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I am sure this is everyone's ideal job, but I do think that there are many people that simply just _don't want to work_. In the case of Valve (and software development), I think creative juices tend to flow more easier and creates a harmonious vibe that you don't always find with other professions.
> I can't say how much i hate the "social trend" in this era of the internet boom.

It angers me greatly. I attribute it to tech going mainstream in a big way. It waters down the entire industry. Worse, it feels like it has slowed down R&D because everyone's so complacent with what we have.
If Apple rarely abuses their power and makes it easy for literally everyone who isn't making malware to obtain developer ID certificates, including people who build BitTorrent clients and Tor proxies and iOS jailbreak apps, then I agree.

However, I see no reason to give Apple the benefit of the doubt here. They have been abusive since the moment they first had the idea of restricting what their users could run on their own hardware. Given that history, I'll assume abuse until proven otherwise.
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This is precisely why Google will remain a search company. It's not that they can't create tech for enterprise, it's that no one with a brain cell trusts them with anything important.

I know we don't.
Why does this bother anyone? They're trying to stop interference with the vast amount of wireless communication tools they have to use from refereeing to planning etc.
I agree with you, but why do people think this way? Because there are fathers who absolutely cannot function as a caregiver to their own children. I have friends who have trouble watching their kids for a few hours on a Saturday afternoon while their wives do other things. So, the stereotype exists for a reason--but I agree it is not pleasant to be judged by it.

Parenting isn't rocket science, but it's hard work that requires a bit of introspection if you wish raise your kids well. It's a shame that folks have kids but have no desire to shoulder the burden they've accepted.
> If this works on the level of a firm, would it work on the level of a whole society?

Well, while Valve employees work the the things they want and like, they have been carefully selected to want and like the same thing as Valve. "Society" doesn't have a very hard hiring process designed to only allow high-quality individuals in, at the expense of a high rate of false negatives, and if a society had the same access to "fire" it's members, even Iran would think it was a bit over the top.
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Most school systems are underfunded right now because our state governments are still recovering from the 2008 financial crash.
Capitalism doesn't require corporations. Corporations insulate capital from liability.

In the early 1800's in the US, you needed a act of the state legislature to form a corporation. This was difficult and came with other baggage (putting politicians on payroll, etc) so many more businesses were partnerships. Being a partner means that as you invest, you gain more equity AND more liability. It also means that governance becomes difficult as the partnership grows. As the industrial revolution brought about massive, more capital intensive businesses (railroads, steel, etc), the corporation become necessary to function.

If Hacker News was around in 1880, we'd be talking about corporate bureaucracy as a great innovation. It made sense.

I think what you're really seeing with Valve is a sort of modern partnership. I've seen similar sounding small businesses (farms, mostly) where running of the business is more consensus-driven or there is a "spontaneous" hierarchy that develops over time.
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There is sponsorship and then there is instituting a ban on selling chips and using personal wifi.

One does not need to follow from the other.

This level of exclusivity is not something that should even be on the table to purchase, as aspects of daily life such as the choice of food in London and the permission for people who live there to use their own legal devices for the purpose for which they were designed, is not the government's property to sell unless we regard ourselves as nothing better than serfs.
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Thanks. Also a great post.
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is it clear how this works? i can't work out what a memcache query would look like. is the key that SQL select statement as a string?
op also completely misses the point. we're even further from the 4 lines than we were ever before.

sure john could just use someones library. but in the terms john was speaking, javascript + library + browser stack etc. etc. is not 4 lines it's hundreds of thousands.

there was only one prof at university i enjoyed. he would stand in the cpu design class and mock the java world and how things get slower despite us having faster cpus.

ps. i earn my money with web work

pps. javascript is a horrible language. holding my breath for dart and anything else thats not javascript
we agree, it was I meant with "deploy asap", i.e. running in a same environment than the production one.
And there are mothers who absolutely cannot function as a caregiver to their own children.

I think the article is asking why mothers are assumed to be good parents and everyone assumes fathers are lucky if they can get pants on their kids in the morning.
> "The all that is expected of women is far more encompassing."

The article isn't about how much women do or how high expectations are for them. Truly the more-present parent, regardless of gender, has a more serious parenting load.

The article is about the social expectations for fathers.

To put it in more clear terms:

Society expects X from mothers.
Society expects Y from fathers.

