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Derek, we met a while ago when you came down to Dunedin. I'm glad you finally made the move down here.

What I found very interesting is that your decisions are driven not by where to move TO, but what you're moving away FROM. Your trip to Oregon, then to Singapore and now NZ seems to follow the similar route. From a vastly different culture and super-densely-populated .sg to the extreme remote and lonesome place like .nz.

I feel that's probably not the best way to go for it. Instead of trial-and-error, how about a search algorithm? Instead of "Why am I here", why not ask "Where do I WANT to be?".

Here was the list of criteria me and my wife came up when we were drifting around for a year to look for a city to settle down.

Crucial:
1) Small country with around 5M population. Coming from China, I feel lots of the problems of modern society & politics is there because of the large degree of separation.
2) Walkabout city. We love walking. I want to make sure the walk from home to office takes no more than 30 minutes.
3) Close to nature. Tramping is our main hobby. We want to start walking in the wild with less than 1 hour drive. (Reality is the closest one is 5 minutes walk from home but that's a bonus.)
4) With a high quality university. This gives us the continuous flow of different ideas even the city is small.
5) Price is moderate. We want to have the leisure time to spend with our families and work on our hobbies. Affordable housing and reasonable prices give us the lifestyle we want without having to work our butts off.

Ok to give up:
1) Museums, galleries and fine restaurants. Even when we were living in Seattle or Boston, we spend more time on solitude activities like walking and reading. So cultural stuffs are great but we won't die if we don't have them.
2) Varieties of products/shops. We don't buy a lot of stuff and when we do, we buy ones that last very very long but not particularly in-the-fashion. So don't have much choices is not a big problem for us.
3) Weather. I love San Diego's weather. Never too cold. Never too hot. But if it's a city that rains a lot and doesn't have a proper hot summary, we're fine with that.

We visited and stayed in more than 40 cities during that year. Some we stayed 2 months, others a few days. When we started the trip, we have never heard of Dunedin. But those criteria helped us to quickly sift through the options and lead us to this unusual decision.

Three years later, we still feel grateful that we made that choice. Life is good here.

A warm welcome from Dunedin, New Zealand.
God, I hate taxis.. always beeping at you when you take 1 second to cross the street or make a turn (if you're riding in front of it)
No, you wouldn't. There aren't even PC emulators that include 3d graphics, only emulators that provide graphics card passthrough or provide software to install inside the emulator to pass high-level graphics commands to the host's OpenGL implementation. Nobody has a binary-compatible GeForce (or Radeon) emulator.
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The "moderators on StackExchange" shot was good, but I really take offense to the "PyCon 2013" one. The reason stuff went wrong at that conference was because of the actions of one attendee, who specifically did not go through the process the conference organizers set up for dealing with reports of harassment.
Three Felonies a Day seems to be par for the course.

https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-J...
You seem to have a thing for posting sources that don't cite anything they claim.
Read up on pacifism and its history and various philosophies. I use spectrum to indicate that there are a variety of pacifist philosophies and I'm not wrong, because there are a variety of pacifist philosophies. They all desire a world with zero violence. But some are willing to defend themselves or others against violence with violence, while others are not. Some won't even allow you to defend them, they'd rather fall on the sword than let another perform a violent act for their sake. To think that there's a singular philosophy on this issue is a totally ignorant position to take.
Joel here. This is a really interesting point, I've thought about it a lot.

From the linked article:

"In Startupland, everybody should be working towards the same goal: that big juicy exit. That’s the only payday any CEO should be worried about (even though more than half of them will never get it)."

I can't agree with that, and this is a key reason I spoke with others in the team and we decided that my salary as well as other c-level salaries should be quite high at this point. We're not planning an exit anytime soon.

Until a day ago, my salary was $118,000. In the first year, my salary was zero and in the second year it ranged from $55,000 to $75,000.

