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A summer job as code janitor at FORTH, Inc., age 16, $5/hour (80s dollars). While this was after Chuck Moore had left, it was still kind of educational.
In my senior year in high school I earned $20 an evening twice a week helping someone I met in a COBOL course write DEC BASIC programs to compute ACRS depreciation schedules.
Oh my god, that was my job before I realized that big companies like Yahoo actually pay good money for people who know javascript and CSS.

Being "The Web Guy" sucks a lot.
Guess I'm even more glad that I dropped out of high school, started hacking, played in bands, lived/worked in europe for a few years, came back to the states and now work full time from home for clients and my own start up. Maybe I hit my quarter life crisis in 9th grade but I realized what my culture offered me after school was over appealed about as much sitting in school waiting for it to be over.... Maybe all the stereotypical hardcore/straight edge lyrics about "taking control" of your life actually hit home for me - but regardless I actually love my life at 27 - know where I've been, know where I'm going and only regret that it is passing so quickly.
My wife had a liver transplant (years before I met her) and I've learned from her and her doctors that pretty much all liver transplant patients have a rough first year or two. Expect to see Steve Jobs hospitalized a few times over the next couple of years, suffering from rejection, hepatitis, CMV, and various side-effects caused by the heavy immunosuppressants he's taking. Eventually he'll find a balance of drugs that he can live with, but it's a long, painstaking, trial-and-error process.
Homeschooling, competitive athletics, community engagement, apprenticeships, mentors, freelancing, boostrapping, public libraries. And maybe a Ph.D. someday just for fun.
If you're gonna get a costco membership, you might as well grab a $1.50 hot dog once in a while ... maybe as a reward for hitting a milestone
My real first paid job with contract and stuff was as a cashier for a grocery chain. That was in 1995 (I was 17) and I financed with this job my first trip to an island in Northern Germany. Then my first real independent thing with license and stuff was selling soft drinks at the Berlin Love Parade in 1996. I made on this one day four times what I got for working as a teller. That was convincing enough...
I'm a college graduate, so I'm amenable to arguments against the original post's thesis. But "depends on the field" is a logical flaw, because it's assuming that the distribution of results for college graduates is more positive than is represented by the average, while not accounting for the same possibility for non-college graduates.

Also there's a pretty good ladder for some trades, which generally involve something that should be welcome here. Namely starting your own business. Over the course of my career I've met plumbers, cabinet-makers, steel workers, etc, etc. who took the higher pay they made right out of high school (or more often, two year trade school programs) and turned it into their own business. And have earned more than I have, with zero debt, at every step of their career.

ADDITIONAL RANDOM EDIT: Bill Gates...
Yes, there are many constructions for computing over private data that use homomorphic encryption. For example, Paillier's cryptosystem, which supports addition of ciphertexts, has been a building block in many voting protocols.

You can also do things like with homomorphic encryption like private set intersections -- meaning that two people could see what's in the intersection of their private sets without revealing anything outside the intersection.

Gentry's work is still a long way away from being practical, but is an exciting theoretical result nonetheless.
Heh.

Well.

I realize that I am going to immediately accrue a massively un-hackerly stigma by posting this, but what the heck, it's true:

I'm a missionary for a small and fairly unpopular religion.

The what to do part is the most personal part of escaping, and the part that determines if it'll be an episode or a part of your life going forward. So it shouldn't be surprising if there's very little transference between people. ;)

I guess I'd say the goal most people would like to set, regardless of how they will personally get there, is to dedicate themselves to improving lives. Yes? (We can even avoid Ayn Rand trolls by saying "lives", not "the lives of others")

How you'll go about doing it would be your thing. It's important that you be pretty darn convinced of the importance of doing whatever you escape to do.

I guess there are plenty of other reasons to escape. Ramen profitable, meet Plantain Profitable. I spent $7 for food this week, and I ate like a king (tilapia, fresh veggies, etc).

A startup that was really committed to being a cockroach could survive down here with an angel invester that worked at a meat packing plant.
a little BBQ and W sauce (Worchestershire). And a crock pot.
It seems to me that there are two audiences for the quarterlife crisis, and they're largely determined by selection of college major.

If you majored in something in Arts & Sciences which doesn't have a career attached, and then went to grad school in it (maybe a PhD) before figuring out that you have no marketable skills, you are now in your mid-to-late twenties, have a mountain of debt, and have no particular employment prospects.

