the club is like you, but the truth of the matter is that most of us leave our binge-drinking-plastered-constantly days behind us fairly soon after college.

There is certainly an audience for your post - people with addictive personalities who can't achieve that (very, very wide) middle ground on alcohol consumption. And power to you and them. But you started out addressing to all alcohol consumers. Then you took a step back and addressed this to just "partiers". And now you must take one more step back and realize that you're really addressing a subset of partiers at that.
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They will complain, and you'll be liable to get your liquor license pulled.

Serve the liquor anyway. Get some crazy bootlegger to distill it and have it delivered "Smokey and the Bandit" style if you have to.

OK, maybe not really, but damn is the idea awfully appealing. Government in this country is ridiculously out-of-control, and so totally corrupt, evil and heavy-handed that it would be funny if it weren't real. :-(
Yes. It also works with incompressible flows. I have yet to give mine a test with water. I want to build an acrylic window for it first, and ink the incoming water.
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Good point :-) Getting confused about years, sorry.
Bull shit. Cletus is absolutely right. I'm a grumpy old Indian bastard in my mid-40s and I can find a job without breaking a sweat.

I'm sick and tired of these thinly-veiled-fascist stories that lay blame on Indians, Chinese, Arabs, Mexicans, Muslims, women, young people, martians etc, just because the dude that wrote the story is a big fat loser.

Learn new skills, keep networking, get with the program, learn to compete or deal with it. I'm no genius but my salary did not plateau at age 40.
Great tips and information on how to quit smoking weed. The controversy still continues on the legalization of weed, but the reality still continues that although it is helping medically it is still addictive and harming other people's lives.
Hate? is telling the truth hate? Religion is an idea. Like any other idea it should be subjected to scrutiny and criticism. Unfortunately in our culture criticizing religion is considered wrong. I did not even criticize any religion in particular but criticized a specific idea, an idea contradicted by scientific evidence. Religion should not be untouchable when its teaching contradict science. No Hate mongering or vitriol here. Implying that the doctrine of special creation is flat wrong is not hate mongering, it is simply telling the truth.
"And yeah, those people, my parent's generation sure did screw it all up."

Don't feel bad. There's plenty left for your generation to screw up. You'll get your turn.
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Drunk walking is just as dangerous. Freakonomics Radio recently did a piece of drunk walking and the numbers are surprisingly high.
If you take this nonsense seriously, you conclude that massacring your neighbors and using their territory for "living space" is good policy. That's the actual outcome of nationalism. And for most of this "nation"'s history, the white racial identity of the "nation" was a controlling factor, using the exact same reasoning you are here.

Suffice it to say, I don't trust bureaucrats in DC to judge who can or can't do a given job over the judgment of actual employers whose bread and butter depends on it. And if you enable bureaucrats to keep people out of the country who can produce wealth, then the "benefits of the nation" will wither away. As a worker, let me worry about my own competence and ability to compete; as a consumer and as someone who needs the rest of the ecosystem for my job to exist in the first place, I want the best fucking semiconductor engineers in the world doing the work, not just some "rusty" guy deemed "good enough" to keep out a more qualified candidate by some uninvested bureaucrat, simply by the virtue that the better engineer happens to have been born in India.
This strikes me as terrible advice. Local remains wide open for new ideas. Some of the very brightest current startups are local-driven (eg groupon, square). Local is far from "done". Entrepreneurs who can crack the local nut will be rewarded handsomely.
Very interesting essay. I'm not sure if this is a "French get parenting right" as much as it is "American parenting is screwed up". I'm from Brazil myself, and it's worrying to see that, together with the latest economic changes (higher income), parenting is getting more distant to what she describes to happen in France, and is starting to shaping up the same problems seen in USA. I from a 80's generation and had an education close to what she describes, but nowadays parents work overhours to try to afford an expensive lifestyle, kids are raised by nannies and they basically play videogame the whole day. I'm sure this lifestyle doesn't allow kids to educate themselves with so many distractions and instant gratification around, and in an atmosphere that demands so much from parents (working overhours instead of enjoying the family, having time free for friends, dinners, etc.).
I can imagine several possibilities. Maybe something multiplayer using real terrain, like a scavenger hunt--you could mark objects and leave clues with this sort of tool. In fact, any sort of game that involves actually moving around could benefit from this, and I think games like that could be very interesting.

