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Why do you want to own a house? Is it as an impediment to relocating? For the risk of a highly leveraged investment? Or so that you can spend time and money fixing leaking pipes on Tuesday evening and patching the gypsum board on Saturday?

Ever notice how most small businesses deal with real-estate? Hint: they don't negotiate a thirty year lock-in.
"I don't think anyone with actual first-hand knowledge of the CL ecosystem would make this comment"

I'll make that statement, but only in a somewhat pedantic sense about the language standard itself. Yes, I know CLTL2 is over a thousand pages long, but the one thing about programming languages that always bothers me is undefined behavior. Sadly, even Common Lisp has undefined behavior; Paul Graham's book On Lisp actually relies on undefined behavior being implemented in a particular way e.g. using setq on an unbound variable.

Good documentation should not leave anything undefined; good documentation should leave no questions about the semantics of a system/API/language. Given source code and documentation, it should be possible (perhaps difficult, but possible) for a person to figure out what will happen if the program is run.
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It takes two to tango, they both made really bad choices. Even the OP is probably a little at fault for trusting either of them in major areas of his life. And, who said the wife even took a vow to be faithful? I'm married, 'faithful' wasn't anywhere in the vows.
I don't care for the theme, but then I learn he's targeting women on location - I figured this was a home use only machine.

The big issue with pins on location is the maintenance - the number of people left who can genuinely maintain pinball machines is pretty tiny. I wonder if they've done anything to improve the maintainability, like reducing the amount of dirt buildup. The LED lighting will certainly help!
If you haven't tried it, I'd also checkout the rather creatively titled "Pinball Arcade" - ios, android, xbox, PS3, etc. They got the licenses for a bunch of old tables, and are adding one or two a month. Very good physics engine, and they're emulating the hardware so the gameplay is very accurate.

It's been a fun way to waste time.
> It's patently ridiculous for a person to spend half their life not working

Why is this ridiculous?

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the
rich. In England, in the early nineteenth century, fifteen hours was the
ordinary day's work for a man; children sometimes did as much, and very
commonly did twelve hours a day. When meddlesome busybodies suggested that
perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from
drink and children from mischief.

-- http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html

Genuinely curious - I'm no economist, and don't understand whether Russell's argument is full of holes, outdated, both, or if rather his proposed reallocation and reduction (through technology) of work is something we should be aspire to.
Great advice, you're right that there's a chance that he could lose the entire company over this.

There's a chance he can't fire him, in which case he should probably contain him in a room doing menial tasks and receiving written warnings whenever they aren't satisfactory (3 warnings = can be fired where I live).

Either way dealing with it head on is the only way to keep everyone's respect.

If he takes everyone's advice and deals with it, but also has the benefit of patience and wisdom to ask before acting (not sure I could), that's probably the most respect deserving course of all.
I agree - I worked on the other side of the fence doing some back-end dev for Ross and would happily do it again.

Hopefully this all blows over and his fingers get burnt and everyone can get on with it.
Seems a bit more sexist to assume that if she was the "seducee", that she was somehow helpless to prevent herself from sleeping with the guy.

The known quantity is that she was married to the OP. It's her responsibility to not sleep with someone else or terminate the marriage if she decides that she wants to
1) The first thing I noticed is the 0/$9/$19 scheme. I would make it 0/$10/$25, it's more to the point and I think the rounded numbers would be better received.

2) I think you could make a lot more money. Large web development agencies could use this site to get quick feedback on new site designs. Not sure about your entire strategy but I'm thinking that you could "rank" reviewers. A reviewer who reaches a certain threshold is considered an "expert" or something. Then, offer those better reviewers to these development/design agencies for $99/month (or more).

3) Similar to point 2, maybe you could have a verification process for professional designers/website builders (prove they are good at what they do). They would (most likely) provide the most technical and potentially useful feedback. I think agencies would like to have these people give critical feedback which could be worth a lot... Like $300 / month. You could also provide incentive to professional reviewers with compensation ($1 / accepted review or something).

4) I would limit the # of reviews per site based on the plan.
Free = 5 reviews
Pro = 20 reviews
Gold = 100 reviews
Unlimited = Unlimited reviews
Not sure how many reviews are normally submitted per site, but you get the idea.

These are just some quick ideas. Like the site/idea, g'job.

source: Work for a web development agency.
If your co-worker sleeps with your wife, can you ask your boss to fire him?

Just because he's a manager and makes hiring decisions based on technical abilities doesn't give him the power to exact revenge for personal problems.
I agree wholeheartedly about the shortcomings of the DMCA, and am not sure what sort of equitable mechanism could make those problems go away.
Switched PHP for JS. Never looked back.