The article is not about a comparison between X and Y in any way. It's not about whether X ~= Y. It's not about whether X > Y or whether X >> Y. It's not about whether any of those comparisons being true might be fair or accurate or desirable.

The article is about society's expectation that Y ~= 0 and acts surprised as all hell whenever Y > 0. And how that is bad, shameful and insulting.
Sorry for the delay in responding. Hearing can actually be related to depression. http://www.aitinstitute.org/ - the website / therapy is marketed towards children with autism as that is the largest group affected, and the most severely. There's an out-of-print book called "Hearing Equals Behaviour" by the researcher who 45+ years ago discovered a correlation between hearing and behaviour. People are 100% going to be depressed if they have a hearing imbalance at 1,000 Hz; Imbalance is if say in one ear the lowest you can hear is 11 Dbs, and the other ear you can hear at 14 Dbs - that shows an imbalance of 3 Dbs. The sound therapy I listed helps let the mind 'release' and equalize those imbalances. If you have an imbalance at 1,000 Hz then medication won't he, cognitive behaviour therapy won't help. I imagine it's possible to not be "locked into" a depressive state, but set into one temporarily with hearing-related issues early on - I'm unsure it would fruitful to investigate further.
I'd like to see if Valve's model scales to a much larger number of employees.
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The site seems to be down right now. Here's the google cache:

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When my older child (now 17) was little, people who knew he was my son would see us at the park and ask, "Oh, are you babysitting?"

I'd answer, "No, I'm parenting."
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I disagree. I don't see any difference between email 1 and email 2 except for email 2 has a bunch more filler words.

If I was to rewrite this it'd look something like this:

To: Allhands@CompanyX.com
From: JoeTheHRManager@CompanyX.com
Subject: New Work-From-Home Policy

Hi Everyone,

All of upper management have just put in their notice!
Bagels in the break room!

Joe

What I mean to suggest is this type of email should NEVER be sent out in the first place. Blanket "Policy Changes" like this that impact everyone is a complete failure of management. This puts at-risk every employee you have.

Whatever reason for making the policy change (person X is not following the rules) needs to be resolved otherwise discontent and resentment will build (You know why this happened probably because Frank works from home ALL THE TIME).
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Of course the money has to come from somewhere.

Articles like this one just highlight the actions that are taken in order to obtain the money, so the public (especially the public in cities considering an Olympic bid in the future) can evaluate whether it's worth the price.

I would encourage any city I live in not to bother with an Olympic bid - between the trademark police, increased security, decreased tourism, and little stuff like this, it hardly seems worth it. You may disagree. But it's good for us both to know about stuff like this, so we can make an informed decision.
I am not an Economist, but what you're discussing reminds me of John Lewis, a British department store & supermarket chain. It's owned by its employees, through a trust, and they all get a share of the profits as well as some say in the running of the company.
I completely agree a horizontal structure is a better working environment for employees. I don't know how the compensation packages at Valve works, but I'm betting the shareholders (and executives at the top who are given shares) are getting the vast majority of the profits, just like most corporations. I bet a lot of the most talented employees at Valve are vastly overproducing the amount they are paid, and could easily gain much more personal equity even after trading some for enough land and capital to start a company themselves. Not saying everyone should start a company, I haven't yet so I guess I'm being a bit hypocritical here.

Good reply. Like I said I figured I was being a bit naive in my post.
This is so full of bullshit I don't even know where to begin. Has this person never worked an actual job that sucks? Dude needs to watch some episodes of Dirty Jobs.
Would that I could have taken six weeks off. [1]

And I felt guilty as all hell when I did go back to work.

[1] There might be something there. If our social expectation shifted to allow that fathers ought to/might want to be involved with their children, we'd probably have to update our archaic views on paternity leave. As is, I burned through all my vacation and then some and then stretched my employers tolerance for 'working from home' as far as it would go before I returned. And in the end I still had to go back before my wife got the doctor's Ok to drive, or to lift anything heavier than our child.
"get the same answers from Google" - well, I signed up for a Quora account out of curiosity some time ago and started receiving their weekly emails, which generally I delete or unsubscribe from with most companies but something about Quora's community has kept me subscribed, for example answers to questions such as 'What wass it like to grow up insanely rich' and 'What is it like to lose an Olympic event'. I checked my account and the default is still No for "Allow others to see what content I've viewed in feed" but I'll certainly be considering deleting my account should this be activated without my consent.
I'm amused at two things in his advocacy of law.