Another thought is board/card games (like Magic: The Gathering) could benefit from this. You could get nice little animation when you play your cards--not terribly useful, but could be very amusing. You could also have wizard chess like Harry Potter (sort of).

Really, the big trick is being able to integrate with the outside world. So this won't be great for entirely virtual games, but could be used as a "hook" into physical games.
Basically, there are people who think that at some point in time companies will use data about them in some type of very bad way.

No one has a real, practical example of this. If someone can describe a business model that will use this type of data about people's interests to do something bad to them and make lots of money, then this will become a theoretical problem. Even that hasn't happened yet.

There's also all kinds of "don't track me" options available from Google/Microsoft/etc. as well as incognito mode in most browsers. It's time for people to find something else to worry about.
Which companies are paying this, and what type of software are they making?
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First off, it's good to hear that I might be wrong.

But. The discussion here is about the general trend in the industry; nobody disputes that there are companies like Google (and probably Microsoft, Intel) which value experience and expertise. Do you think that across the board in our industry, older folks do not find it harder to get hired?

Third, when did you last switch jobs? I ask this only to find out if you really easily found a job, or you just think you might be able to find one.
... Um, I don't think he really gives a shit about his Klout score. The point is that new systems are within their closed ecology as the norm. People accept and even expect systems to be closed. And he's against that, and was back when there was actually a fight to be had over it. That was his point. He's saying he thinks things are too far gone for any kind of moral stand to matter.

I'd take it even further and say that we'll have to wait for the ebb and flow to work its magic, and only time will solve (change) this.
Plus you can continue to use those services and opt out of Google tracking that stuff or use incognito mode in your browser. Not that you'd want to. Like me, you probably prefer seeing advertising that you're more likely to be interested in.
I apologize if the way I said it was offensive. But I will not apologize for telling the truth. The idea that we evolved is not just an opinion, it is a fact backed by evidence. I couldn't say the same about the doctrine of special creation.
Depends. Software consulting companies prefer < 35 and product development companies are open to senior programmers.
I kind of doubt it. I was using my 233MHz PII up until about 3 years ago to buy things off Amazon regularly.

It's amazing what you can do with some swap and a little patience. ;)
What is even more revolting (to me) is that not a single person has gone to jail for perjury, signing false declarations, etc.

The Obama Justice Department is too eager to settle these cases with a modest fine; when in fact these people should be going to jail. The fines, if any, won't come from their pockets; they will (indirectly) come from ours. Jail time is deserved, and it is sad to see that even 3 years later, none of these scumbags has seen the inside of a prison cell yet.

We can jail a man for 14 years for contempt of court [1], but why isn't filing false declarations in court prosecuted similarly?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Beatty_Chadwick
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What is the price? I'm keen to hear examples.
>remote to a server (either Mac or Windows) with Photoshop installed where I could use it for an hour or two for several dollars or euros per hour?

Nope, against the EULA too. http://www.adobe.com/products/eulas/pdfs/Photoshop_On_a_Serv...
...but being sober is not the same as being on drugs. same fun? no. better fun? define better. different fun.

drugs are a big influence of human history, art pretty much was build on it. you can tell by trends in art which kinds of drugs were fashionable.

it is interesting to "hack" your body with drugs. you change, like vacation from reality.

sobriety is overrated.
I agree with that. I'm personally stuck in one of these positions and it's a black hole that's really hard to get out of. Once you've learned most of what there's to learn about CRUD implementation and gluing them together, you need to get out as soon as possible or a couple of years down the line you'll simply not be qualified enough for any other position in CS.

That or you can write code in whatever spare time you might have from your 8-10 hours a day job. Based on what's said around HN, people putting in 14 hours a day coding are not that uncommon these days, so perhaps it's something programmers are better get used to. Remember to blog, have a rich github portfolio, contribute to OSS and run your own consulting consulting company in the spare time from your full-time job.
exactly. or use Gimp.
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I'm quite torn: I simply can't decide what portion of this post I'm most captivated by. Is it the fact that John knows the exact date from over four years ago that he was booted from facebook? Maybe it's the feat of name dropping a whopping nine different people (I think.. I got dizzy counting) while more or less telling a story about saving a flat file with commas in it. It could be the fact that I just found out that Scoble was a pioneer in the fight for the open web while almost every time I've crossed paths with him in the last several years he's been dry humping a brand new buzzworthy social media platform to death. In the end, though, I'm pretty sure I've settled on the idea that yesterday on what I assume is a professional style radiopodcast thing a number of grown men spent a measurable amount of time arguing about how potentially fair or totally unfair it was that one of them got banned by facebook and also whether heather in 7th period likes one of them.