Seriously, It needs to die.
Oh the irony: I went to the homepage of betapunch.com, where they proudly promote their "raw unbiased user" testing, and some text on their home page renders incorrectly. Even more ironically, the problematic rendering includes this text: "Receive feedback and discover problems."

Even if the "all publicity is good publicity" concept applies here, they are wasting that publicity, at least on me, with their site problems.
Work keeps your brain sharp. I've met 80+ year old judges that can keep young lawyers on their toes peppering them with questions to test their arguments.
Or facebook.

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2356432130
>"Bill Gates was born rich, had rich friends."

Microsoft not only bootstrapped, it's been eating it's own dogfood for more than two decades.

An incubator like YC can't produce a Microsoft because they require the founders to give up equity.
TIL about beermoney
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If you were a geek hanging out in arcades in the 1980's, you will probably enjoy this. High Speed, Pinbot...

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Looks to me like Verisign isn't a fan of the scheme because it would take a few hours to propagate routing changes.

That makes it harder to run its DDoS prevention business. Not sure that's a good reason to oppose better routing security.
the comment you are raging about is disbelief someone can wait months without any serious reaction while the guy who already stabbed him in the back laughs at his face by not leaving voluntarily, and made his life miserable to the point he asks anonymously on the internet if he should maybe fire him. it's not a call for conspiracy into hiring thugs to beat him in the alley.

now it's too late, shit already hit the fan, personal problems got to the office, he got to get rid of him to regain authority, there is nothing 'mature' about doing nothing when he's clearly in trouble.
I agree, but we need to control for recessionary effects, no?
At Stanford, it's a policy that if your family makes less than $100,000/yr, they waive tuition. At Harvard and some other Ivies, they do it at $60,000/yr.
But watch out for the Ballmer peak!

I had one particularly bad period of crunch time where I was trying to code a 3-month project in 4 weeks, all while learning a new language/framework.

One night, after several hours of being stuck I got sick of it and poured myself a rather large amount of bourbon. Now, I was rather naive when it came to alcohol. I thought the bourbon was 47 proof...turns out it was 47 percent.

All I know is that the next day, building maintenance reported hearing singing all through the night, two weeks of snacks were gone, and I woke up in the office at 7 AM, and I found some of the most beautiful and well-written code I'd ever seen, accomplishing about 3 weeks of work in one weird night.
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Indeed. Today's kids may or may not be screwed, but I don't think CR's chart implies what the article's author infers from it.

Starting the article off with post-apocalyptic imagery seems to be the wrong tone to make any constructive statement.
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While I think he's made some important observations and I agree with some of his advice, I don't agree with his conclusion that young people are screwed.

Here's an important insight that I definitely agree with:

"But won’t a college degree pay for itself? It probably won’t."

It won't. You probably shouldn't get one if your goal is to make money.

Here's some advice I disagree with:

"My advice to young people is to figure out how to make something. That means either working with your hands, or learning how to type code with them."

The job market is a game of musical chairs. You can give a person a strategy for winning at musical chairs, but it doesn't change the fact that there are fewer and fewer chairs each round.

It's not reasonable to tell young people (or any people) that their goal should be to find a job so they can be self-sufficient and they can support themselves financially.
Sure, but we still get to judge that the guy is also a piece of shit.
That's a non sequitur. Why should the ISP have to "support" it in the first place?
Really cool to see how you guys are doing and what your costs are. The services/hardware are becoming exorbitantly cheap and manpower/expertise is becoming expensive.
I think one should be more careful posting such stuff 'anonymously'. It looks like there is enough bits of information here, to identify the original poster. Owner of the company with 30-40 employees; technology company; oldest employee in the company was recruited straight from the university; divorced; likely UK; likely has another account on stack-exchange; writing style.
You just did it again. Why would you compare Ruby on Rails with PHP?

Do you realize what you're saying?

edit: replied to you as if you were fleitz. Point stands as you basically parroted what he said.
SpiderOak (https://spideroak.com) is a zero-knowledge focused and secure backup service that you may want to take a look at.
Thanks for the tip to lock down Twitter, I hadn't thought of that.
Australia was colonized quite a long while after the US was, and still only has 22m inhabitants. It'd be surprising to me if it weren't a few decades behind the US for another 10-20 years.
I don't think that follows from what he said.
I agree with your real point, however, I would not say the current model is the traditional or even universal model. Countries other than the US have much better models. I just get tired of the discussion not focusing on the problem and instead accepting it. Universities are often the best place to get an awesome education in the humanities. Withholding that opportunity because education has been transformed into some financial investment, instead of a holistic investments that not everyone can take is just plain sad.