If you majored something which a profession attached (engineering, foreign language with an eye towards actually using it to do more than order una cerveza por favor, etc), then you probably were employable in your early twenties and almost immediately a member of the middle class, without a crushing debt load.

I wouldn't exactly be the poster-child for "with it" in my father's generation but I came out of college with $20k in debt at the age of 22 with a job offer which paid very modestly, but better than working at a railroad or cereal company, both things my father had done at 22. Those aren't exactly ennui-inducing circumstances.
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> When will governments realize that people (not guns) kill people.

I hate to be suckered into this sort of useless debate, but you should at least bit a little honest here. Guns don't kill people, people _with guns_ kill people...
So there's only one class at the entire school, called "Google 101"?
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So what do you suggest? "Ban 'em all - let God sort 'em out!"...or what?
Try his movie "Zelig" if you want a meditation on fitting in. :)
I thought that the C# list was pretty good. There's lots of little tips in there that you might not pick up without experience (so it's a good read for those learning the language).
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What makes decision right
After noticing several two vehicle accidents governments bought up a new rule "Helmet wearing is compulsory for two vehicle drivers". But reasons such as hot tropical climate/weather in asia leads to excessive perspiration from the scalp, difficult to breathe from the full-faced helmets and also result in the loss of hair. so many people have started to buy four wheelers which in turn causing a lot of pollution and indirectly leading to deaths of many lives. I don't know exactly how many lives are saving by wearing a helmet but I am sure many lives are in danger with increase in pollution. So what makes decision right?
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I had two:

I helped my mom load and unload furniture. She owned an antiques, used furniture and collectibles shop, and I would go to garage sales and flea markets on the weekend with her to help with the big stuff.

Consequently, I had the opportunity to buy a lot of old computer junk for cheap at said garage sales and flea markets. I bought and rebuilt Commodore 64, Apple IIe, TI 99/4a, etc. machines for resale at $40-$100 (depending on disk drives, printer, etc.). One time I found an Apple Lisa, with original receipts and in perfectly working order for about 25 bucks. I was stunned that the 10MB hard disk had cost something like $5495, and the 5MB one $3495. The Lisa itself was, I think, $9995.
Ask HN: how productive and resource are you?
I just wanted to ask HN the ways you manage your time and get work done. Work you do, such as programming projects, your startup and etc. Personally, I have been very unsatisfied with my productivity lately because I have set myself high goals and am struggling to complete them. Right now I am feeling a little discourage and need some advice from you guys. It would be great if you could share your stories on resourcefulness.
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Well as a user, I would prefer a try-before-you-buy, as was common with Palm apps, which routinely offered 7 day trials and so on.

While I agree the article's style comes across as whiny (not to mention dishonest), I am really quite cross that the Apple store didn't support fixed time free trials as part of its original infrastructure.

$10 is not a lot for a good app, but for a lot of people it is a lot of money to just throw away for an app they don't want to use after trying it.
I think it will take time. I'm honestly not familiar with Silverlight and JavaFX, but matching AS3's capabilities(OOP, drawing API, Loader classes, filters, tweening engines, particle systems, 3D) and the flash 9 browser plugin's penetration isn't trivial.
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I see a couple of problems here: 1) I don't see the word "Twitter" mentioned anywhere in your marketing copy, 2) there doesn't seem to be an option for adding cute little PacsDrive characters to my Facebook wall, 3) bad idea to charge money for this -- you should be giving everything away for free, 4) I don't see a jobs page advertising open reqs for ninjas and/or rockstars.
I thought of IceBreaker as well, before scrolled down the comments. Not that I'm trying to steal your stake. Point to you.

It's catchy. I think it also catches a bit of the flavor of the implied bar scene: Ice in the drinks. And breaking through the ice of resistance/rejection.

Probably all sorts of graphic design possibilities, too, in the hands of a good designer.

Maybe you could call those last ditch, pull out all stops lines "SOS" -- Save Our Ship.

Not that I'm much of a bar person. I'd need the version with the built in taser. Place the phone in my hip pocket, and it jolts me forward until I actually am face to face with the party of interest.
My first was 4:30am, dragging a giant basket down rows of sweetcorn, hand-picking at age 10. Got paid with a bag of sweetcorn and what I was told was "character".