(1) Things have gotten much worse for law schoool graduates in the last 5 years, and
(2) I actually ~do~ like the intellectual property lawyers I know. As a class, they tend to be bright people who understand the intersection of technology and business in a broad way. I just wouldn't want to be getting a lawsuit from one of them. ;-)
While an employer or client might, RoR doesn't force you to use CoffeeScript.
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One of the versions[1] of the 5.6 documentation[2] has a comment regarding that.

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[2] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-memcached-bene...
Where I live, the fried potato-variant in the image is the same thing as fries - we don't distinguish between our variants. We might go as far as calling them thick fries, but that's about it.
It's also amusing he thinks law doesn't change much. Grass is always greener.
Basically, because this type of maneuver is low and shitty and we can see it

most people won't even know it happened, new users will have to discover by themselves, a lot of people will not like but won't care enough to opt-out, most who really dislike will opt-out and the rest who are actively against it, that are opinionated and will try to shed a light on how unethical and unconsiderate this is and consequently put a bad face on them will be significantly cut down
Someone that is somehow renegade is Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. And it's quite possible that his thought is way better fitted here.

Of course, he's another non-authority thinker but with a quite different perspective and way to think the world, the society and men.

Take some of your time at gutenberg.org:
- What is Property? by P.-J. Proudhon http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/360
- System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by P.-J. Proudhon http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/444
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I wish normal everyday non-anonymous citizens would.
You could always install DOSBOX and GW-BASIC. Then you can play around with the PLAY statement (feed it a string of notes), the SOUND statement (feed it frequencies) and the DRAW/LINE/PRESET/COLOR/PALETTE statements (draw coloured shapes on the screen).
nice to see a few mentions of the real problem, which is not piracy, and criminalizing individuals, but the lack of legal affordable alternatives for consuming intellectual-property 'products'.

I don't know about tax as such, but can't see what's wrong with fees similar to ISP packages, or even the dreaded TV-license. With a fixed-fee (or perhaps a pro-rated fee based on income/social situation) you can get access to as much content as you'd like. As for the claim of that the link between creation and income is destroyed - I disagree. It should be quite easy to distribute the earnings fairly to artists based on usage patterns. In the days of analytics, click-counting, and measuring download bandwidth, it should be easy to see that one artist is much more popular than another, and hence deserves a bigger piece of the pie. It might not be 100% accurate, but I don't think the measurements now for sales and distribution are that accurate either.
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The asymmetry you point out is a difficult truth that definitely resonates with me, and I would guess many other fathers as well.
Who knows what restrictions are placed upon it, but the spendthrift example from the article, the University of Chicago, has a $6.5 billion endowment. Lots of bigger private and public universities have similarly large financial resources.

I haven't looked, but I doubt U of Chicago have that much debt. I would guess that they can mostly service their debt on income from the endowment.

To the extent that individuals and businesses are using college degrees as signals, it does seem reasonable to expect lots of attempts at cheaper alternatives.
His problem is he's comparing jobs in completely different categories

Law, Medicine, Business are high-status and high-competition jobs. Somewhere he got the delusion that computer programming is comparable in terms of social status and now he's sad that the rewards are inferior.

In the grand scheme, programming is pretty high status. There are many jobs that are lower status and only a handful that are higher status.
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to: privacy@quora.com

Subject: Delete my account

the e-mail for it is: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

thats the link: www.quora.com/xxxxxxxxxx

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He did. His method was to get his account deleted. Problem solved, protest lodged and feature "deactivated" in one go.

Here's hoping Quora becomes the next Digg.
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> Why not start at 8 or 9, or even earlier? Do they still think that young children wont get it?

My wife teaches kids around that age in a UK state school, and they teach some kind of combined science in the curriculum - there was a whole sequence on 'forces', which to me sounds like physics...

I was at a private primary school, and did a qualification at 13 called Common Entrance, which we prepared for from 9, which examined chemistry, biology, and physics separately (although we were taught chemistry and physics in the same classes).

