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I agree with avoiding debt - it should be every young persons first priority. Go to college, work on the side, take a year off, work full time, go back etc IF you want an education. Yeah it sucks but its better than coming out and realizing you essentially are enslaved for the next X years of life.

I'm not sure how this makes sense, financially. You'll generally earn much more with a degree, so 4 years of college followed by 4 years of work will leave you with much more money than alternating years of college & work.

It's much more important to focus on increasing your income than decreasing your debt. Negotiating a salary increase once pretty much means an extra $X,000/year for the rest of your life, whereas growing your own food will save you $X00 and you have to do the work again each year. Do it if it satisfies you, but recognize you'll have a much higher (financial) RoI by focusing on earning more.
I have also interacted with this guy in the past. I remembered our interactions to be fairly pleasant, so I was really shocked to see some of this nastiness.

Made me want to figure out what kind of person would pull stuff like this.

Turns out he's a kind of serial entrepreneur[1]. And not that it matters, but he didn't build BetaPunch himself.

[1]: http://www.marylandbailbondsblog.com/2010/05/big-boyz-bail-b...
Open an office in a warzone and assign him there. He doesn't accept, fire.
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Eh? Go doesn't have any capability to include inline assembly,

> "There is no facility in the Go programming language to support in-line assembler language code, and there are no plans to do so" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2951028/is-it-possible-to...

Of course the C parts of Go's standard library have optimized assembly - using C's capability to do.

So Go is not easier in any way for dropping into assembly - in fact it's much harder, you can't do it in the language, at best you might be lucky if Go's library does some stuff like that for you.
What attack does bcrypting this CSRNG-generated number prevent?
Apophis has a mass of 27,000,000 tonnes.

10 tonnes is 1/2,700,000 the total mass of the asteroid.

This would be the equivalent of trying to reduce the impact of a 180 lb human by trying to reduce his mass by 0.001 oz (or 82 kg man by 0.03 grams for civilized humans).

Too small to matter.
If you read it you'd know his wife left him. After that, what relationships do you have left?
If he's willing to sleep with the damn owners wife, what else is he willing to do? Cheat? Steal? At best he's a poison to the culture.
That's just it. Human beings often say one thing and mean another. Users' willingness - even eagerness - to pay is the one true, OBJECTIVE measure of the value they place on your product.

When people value something, they WANT to exchange money. Why? Because they want to take possession of it.

Exchanging money for value on a deep, primal level satisfies this urge.

Not only that, often times people say they want a solution but it's not what they really want. And often times, people are clueless.

But when they exchange money for value, you have a clear indication of just that - what they value.
Consult your attorney, train a replacement, fire the guy. The breach of trust can never be repaired. How can this decision take more than ten seconds?
That is rule number 1 of business like "be nice" is rule number 1 of dating.

Many great personal brands and businesses are launched and made with antagonism. Steve Jobs, Donald Trump, Richard Branson, Larry Flynt, Steve Ballmer, Rush Limbaugh, George W Bush, ... the list goes on of characters who have used antagonism successfully for personal and corporate marketing, and to divide the world between strong followers and detractors instead of a sea of disinterest.

If you are right or interesting, there is nothing wrong with being a little antagonistic. Intelligently picking a fight can bring much needed attention.

That said, this is not a case of being right or interesting - only immature and asinine. They did successfully get a major influencer to write about them, and if the old adage about any press applies, then it was a success. This is not the way I would want to appear or conduct business, but it may actually be better than being ignored.
Here is a more interesting question:

You're the boss.

Your immediate report is the competent VP/Engineer.

His report, the company's best dev, is the one who committed the personal-life transgression against him.

The two will never work together well again. Now what?
The response would seem warranted if you had been a participating member of the PHP internals list for any significant length of time. Stas is pretty well known for jumping into threads and completely derailing, and shooting things down with BS like "PHP is not Java, stop trying to make it into Java". The response is a culmination of a long time of watching him respond in such a fashion.

Stuff like this: http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=135083835232016&...

Sometimes he contributes to discussions in a very positive manner. But too often he degrades the discussion into BS rhetoric and greatly demoralizes contributors (I know I am not the only one to voice disdain, I may just be the first publicly)...

I guess you can say I just had enough...
This post pushed me to try some of the new processing tools out there. I setup Amazon simple pay with an IPN handler in about 20min. I didn't have an idea for a site so it's just a novelty site :) http://valuedchange.com/ I chose amazon over stripe since the micropayment cost is less on amazon (5% + 5c vs 2.9%+30c )
Now when you google "betapunch", the blog post ranks high for the keyword. People might forget, but Google won't. They've made their life very difficult. It never pays to be a righteous *hole.
I didn't say inline. I said linked. It's pretty easy to add.
I find it very, very strange that his first stop wasn't an employment lawyer. He has an employee with a demonstrated willingness to lie about the most important of things, to cause massive distraction and disruption, and to do so with little regret. What else isn't he telling you?