We're at a point with Buffer where there's a massive opportunity, and I'm going into my 4th year now. At $2.3M ARR and being cashflow positive (revenues cover the salaries) we're in growth mode and this isn't investor money we're using to fund these salary levels.

I completely agree that in the early years this would be a big red flag. I think the further you go, the more that notion reverses. I've heard that it can be a red flag if the CEO is not paid enough.

Would love to hear any other thoughts here, it definitely was a tough decision to make and I'm glad that by putting this out there we get all this valuable feedback.
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how is it supposed to retarget you without cookies then?
I'll bet its even rarer that you have visited Putin's Russia or talked to any of the citizens who live there, not emigrants who have left but the people who still live there and who do not want to leave.
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Even more recently: the French were blasting off bombs in the Pacific in 1996
Sound thinking, re-asking a question whose answer changes over life. Without complete attachment to your chief focus there is no reason to keep up a previous life.
Don't believe that link. It's garbage designed to pander to women-hating adolescents — a group that the person you replied to has no problem flaunting his affiliation with.
And the reformed, wise old man wants to erase all traces of his former book? Maybe he could gather them up and burn them?
>anyone who is an undocumented immigrant has no free speech because they will be snatched

Why would you think your free speech rights should give you immunity from deportation if you're not actually here legally? Protesting while obviously out of compliance with the law is quite a bit different from being suppressed by a completely fabricated charge.
Everyone seems to neglect the importance of good data collection techniques. This is the main distinction. Good and well-planned data requires nothing more than munging and basic averages for actionable results.
It reads like overdramatized amateur fiction.
I was/am in a mood something like this after reading Godel, Escher, Bach. I can't say I've found a simple way back, but if you're into detailed psych Eric Fromm's books in English were fascinating to read and helped a bit. (Escape from Freedom, Man for Himself, Sane Society)

If you aren't so much into that (or even if you are) professional help is not a bad thing.
Netflix is a big offender here.
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Who are you? What do you want?

/babylon5
Me neither, I'm just saying this "sell your virtual hat collection to pay for video games" future is already here.
I don't think it's an unreasonable thing to point out. Let's not pretend that there are no problems with sexism in tech. While this may or may not be a good example, literature normalizing that programming is a "boy's club" contributes to the problem that programming is perceived as exactly that - a boy's club.
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My favorite bug came just after starting a job. There was a C++ program that was being run 32-bit on servers with 8GB of memory, back when that was a lot, because it would crash when compiled 64-bit. I was assigned the task of making it work.

After many, many fruitless debug sessions the problem turned to be that the structure packing was different between two different compilation units. In some compilation units a particular structure was 56 bytes, in others 48 (or something like that). This was Bad.

There was an unterminated pragma-pack which was included in some compilation units but not others. In 32-bit mode it didn't cause any problems, because the structures were optimally packed anyway, but in 64-bit mode, when pointers were 8 bytes, the structures packed differently when the unterminated pragma-pack was included in the header before them.
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What about multiple "users" in Chrome? If you go to the settings page, you can add additional "users" and then open a window as another "user" using the icon in the upper right corner.

Each user gets their own profile: cache, cookies, history, saved data, extensions, etc. The only thing shared should be IP address and user agent. (Unless the user infects the profile with a url that identifies them.)

I use this for testing, isolating my facebook profile, and isolating all of my banking sessions from my main browsing window. (Just in case they have a CSRF issue.)
Yes, climate change is a gigantic issue. But the existence of collective action problems does not imply conspiracy or even willful neglect. It is easy to blame one person or one entity, but that is missing the point. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action#Collective_a...
If you wanted to draw a completely different conclusion, sure, but this is talking about how the male-dominated gaming community treats women. It's not talking about how a female-dominated gaming community would treat men.