The only downside of the whole thing is the part where he goes on a broken spirited nihilistic rant about how hopeless everything is while suggesting I may be a social pariah for not having a facebook account.

He and I clearly have a somewhat different perspective on the world, but I am sympathetic to several of the issues he raises. It seems most of his despair revolves around the sense of having "lost" and being overtaken by events. He responds by saying screw it I just don't give a shit about my principles because they aren't working out for me. But the world ebs and flows, and more importantly it needs some people to take a few principled stands about what they believe in and remind people about issues even when not personally advantageous.

Consider what became of the 90's cypherpunk visions as they were soundly crushed by a new millennium bent on ubiquitous private tracking, massive government wiretaps and swiss cheese security. Who would have guessed such an ice age of uncoolness would thaw out in a world where wikileaks was the story of the year, people split dinner with me using money a russian teenager created using a cluster of high performance crypto gear and people organized revolutions online.

Giving up is boring.
They appreciate the taste of the various beverages, not the alcohol (although, to be clear, the alcohol does contribute to the various flavors). Very few people drink alcohol, rather they drink things that happen to contain alcohol.

You might be thinking that I'm being pedantic right now, but having a firm grasp on this concept is important if you wish to understand why people drink what they drink.

Consider how silly it would sound if we talked that way about baking soda.
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>my privacy tools installed

And what are they?
I've just installed CyanogenMod after reading this!
SETT is mine... Applied to YC almost a year ago, didn't get in, been hustlin' anyway.

Right now it's in private alpha, just a group of 20 trusted people running through it. By the end of this month, it will be running on my personal blog. I'll make a post on HN about it then.
In my experience, some older folks (over 40) seem to have this weird self-negating issue where they seem to lose confidence in themselves. I've known some truly badass programmers, stuck in shitty positions but don't move because of their own fear. So I think when you say "older folks find it harder to get hired", it becomes a self perpetuating kind of mindset.

The reality is that industry is dying to find people that can get shit done, as Cletus said. It doesn't fucking matter what you look like, your age, whether you have testicles or an ovary or neither like Data from STTNG.

My last gig was with a giant software company. BigCo management announced that my product would be canned in mid-Jan, effective March 31. Within 2 weeks of their announcement I had 4 opportunities (not counting internal opportunities) of which I chose the best one, starting in 10 days.

I'm not doing anything special, but life is good :-)
(On further examination, a few clicks on the Back button get me to a place where there's an image that links to a tarball of file_cmds!)
Are you confusing Robert Scoble with Michael Arrington? Scoble worked for Microsoft and now works for Rackspace.

Arrington worked for Techcrunch before parting ways with parent company AOL. Interestingly, he is more commonly the recipient of the type of scorn embodied in your post.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Scoble
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Arrington
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Snail mail, telephone, IM, e-mail, travel. Yes, there are many ways to keep in touch with your friends and family.

I don't know, it's possibly a generation thing but I remember spending most of the nineties InterRailing around Europe and making lots of friends without even using the Internet at all. Snail mail and actually meeting real people are slow processes but they are so much more meaningful than Facebook.

I have a Facebook account that I use only for testing apps I'm working on. I stay in touch with my friends with all of the above means. Needless to say, our conversations when we actually meet in real life are a hell of lot more interesting than if we followed each other's life in real time.
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I would imagine that drunk walking has less of a chance of killing others though. This doesn't even have to be by-standers. For example, with 4 drunk teenagers in a car, it just takes 1 drunk teen to kill 4. On the other hand, if you have 4 drunk walking teens, that kind of outcome is far less likely.
A fairly pointless blog post with very little content.
I get the point of the post. But come on, we're adults. Drinking is a choice. For some people, if having a drink makes them more social and they enjoy it, more power to them. If people choose to be sober and it works for them in their social life, hey, good for them too.

Yes alcohol can be abused. But just because you choose to get shitfaced doesn't mean you don't know how to have fun the "real" way. It also doesn't mean you're an alcoholic. And just because you don't drink, doesn't mean you're the outcast.