I think its also important to point out that the skills and concepts you learn in areas such as the social sciences and humanities are still financially lucrative. As long as our economy is dominated by big corporations there will be managers and CEOs whos only job is to delegate tasks to and organize the humans beneath them. Understanding human power structures and having the ability to persuade and communicate effectively with people will always be the real big money ticket.
Can't ignore him, he's got a vote in PHP internal.
To the joker who searched for "(dasdsa#@!#@!K#...KJ#!@LKJ#@!LKJ+,.3,21/321" thanks for the debugging help :)
SOPA should be a wake up call in an additional way.

> Government's main role in technology should be to stop incumbent companies who try to "hotwire" the system, said Wyden. "Not infrequently, they seek out special help from the government—while claiming they want a marketplace that doesn't favor government intervention."

Incumbent companies are hotwiring the system all the time, at the federal, state, and local levels. We stopped SOPA because it was brought to our collective attention and we cared enough to take action. The thing is, SOPA was just business as usual for companies -- they had done the same in many different ways before, so our reaction surprised them. We should take notice that this is happening all the time and we're just not paying enough attention.
I get the tautology that if you can't be trusted then you can't be trusted, but I still don't see any reason to believe this would extend to something like theft.
- Thanks brudgers for the insight. I never YC required its founders to give up equity. I also like the idiom "eating own dogfood".
Adultery isn't punishable legally in some places...really?
This is the first time I heard this. I'm talking about married couple, adultery here. Wasn't marriage a "legal contract"? In this case does it mean that if the couple were to be divorced, the guy still need to pay alimony et cetera?
If it makes them look good, and doesn't hurt, by what measurement is it not the right size anyway?
I can't tell if you're trolling or simply ignorant about what the language actually currently is.

PHP4 => PHP5 was a huge change, even more so if you compare PHP3 with PHP5.
Er, "no significant savings, income, or other resources to draw upon."

The "system" generally tries to support poor people, but there are an awful lot of rules in place to try and make sure people pay their "fair share" and prevent cheating. I think usually those rules have more or less the desired effect, but like any rules, they can be rather blunt instruments, and end up hurting people as well.

Some examples:

+ Foreign students are often ineligible for grants and aid (even those from the university itself), no matter how poor they and their parents are. [There are exceptions, e.g. Harvard (which has lots of money and extremely high admission standards), but my experience is that they are very rare.]

+ In many cases a parent's income is considered in calculating the student's resources, even if the student has no contact with or leverage over the parent and that parent is not willing to pay anything. The reason for such rules is obvious: to avoid parents pretending to be estranged in order to avoid paying their fair share. However it still can end up hurting students who really don't have any choice in the matter...
nothing can go on forever. that doesn't make the sample size any larger
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> ... I'm finding it incredibly difficult to even get an interview.

This is where the networking comes in to play. It's easy to get an interview after someone introduces you.

> After graduating from a top 25 undergraduate business program in 2 years and then going on to earn my MA in econ in another 2 ... I thought it might be easier than normal to get a job. Ideally I'd like to be at an audacious startup...

How do you expect that business and economics degrees will help you join a startup? Most seem to want to hire people to build stuff. Perhaps you'd be better-equipped for starting one yourself.

> ... all the while playing Division 1 football ... and even rode my bike 215 miles to a midwest tech event ...

We get it, you're athletic. It's not really relevant.

> it's my opinion that energy prices are a better indicator of economic growth than interest rates

Why?
Actually, with Stripe and Amazon they will just hold on to the information and not authorize/charge so you can wait much longer (like Kickstarter). The downside is that you aren't guaranteed to be able to charge the amount at the end, but I don't think that's likely to account for the majority of your customers.
So here is a question that would be left to an employment lawyer but I'm going to through it out in response to what you have said: Assuming this is in the US, would the employee's actions fall under the familial status protected class? If so, it would be illegal to fire the employee.
Fire him. The end.
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Using BCrypt for them provides a layer of protection against brute force attacks, no?
I would suggest patience insofar as he can collect his thoughts to focus enough on the sitatuion at hand without getting bitter, and execute a plan with cold ruthlessness.

Whether he likes it or not, his employee is now an adversary, and his wife is only the beginning. It's like the old lion being ejected from the pride because his time has come. He's taken his wife, why not take his company? Just like a serial killer, he's only going to escalate.
Idiots who don't plan their future are screwed, everyone else is perfectly fine. This isn't a change from the past, it's just that today's idiots are visible due to the internet.
Oh please, leave the jurisdiction? With his 30-40 employees? I'm sure he's gonna get right on that.