If he really doesn't believe he can fire this guy, he has a succession planning problem that needs to be solved.
A great man once said:

> be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

The TCP Robustness Principle from Jon Postel applies nicely to a lot more than TCP.
To be completely blunt, if someone has to ask a question like this on stackexchange and he didn't fire the other guy immediately (or at least after consulting a lawyer to cross the Ts and dot the Is), I'm not entirely surprised that he isn't "doing it" for his wife.

This isn't meant to excuse her cheating in any way as I believe cheating is a cowardly and inexcusable way to get out of a relationship that isn't working, but c'mon.

For what it is worth, I'd advocate firing if the guy found out an employee was cheating on any other employee, so while it would be impossible to separate your feelings in his situation, I think it is the right action regardless of who got cheated on.

Talk about workplace poison and unethical behavior!
what happened to beat the crap out of him?
Promote the guy to sales, he's clearly a closer.
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You said "easier than C". How is linking to assembly code from Go any easier than linking to assembly code from C?
Ouch, from your third link: "Paul Nochumowitz used a racial slur during the confrontation and, at one point, asked if Stansbury, who is African-American, 'wanted a banana.'"
COBOL reads like plain English. The ALGOL-like family of languages not so much.
The codebase of Wordpress is an utterly terrible, offensive, kludgy, hacked-together mess of spaghetti code. The last time I looked at the internals it still lacked a coherent MVC structure. There are big, good things built with PHP, written the right way with solid software engineering principles, but Wordpress is not one of them.
In such a situation, I'd figure out what I'd do if (best developer) got hit by a bus, and proceed from there.
Integrity is assured if you are up front with people.

This is the concept of early customers as stakeholders.

You can be upfront with people by saying, "Hey, I've looked into your needs and painful problems and I really want to serve you. I want to build this solution. But it costs money. Here's an example (show mark up) of what I have in mind. If I get x number of people to buy now, I'll build it. You can even get lifetime access (or some substantially reduced price) for taken on the risk and believing in me".

I think all those people who discount this method of serving customers are letting their fear of rejection get hold of them.

It's okay!

Fear is a natural reaction of the lizard brain; there's nothing to be afraid of.

But those of us that have tried this method and have seen how willing people are to work with you to build a solution (if your "heart" is in the right place, i.e. to serve them), know it works.

Seth Godin has a talk about "shipping on time" and just getting it out there to let the market decide (that's totally worth seeing).

(From ForaTV's channel, "Overcoming The Lizard Brain" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqozprFZ_38 )
Clearly an organization that values people skills.
Challenge him to a duel.
I believe the "opposite," or at least the closest thing, would be asexual.
Option #1: Ask him (face to face) to talk with him privately, punch him as hard as you can right in the nose, then talk to an employment lawyer to make sure you're in the clear to dismiss him for a breach of professional trust.

Option #2: Most of #1, but (instead of an employment lawyer) demote him to the mail room so he'll resign (no severance or unemployment).

Also, never allow a single person, however trustworthy, to be so indispensable to your business that you can't thrive without them.
I believe there are some, but it's still unusual.
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Well if people can use these biases against the things they don't like - then the things they don't like aren't backed up with data, or they aren't reasoned correctly or they are argued fallaciously. Having a deep knowledge of cognitive biases, logical fallacies and the improper use of statistics destroys the vast majority of hypotheses that are stated on a daily basis.

This is not because we don't like these things. No, it's because most people are full of shit.

See if you can see all examples of biases, fallacious arguments and poor reasoning in my above rant!

I've used a fair few. But only because I know all of them. Knowledge allows me to see through people whilst making myself opaque to others. Yes this can be abused. However this is only true to the extent that most things are already bullshit - using these techniques can only change what bullshit people believe.

However these techniques don't effect what is true or not - they merely help find it.
Did your wife leave because you found out or did the employee sleep with ur wife after she left?
How is that more interesting?

You'd consider canning the _competent_ VP/Engineer, adding insult to injury?

C'mon.
The difference is that as soon as the token is used, even unsuccessfully, it is whacked from the database. Whether or not password reset is actually completed.
"I also feel like these articles always skirt the issue that education has a very strong correlation to earnings - even still today."

Unfortunately, only causation will pay back the $200K ;-)
Interesting. So the impending diarrhea I had during the last section of my PSAT cost me a potential free ride at USC (I scored a notch below what it took to be a top merit scholar).