So in answer to your question: I think (in the UK at least), they start combined sciences early
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Yes, we're moving further and further away from the metal, but that's not the point Carmack was making when he said that getting started and pushing pixels to the screen was easier on the Apple II than it is on Windows/Linux. He didn't mean the actual machine code that is executed, but the code you have to write/understand.
My advice to the author: Learn the fundamentals of computer science. Learn data structures and algorithms. Maybe he'll realize that there is a lot more to a career in computer programming than simply knowing the latest language hotness.
This is a pile of conjecture - devoid of any useful analysis or data-driven conclusions.

If you have the Karma to, please vote this rubbish off the front page.
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Great point. I've noticed this trend on other sites, as well. Usually you have an option of facebook/google plus-integrated account, and maybe an anonymous option. You've laid out the core problem with this binary view. In your case, for legitimate reasons, you don't want to advertise certain aspects of your health to search engines, but you still want to have standing with the community. I've had a similar dilemma with politically-oriented sites. I don't hide my political views in "real life" especially when asked, but I don't want to have them associated with me whenever someone google searches my name.
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Oh wow, this article is 5 years old. Heh. (I was tipped off by his $900 21" flatscreen.)

Kind of funny since the law field that he advocates has cratered in the meantime.
Four relatively small lists of hashes (2300 total) f, of which only two are actually australian sites.

If Australia is "in Crosshairs" based on this, what kind of target was on the USA when 6 million+ LinkedIn password hashes made a break for freedom?
Oddly enough, I find programming to move at a glacial pace. 10 years ago I thought it was a fast moving field, but I keep seeing the same ideas remixed over and over. If anything I think programmers should think like musicians at the beginning it seems like things are constantly changing. But, that's all superficial changes in style over time, after a while you focus on the ideas and it takes less time to keep up with trends because you have seen those ideas before.

PS: That and Google let's you leverage a lot of deep knowledge once you understand how to ask.
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Show me where I can buy an Intel graphics card. Please.

Near as I can tell, the only Intel display adapters are the ones integrated into laptop motherboards. You may be able to buy the occasional desktop motherboard with integrated Intel graphics, but good luck finding one that can support two DVI monitors or dual-link high-resolution displays or anything fancy like that.

However, the last I looked into this was a while back; perhaps the situation has improved?
Agreed. In my response, I tried to guess what the complaint could be and I addressed each possibility in turn. This made for a quite long response as I was addressing items that were likely not even a problem. In the end, the re-instatement notice was sent via email:

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application."

So, I still don't know what the problem was.
Your link doesn't say that the screenings aren't cost-effective. It says that if you are in a certain age group these are the recommended amount you should do <40: 2-3 years, 40-49: 2 years, 50-74:1 1 year, 75+: none.

Annual screenings were too aggressive, not ineffective.
Would it be fair to say that "costs of transactions" are in some part due to government bureacracy and taxing?

Some costs of transactions are due to the need to document compliance with government regulations. The existence of regulations with compliance burdens will tend to make firms bigger than they would otherwise be, but many and probably most transaction costs aren't due to government, and there would be many additional sorts of transactions costs if there weren't a government at all.

And could it be, that certain structures are less optimal (profitable) for the single "firm", but more optimal for the economy as awhole. Could there even be a distinction?

It probably could, depending on what you mean by "optimal". Its pretty well established[1] that in the absence of transaction costs you can get a Pareto efficient[2] outcome, but Pareto efficiency is probably not the same thing you would call optimal (though what you'd call optimal is almost certainly Pareto efficient).

I would tend to expect that, given that we live in a world with transaction costs, firms are not the ideal size. But its hard to say whether firms ought to be bigger in general or smaller. Countries with relatively efficient economies (Germany) tend to have larger firms than countries with less efficient economies (Italy) but its really hard to tease out in those cases which way causality is flowing. Most countries tend to have laws that favor small businesses, and those might end up more than making up for their proportionally higher regulatory burden.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorems_of_welfare...
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency
What the "I don't trust Zuck" means to conservative investors (senior programmers, parents, and other fossils) is that management counts, in fact to old fogies like Buffett it's a major league concern.

The same thing that holds true of a YC company is true of large corporations. To channel Lombardi, "management isn't everything, it's the only thing"
This guy should learn to program in C, and then find a job where software is a profit center and not a cost center, and his whole perspective will change.

My first two jobs out of college were in engineering, and I made the switch to software and have never looked back. Much better working conditions with much better pay.

I do spend a lot of time learning new technologies, but the time spent learning the old ones is not at all wasted, since the concepts are applicable and make learning the new stuff really easy.
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