Anecdotally, the gaming communities that I've been a part of that have had more representation of women have been much more pleasant.
"designed two processors". No. We had working A0 production runs of two chips, with a the A0 of the third generation in the post when we closed. Leaner? Not really. Sales team was three people more the executives, everyone else was engineering. Meaner? Who on earth pulls off two working A0 runs?
it depends on the age of the child. ages 5-12 will probably be fine, but if you do this to a high school kid, there will be hell to pay. it will not end well.
I have personally talked to a few granddads who were alive at that time, many years ago. I wanted to hear from them, if and why they supported the nazi regime. That's because as a kid, when you hear these things, you're getting suspect of your own neighbors.

However, when I talked to those granddads, it became very clear that they knew what was going on. They not only had a sharp memory of what happened, but also tried to make their ideology and actions appear harmless. It's always the same story. "I had no idea what was going on. And what could I have done, even if I knew it?"

The stinky story falls apart, when they start explaining how it was back then. After an hour of talk you get the sense that they try to defend something that is simply illogical. Most Germans today, don't agree with any part of the NS-Period, but cannot get rid of their own hate against Jews, colored people or different people. You've recently read this story about the guy who got him self arrested, right? Try to suit up like a Jew, a Black, a Gay or any other enemy of the old regime and you will really understand how it is. On Halloween you can go out as one without looking weird, but even though the setup is artificial, I'm sure you will get reactions that you wouldn't expect and from people from whom you wouldn't expect it.

Once a disabled man knocked our door and asked for a signature. He tried to use sales tactics to get his signature, but when I found out what it was for, which he strongly tried to hide, I was shocked. He blatantly tried to get our votes for their nazi party. That's not a year ago. Of course, I told him to go the f* out of here and that he should read a book, which explains how his own party burned people like him alive, and then think about his political views.
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Neither of your links cite any actual sources, and the second link conflates "reported rapes" with "estimated rapes".

I'm actually concerned why you aren't hellbanned yet.
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You can't compare "minor violence against one person vs. extreme violence against one person", and "extreme violence against one/a few people vs. extreme violence against numerous people."

Can anyone think of a terroristic act that resulted in one or more deaths actually leading to less net violence? Most seem to cause more violence: Dorner shooting police, causing police to open fire on civilians they thought were him. 9/11 leading to many innocent deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq. People are much more likely to respond to violence with violence, than they are to respond with it to peace.
As a kiwi I am offended about your cuisine comment.... I am also nodding in absolute agreement.

In NZ you need to play to the strengths. You'll get some of the best seafood and wine in the world. Freshly caught fish, simply cooked, with a bottle of South Island white wine. Glorious.

Also, the nature helps. A cup of tea and some smoked mussels. Usually mundane -- but, after you've just hiked up a mountain and you're sitting on a ridge. Delicious.
Yeah, Laravel is pretty much the modern framework for people who can't divorce themselves from CodeIgniter.
Completely reasonable. I think wealth is almost always created by communities and not individuals, so I'm skeptical of the idea of anyone being purely "self made."

I am willing to concede there is a common definition of the term that is less strict. However I've never heard a definition of the term where a millionaire by birth is "self-made."
Judging by the comments in this thread, it's not a problem with parents letting children play video games. It's a very real problem with adult men.
Exactly! Great answer! The point is NOT to always move!

Usually the "Why am I here?" question just reminds you why you are where you are.

Being somewhere for great friendships is a great reason.
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They did it out of self-defense (and also general defense). Violence from self-defense is completely different from retaliatory and/or "message-sending" violence.
How would they find that out without first spying on you?
http://swannodette.github.io/2013/12/17/the-future-of-javasc...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P3BLR31VA8cvLJLfMibSuTdw...

Q.E.D

Get your core model and concepts right, everything else follows.
I think it depends on your workflow; for me, the keyboard is the single most important thing, then probably portability and RAM. Screen and CPU are pretty low on the list.
That is not the entire debate. Pacifism and non-violence are not the same as inaction. It's a question of intent. It's indisputable that yanking a child's arm to remove them from danger is NOT violence, because the intent is one of protection.
I was a requirement of being with me. A 2nd-date question:

"How would you feel about living in the rest of the world for the rest of your life?"