Ahh, the innocence of being a stereotypical Iowan. In hindsight, the character built was worth every bead of sweat.
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Dealing with Asperger's Syndrome, with the help of his wife.
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Since people are still getting paid, according to my reading of the article, it's almost European. By that I mean that many companies in France and Spain generally shut down in July or August all at once. There's probably is an overall benefit to just about everyone (not just the company, but the country) taking their vacation at the same time.
You're unnecessarily limiting your marketshare. (Or are you? Do women use pickup lines (on guys)?) ;-)
I upmodded, but I wanted to say that that gave me quite a good laugh. :-)
Why AIR - the desktop runtime?

Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX are the right competing technologies.
You are partially right, but gainful employment isn't the end-all, be-all. I finished engineering without debt and with plenty of excellent experience, and had no problem finding a great job at a great company. Yet, I can sympathize with much of what the article talks about and see plenty of it in my peers, including those who graduated from engineering with me.

I happened to choose an interesting and well-paying career when I was 17 or so. I certainly don't think it was a choice I made because I was wise, but mostly because of luck and happenance. Most others, I think, did not get so lucky, and now they have to deal not only with that, but with economic policies firmly aligned against them.

The most interesting thing perhaps is how global this phenomenon is. You have the above quarterlife crisis in north america, you have rioting muslim youth France, rioting Greek youth in Greece, massive protests and instability in Iran, the so-called "Mileuristas" in Spain (that is, people living on 1000 euros a month), etc etc.

Dismissing all of this with a simple wave of the hand about the whining of young people shows a complete lack of understanding.
someone gave me a sympathy vote! I just realized it wasn't quit this bad - it was more on Saturdays ( $0.06 a paper! )
Washing dishes at a steakhouse/buffet family trough at 16. Got in a knife fight one time with a mentally challenged but belligerent coworker. Avoid these places, but if you can't, avoid the bread pudding & ranch dressing. You really don't wanna know.
Not exactly , from the article - "Adobe said employees are asked to use paid vacation days during the closures."
I grew up on a farm to a lot chores that I were things that other would consider jobs.

But I would consider hard wood flooring my first job. Hard as f--- work, and the employer I worked for was known for being one of the hardest working men in his profession around, him being my dad.
19, wrote some Javascript for a travel search engine, $1000/mo (I grew up in India - there were no summer jobs worth doing because you can't compete with the cheap labour in India).
"What happens if the non-grad only invests 1% because that's all they can afford?"

The world is basically divided into two categories of people: those who can afford to save 10% of their income and those who are currently accumulating additional debt (I, as a college student, am in the latter group). The odds that your expenses exactly match the amount you need to spend are pretty small. If you find that you have exactly $0 left over at the end of the month- you don't have savings, but you aren't accumulating debt- you're probably just increasing your expenses until they match your income. You can live decently on $10K (after-tax) in this country.

"If the college grad invests all of their extra money, how long does it take them to catch up?"

Not long at all, but people don't. The American national savings rate is negative.
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Isn't that the same thing? They're being forced to take vacation at specific times. Just like they do in Europe.
Why must we live in a society where you have to go through such a long, expensive, useless process to be "qualified"? Sure, if you're planning for your own life, you have to deal with the realities of the world. But the person you're replying to was clearly talking about changing society.
Heh. I remember one open-book midterm in particular: my score of 56% got a B.

Michael Nielsen's conducting a different sort of Google 101 here: http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?page_id=503
This is a great example of why I don't have a startup project right now. There's nothing I can think of that I care about enough to want to work like that.
I'm not arguing against higher learning but for it -- and against the degree system that stands in its way.
Thanks for posting this, really great to see GitHub up there.
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So they can control it at will. By outlawing it, they can shut down whatever they don't like, and skim the top off the rest.
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From the charts I see TechCrunch.com is the domain with highest number of posts and points as well.
I agree. Earning money and respect pretty much by definition requires you to think about others. Reduced to bare fundamentals, to make money you need to think about what other people want and give it to to them because money is a very abstract paper definition of "what people want from each other".

People think "oh, to earn money I have to go to college" or "I have to go get a job". The more important point is: people don't fucking give a shit about whether you want to college or not. If you can give them nice software, food, pornography, or luxury items so they can show off they _will want_ to pay you a lot of money.
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What web-servers/frameworks are HTML 5 compliant?

I guess what I'm asking is, can ASP.NET, Apache, Tomcat (etc.) at this very moment spit out HTML5 code?
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On a related on, I once did a project where I simulated the synchronization of firefly flashes. In south east asia, 10000s of fireflies (of a particular species) synchronize their flashes and from a distance (at night) the colony on a tree looks like a big flashing bulb. It is quite awesome.