Your post would have been a lot more meaningful if you neglected the part about the alcohol altogether. I think what's inspiring is that you chose to go down a different path and it led to amazing things in your life. Drinking is irrelevant and takes away from the good message you try to convey.
The difference between drunk walking and drunk driving is that, while a drunk walker is a danger only to himself, a drunk driver is a threat to others.
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I couldn't get used to the taste of beer for something like two years since I started drinking alcohol. At first I hated it, now I just tolerate it. I still don't really like it, but I don't have problem with drinking it in social situations anymore.
Looks like he's bragging more than anything else, and the sad part in it, I really don't think he partied the way I did.
Yeah... This is the first time my site has ever crashed. Guess it got popular... Trying to figure out what to do next. If I just wait it out or restart the box...
I host my own mail server on a VPS. I made a clear cut from the big G about a year ago. I switched to duckduckgo.com as my main search engine, installed noscript, blocking all analytics requests, and set up my own mail server on Arch Linux using dovecot, postfix, and spam assassin. This setup has been wonderful and I feel proud to use it since I was once afraid of various issues which, in reality, have been minimal! I can access my mail from any computer or mobile device that allows SSH or has an IMAP mail client.

Once after a system upgrade mail was no longer being delivered to my inbox. I noticed after a day and thought it was strange. I forgot to reboot the mail server software after upgrading. Soon after my mail server rebooted I had many emails delivered from when my mail server was down. This excited and surprised me. I thought I would never get those emails but I assume the mail clients just held on to them and tried sending again intermittently.

Any self-respecting hacker should at least try to setup a mail server on a virtual machine. The hacker will find it interesting and useful. It really only takes a couple hours and it is fun! For those hackers who are brave enough, here is the guide that I used:

http://www.gelens.org/archlinux-mailserver/
Getting an error like this from CloudFlare seriously casts doubt on their ability to operate. One of the big things they claim is being a solution to exactly this problem.
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You also have to take into account that alcohol affects people differently. Some people just get tired, some people feel really good.

Also, some people have addictive personalities (in addition to alcoholism).
An infographic with eBay classifieds displayed prominently comes to the conclusion that it's cheaper to buy/sell on eBay than to move across country? Totally shocking

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> If we were late for dinner, we didn't eat. If we were late getting home at night, we didn't get to go out again.

those don't fit in with examples of being treated like an adult.
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Not working for me on Chrome on Mac. Keeps the HN url appended on top of my own url. When I manually edit, still doesn't work, just gives me the original form.
The way you describe freedom is the way some oppressive regimes start, an individual believes their way is the right way, others will benefit from their way, so their way is forced on people.

With freedom of the press, the press has the freedom to choose what they publish. You as an individual have the freedom to choose not to read what they publish. You don't have the freedom to restrict what or how they publish, that is their choice.

With software licenses the copyright holder has the freedom to pick a license and publish their work how they choose. With BSD-like licenses the receiver of the software also has the freedom to pick a license and re-publish the work as they choose. With the GPL the receiver of the software loses the freedom to choose what they do with it, the copyright holder is imposing their will and beliefs on someone else. With the BSD License people have choice, including the choice to impose their will, but that choice is theirs.

Instead of the press, I think it might be clearer if you think about it as drugs or alcohol. You as an individual have the freedom to choose to sit in your home and get drunk. That is your choice. You do not have the freedom to get in a fight while drunk, or get in a car and drive drunk. Because when you do those things you take away the freedom of choice of others, you impose your will, you take away their right not to get hit.

It's about freedom of choice. The choice of an individual lies with that individual, with freedom of choice you do not get to restrict the choice of others.
Yes, I know that Gmail has some keyboard shortcuts. I'm also aware that you can even customize them to some extent, but the flexibility has nothing to do with mutt's.

To give a concrete example, I am moderating some institution's mailing lists through a pretty exotic system, and I rely heavily on my mutt configuration to accept/reject mail and prepare rejection mail. In one keystroke, for instance, I prepare a reply to a certain MIME part of an incoming email notification and pipe it through a script to add boilerplate text and edit the message headers automatically. I wonder why so many hackers prefer Gmail's convenience to this sort of flexibility.

As for the mouse, like the keyboard, it is a tool which is appropriate for certain tasks and less appropriate for others. I think the keyboard is more appropriate to deal with email.
Furthermore, complaining about downvotes is a gamble. The odds are in favor of receiving more downvotes if you complain, though sometimes it works out the other way. However, the odds are especially biased for more downvotes if you make some sweeping statement (or "question") about the entire community as a reason for the downvotes.