Oh well ended up at a state school anyway.
Trust is more important than skill or domain knowledge or even cultural fit. Without trust, everything else is useless.
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>There's a lesson here. Somewhere.

"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from."
The create is nice, but the delete is absolutely essential. Thanks for implementing this.
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Why would a romantic affair have any correlation to stealing?
How so?

Are we only supposed to share positive experiences on our blogs and social media accounts?

User testing is a service I see myself using quite often over the next year. I'm always grateful for reviews or comments on the services that exist out there.
> Also, never allow a single person, however trustworthy, to be so indispensable to your business that you can't thrive without them.

So many times this!
Here's another interesting question:

What if everyone else finds out the the employee had an affair with the boss and the boss knew and the boss didn't fire him?

I'd honestly have trouble respecting the boss in that situation. This holds even if I were good friends with the guy who got fired. If one of my pals got caught having sex with his boss' wife and he got fired, I'd laugh because what the fuck man, why the would you ever even consider doing that? I wouldn't fault the boss at all, even if I otherwise thought he was a prick.
From evolutionary point of view, the employee has dominated him by taking over his wife from him. Therefore he will naturally feel inferior. The employee's dominance is reflected in his subtle arrogance with no sign of remorse. He should man up and fire him or he is just a pushover, Mr. Nice Guy (http://www.amazon.com/No-More-Mr-Nice-Guy/dp/0762415339).
No.

Being an asshole are the sites that allow unethical tracking and pass around user private info from one ad network to the next. Take your weak argument elsewhere.
I'm having a hard time keeping up with all these awesome classes.

Coursera's PL class is starting in a few days: https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang

Brown's Intro to PL class: http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/Videos/
>In all fairness, many people aren't going to want to watch, read, or associate themselves with Twilight after viewing this video.

Which is exactly the point. The purpose of copyright is not censorship. That's why parody and criticism are the core of fair use.

I think the fair use factor that talks about the effect on the market for the work is kind of confusing if you don't have the context of the associated court decisions: It refers to whether the allegedly infringing work competes with the original, not whether it makes everyone stop buying the original through effective criticism.
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#2 is more complicated than you think. It would be seen as a constructive dismissal, basically equivalent to a termination. Only a lawyer can properly advise if this is a good idea.

I'm going to type the words a few more times for emphasis: lawyer lawyer lawyer lawyer lawyer lawyer lawyer lawyer up.
Do you have a source for the story about the corn cob pipe? I'd love to see that scene, but can't seem to find any mention of it online.
I'm pretty sure that's not was what meant by GP. The story wasn't told so we would empathize with the shouting dad but so we'd be reminded of the son's situation.
Your point is correct in many scenarios.

If an engineering major who genuinely wants to be an engineer said should I take time off school to pay for the next year - Id likely point him/her to exactly what you just said. Very much agree

The big problem is that many people do the following... they say say Ill take on debt for undergrad and get paid pretty well so I can pay it off. Then they graduate, work for a couple years, pay a bit off and then say "you know what if I get that professional degree Ill be making even more". So they go back to school and add more debt and then they come out and are making more money. And then they do something similar like say "if I pull out a big mortgage and leverage myself in the housing market I can live well and increase my net worth faster". I know this is hyperbole but its a common path for many many people - essentially trying to use debt as a tool...

And then when they have a lot of debt and are making a lot of money... something "unforeseen" happens. The market falls apart, lose their job, they decide they hate their profession, they get divorced, housing market falls apart, get sick, etc - thats when all the accumulated debt can really run you over.

I agree that debt can be utilized to do good but it can turn on someone real quick if they keep the cycle going.
Paying sticker on a college education is like paying above sticker on a car. The college I went to was a private institution and had a sticker price of $35k my freshman year and over $40k my senior year. Room and board and textbooks were additional.

I took loans for everything not covered by scholarships or grants and I owe barely $20k.
You're right. Still I can compare doing web development using ruby on rails with doing it in php without a framework.

I've done both, rails was much more pleasurable. See? I just compared the overall experience of a language with that of a framework.
Pffft. Dave is hardly riding the "Go bandwagon". (I guess this comment doesn't mean much unless you know what Dave does in the community or read the ML or have had help from him in the past. It's not as if he just picked this up to be "in", though I don't want to speak out of turn for him.)
Sleep with his daughter? Wait for him to marry your ex and sleep with her again? Hire an outplacement company and place him inside a competitor you particularly dislike?