The guy is fireable in any country.
Nicholas Carr wrote a book on this, right?
Doubtful. In the very late 80s early 90s the whole SF Bay area (SF, SJ OAK) was in a severe housing depression. Realtors* were moving out of state because of the stagnation. It's kind of incredible to think that housing was, then, actually, affordable. Doubtful of the return to that due to the new economics and land usage. Unless something drastic in zoning and mass transit were to happen, it's not.

*At least two that I had heard of via my brother.
This is about as legitimate as claiming that forming a human chain and preventing people from going into a place of business is a form of free speech.
It's not reasonable to tell young people (or any people) that their goal should be to find a job so they can be self-sufficient and they can support themselves financially.

Are you kidding? How am I supposed to parse this properly? It reads like you are suggesting that it is not reasonable to suggest that you should get a job to keep yourself secure.
You're neglecting the wife in this armchair psychology. There's a much mor complex power dynamic going on entirely.
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http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2012/04/half_of_... quotes a number of stats on this.

Over half of recent college grads are underemployed or unemployed. This figure used to be lower in the past. But the shift is smaller than I was honestly expecting, and largely can be attributed to the economy.
Actually, in any at-will employment state in the U.S., he certainly does have the power, just because he's a manager. I'd go so far as to say that in all the U.S., he has a right to fire the guy; he just might have to give him severance because 'fucking my wife' isn't 'for cause'.

And on a practical level, no one could reasonably expect him to continue working with, let alone managing someone who'd done this, in this small a company.
...as long as you don't run into any health issues that affect your cognitive capacity, and you are able to maintain a position that matches your -likely declining- abilities.

I would like to think that I can look forward to retirement - travel, family, personal projects, etc. - without having to also continually worry over my status at work. But I'm not terribly optimistic.
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> The guy is fireable in any country.

Not at all. As aforementioned, you can't legally fire him in the UK (or Australia). Doing so would immediately welcome a legal battle with Fair Work (in Australia) and your chances of winning that one are slim to none.
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I'll balance your anecdote with my own: I too know several who are living at home that have degrees.

Yes, we'll always need STEM people, but I think you're forgetting that STEM is a pretty narrow part of what colleges do. Heck, I've got a buddy who has his degree in Theater. Theater! Why that is a degree option at a university, I have no idea. Not to mention art, comm (which every other person seems to major in), History, English, etc.. These are a little more representative of the "basement" ex-college goers.

For non-technical people, I kind of feel like college is a pretty poor investment. Going to a vocational school would probably pay off more in the end.
Maybe I'm naive, but everywhere I've been employed, it's been an "at-will" employment where either party has the right to terminate the employment contract without notice (discriminatory termination notwithstanding).
I'm glad I don't live on that planet and that none of my girlfriends' boyfriends have a problem with me.

The algorithm here isn't complicated. Ask yourself whether you're someone who can be happily monogamous. If the answer is "no", own up to it, date poly people and have awesome dinners with your new extended family. If the answer is "yes", you have the option of dating somebody who needs your fidelity and offers you theirs in return, and the two of you can live happily ever. And then there are all the other options - but regardless, try to figure it out and be honest with yourself before you get married.
"I’d be happy if 37signals is the last place I work. In an industry so focused on the booms and busts, I find myself a kindred spirit with the firms of old."

This guy is soooooo full of himself, it's pretty nauseating. He acts like creating basecamp has somehow solved world hunger... I'm amazed nobody calls him out on it more often.
What about San Jose? They have lots of land and or low density tracts which they could rezone for high density -and the city is amenable to actual renewal and progress, unlike SF.

I know it has a reputation for bland mega-suburb feel (as though it were just a bunch of adjoined and conglomerated suburbs called a city) but it could change. Geology* could be an issue, if going over, say, 20 floors, but anything above 8 to 10 is good for density and could be made a viable alternative to SF hegemony in the region.

As a bonus, SJ, compared to SF has a functional gov't and has lower crime.

*http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/2199 [PDF]
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You're implying some pretty serious things here, and entirely it's entirely unwarranted. This kind of armchair analysis is really disturbing to read, it's the same with anything legal, when all it becomes amateur hour at the law.

Getting screened for depression and psychological disorders is just rude and callous. You've not factored into your analyss the wife's role in all this or what might have motivated her to have an affair with this employee. All factors which you've completely neglected to consider...

It's even more sad that this is the top comment. All these chest banging alpha make wanna bees