This is the link to my project: http://paraschopra.com/projects/firefly/

This is the link to downloadable Python code: http://paraschopra.com/projects/firefly/firefly.zip
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The big problem here is that Apple is not in the business of rating content like the Entertainment Software Rating Board or the MPAA, which makes it difficult for them to implement a similar age-appropriate-content rating system.
I agree. If the cost of labor rises, robots or software will appear in the marginal cases--expensive at first, but not ultimately--and supply, demand, and price will reach equilibrium again.

The world is a complex place. It's very silly to look at one piece of the system (people are living longer and having fewer children) and presume that nothing will actively respond to those changes.
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Typically, people in Silicon Valley get PTO (paid time off) to use for sick days or vacation.

By having a shutdown, people are encouraged to use up their PTO. If you don't have enough PTO, however, then it is effectively unpaid leave.
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The article works from the assumption that government funding defines retirement. This seems silly to me. Even if governments stopped paying old people entirely (unlikely), many would still retire. You're supposed to save for it. I'm certainly not planning to depend on a pension or government handout; they'd be nice if I could depend on them to exist, but why would I want to allow others to control the timing of my retirement or my livelihood?

The article also seems to draw the silly conlusion that since people are living longer and having fewer children, retirement will disappear entirely. Really? That might change the cost. Fewer folks might do it, or folks in general might have to do it later in life, but in a world as wealthy as this one, I doubt anything short of Armageddon could eliminate the practice entirely.
Am I the only one who started with a realish job?

Other than a 1-time thing here and there, probably less than 10 times in my life, my first job is right now. I'm coding for a small Rails company in Seattle for a realish salary (bad for coding, great for being 16). We do some consulting work and some of our own products.
This whole "anti-indian australian violence" is so stupid that only really naive people can take it seriously.
Unexpected (?) but very interesting. I've poo-poo'd some of the points you've just affirmed, perhaps from selective memory, so the anecdotal evidence is welcome.

I was also scared of sounding like a fool, and need privacy to practice.
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I'm not sure if this would qualify as my first job, but here I go: I used to run errands for my cousin at his car shop when I was 10-11 years old. I did a bit of everything: cleaning, moving/relocating car parts, and even painting at times. I used to get a tad more than $1 dollar a day, sometimes even less.

My first (second?) "real" job, however, was vastly more suitable for what would later become my passion in life: non-linear editor (yes, that was the official title). I was 18 when I landed the position. I was basically editing the news for a local TV channel in Dominican Republic. I was using a digital, Leitch editing panel attached to a PC running Windows NT. The paid was roughly $100 dollars a month. I've never wanted to work in anything that does not involve a computer ever since.
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Even if they had explicitly written Feynman's Lectures on Physics on the exam, the students could have asked Feynman to give a special lecture which happens to cover all of the exam material.
And my experience is that people save up PTO because if they leave for another job, or get laid off, they can take it as cash. So they have huge backlogs of PTO. Anyway it struck me as having some aspects of how things work in southern Europe.
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Anyone want to guess how long it will take for Microsoft SharePoint to copy this interface?
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How has it gone? Have you found any helpful sources?

I have since learned that LucidDB may be more appropriate for DW-style workloads than MonetDB. There was a LucidDB thread on HN recently that had more details.
> probably is an overall benefit to just about everyone

Disagree: the roads are packed, the hotels are packed, airlines raise prices a lot, and there's nothing you can do about it if you're forced to go then. I've always taken my vacations in July or September and remained in Padova during August, which is great - it's empty and has a relaxed, easy going feel which is absent during the rest of the year.

Also, if you're running a company that for some reason wants to stay open (by, say, letting your employees choose their own vacation time and having them not all go at once), you might still have a hard time of it because your suppliers and clients are all closed too.

Long vacations are good, but I don't care so much for the mass exodus in August.
I am somewhat familiar with the PACS situation (quick summary: frustrating as hell if you're used to open/commodity style technologies).

I was about to suggest some kind of plugin for OsiriX, but then I looked in your Help section and saw that one is already in the works...

What is needed is more open source options for PACS, especially servers, and your service may play a role in making things reasonable. OsiriX is very nice but unfortunately OS X only.

Also, it might be interesting to integrate this with remote image reading applications used by consulting/remote radiologists, since the images will already be "in the cloud".