Seriously: why employ someone you can't trust?
I think he is showing a more obvious solution that removes his own emotional investment by reframing the situation.
If you are willing to have an affair with someone else's spouse, especially when that person has been a mentor and championed you by promoting you, you're probably pretty devoid of any loyalty or moral fiber. And then to refuse to leave? Yeah, you can assume that person is completely untrustworthy in any regard.

Note, I'm not referring to a single mistake in a moment of weakness but an ongoing affair.
Option #3: Have your lawyer beat him up.
He's a 28-year-old kid with a marketing degree, that's about it. I know a fair number of people in the Baltimore tech/startup scene and no one has ever heard of him before.
It's more interesting because in this example, you're the neutral party.
I couldn't agree. You have put yourself head and shoulders about the 90+% of people who either are to fearful to even try what you did.

Congrats....
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Hi - I'm said twitter user; guess I said it wrong! Really anyone with a Twitter account and/or blog is an "influencer". The point is being in a netwide pissing match with customers is (obviously?) a bad idea.
Well, this thread is a new low.
If I work for you, and you don't fire him, I quit. That we're even discussing this has me looking at the door. I'm not sure you can do anything to redeem not having already fired the guy.

If you won't stand up for yourself here, I don't know when you will. I certainly don't know when you would stand up for me.

Get a lawyer and do it right. But fire him.

ALSO: Maybe more important. Get yourself into therapy of some kind. Immediately. Get screened for depression and pyschological disorder.

That you are even asking this question suggests that your priorities and self-image have departed from normal ranges in unhealthy ways. Never mind the goddam business. You aren't even living your life. Something is seriously haywire. If you don't go to work on it you are going to end up a very sad and strange story.
not sure why someone downvoted you.
This article, like many articles on Hacker News equates the value of education into dollars. Education, intrinsically, cannot be solely measured in dollars. The problem isn't people getting useless degrees, its degrees that don't correspond to high paying jobs in the current economy costing too much. THERE IS NO SHAME IN GETTING A DEGREE IN LITERATURE. Education should be free.

I just get a knee jerk reaction to any article like this because it wholly overlooks how education is supposed to make you a better human being, not a money making machine.

Articles like this take the easy way and basically say ASSIMILATE or die. Yea, thats going to solve the problem...
10 years is an interesting test. Moore's Law predicts density increase of 100-fold (2^(10/1.5)= 101.6). Cost and processing power usually follow. 100x faster phones overshoots most demand for desktops, so not only would desktops be replaced, we'd likely have an even-smaller form-factor than phones. That's one decade.

What to invest in, that will still be relevant in decades? People and problem-solving. Maybe unix and web...
World population may actually start declining, not exploding.
As an added data point, I am sort of plugged in to the Baltimore tech scene, and I have never heard of him, but as I said, I'm only sort of plugged in.
A more accurate digital format reveals more flaws or approximations in art and so requires more refined art.
I am going to play devils advocate here, as I loved the book, "Trust Me, Im Lying", and a lot of what is written in there pertains to this "drama". The person controlling that twitter account is probably a little too emotionally invested, and probably a little immature. I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing, its passion, just misdirected (not everyone is passionate about their product, no matter what gets said on these types of forums). I would be curious about the internet habits of people who do not want their tests shared (a TOS/Disclaimer should have been listed on the site), but I would guess between gmail/facebook etc, betapunch is the least of their worries. I just assumed that a tech-savvy audience assumes that anything they put online is fair game...because...well, it is. On the other hand, its better to be emotionally invested in something you have built, but never reveal those emotions I would think.

tldr; if you can raise ANY doubt about who is in the right, and who is in the wrong, and get a shit load of hits, controversy may not be such a bad thing.
> I was surprised though that the movie in 48HFR looked so different. (The 3D did not have an effect.)

Strange, but I saw it in 2D 24fps then in 3D at 24fps, and the 3D made a huge difference to me. Asok and the Goblin King looked fake and didn't work for me in 2D. An animator friend of mine tells me that most of the emotion portrayed in animation is through body language, so maybe this was optimized by the artists to work in 3D, but not quite perfect when translated to 2D.
have you ever even tried Symfony? i think a lot of the debate is about how people are starting to get fed up with the Java/c#-like direction PHP is heading. symfony is not like rails, no where close to it. not sure exactly where they started taking the wrong turn but it's really going the opposite direction from other languages like node/python/ruby where simplicity is at it's core.
"Tt's ridiculous to think that an employer would hire you and put you to work with no training."

What changed from the past is that now businesses are focused more on the short term. They want someone who is plug and play right out of school. When the managers themselves might hop job in the next year, there is no incentive to do anything but what helps them right away.

The way to show you can do the job is to show you have done something similar. For software it is some side project or open source contrib. I'm not sure for your case, but you need something you can talk about.
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