Many girls I dated really just wanted to stay near family or friends. Then I found someone willing to keep going. :-)
Thankfully never happened to my coworkers.

But many years ago I reported a pretty severe vulnerability in a common piece of software. A patch was issued and that was it. One of the developers then stopped answering emails and later I learn he died, probably by suicide. To this day I don't know if both events were related but I try to be extra nice when reporting vulnerabilities to developers since then.
How does retargeting work through Incognito mode?
Because freedom of speech is more important than immigration bullshit, and because arresting people on unrelated charges is one of many tools in the toolchest of those who wish to silence dissent.

It is one of many chilling effects that makes large scale movements all but impossible in the US. Police simply wander around spotting people they think might have something in their past that allows them to arrest them. I'm a middle class white guy, and I've been detained and had my ID run at least a dozen times in the past two years, merely for having the gall to show up at a protest. I've never been arrested, and never had a warrant, so I don't fear being detained the way many would...but knowing that you will very likely be targeted just for being present, even if you aren't breaking any laws, insures a whole lot of people simply don't show up.

So, by saying this is OK, as long as it is not a "completely fabricated charge" you're insuring that there is no such thing as a large scale movement to change anything in the US. Most people cannot afford to be targeted by police in the way that a lot of activists I know have been.

I believe that undocumented workers have the right to free speech. I believe that people with warrants have the right to free speech. They don't have that free speech because they know they are likely to be targeted by police if they exercise that speech for dissent (just like anyone expressing dissent becomes a target). It's just that the cost of being targeted by police is so much higher than it is for someone like me.
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Hi HN Folks. A bit of background on how the site came to be: http://antrix.net/posts/2013/xdd/

I'd appreciate any feedback you have on the site!
Asking for what you want isn't necessarily pushy. And yes, people should learn to ask for what they deserve.

But knowing what you deserve is a complicated art that involves measuring yourself against your coworkers and your industry, and having a good working knowledge of the current market. For the people who don't know what they want, some of them are going to err on the side of asking for too little, and some will ask for too much. I would much rather spend my time bringing the shy up than battering the arrogant down to something reasonable.
If you're not going to read the sources you specifically requested, I'm not going to bother.
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http://www.npr.org/2012/08/08/158433079/virtual-harassment-g...

http://www.vg247.com/2012/09/08/study-80-of-gamers-believe-s...

> Matthew’s study found that women were harassed four times more than men

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/08/sexua...

http://www.themarysue.com/academic-study-game-harassment/

HN, please downvote this guy.
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I have to do that when my client's employees quit or are let go. Even though I know they are alive and healthy, I still often wonder if I will ever see them again in my life. So many people have come and gone over the years that I can't even remember. When I disable their account and archive their emails and documents, it feels like I am saying good bye to them for ever. Groupon's bots will soon find out that user 'jsmith@example.com' is no longer here.

My archives will be slightly larger but nightly backups of active users documents will get a bit quicker. I used to have lunch with you user 'rjackson' but now that you got fired for doing something pretty bad, we will most likely never talk again.

And with that one command, a person leaves my life forever.
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Incognito mode doesn't hide the IP address.

Anyway, the solution to this problem is dead simple: Do your shopping at work, or at a library.
An excellent example of the Hacker News subtype, Too Good To Enjoy Anything.

This specimen can usually be found three or four comments below top comment expressing extreme negativity or pessimism at any kind of good announcement, or as we see here, latching on to an irrelevant pedantic argument as reasoning for why a particular submission cannot be enjoyed. A deeply cynical creature, the TGTEA, or tigtea as it is sometimes called, generally shuns from new stimuli for fear of the feeling of pure enjoyment. For instance, even though this comment provides examples the OP asks for, it's unlikely this particular specimen will enjoy this comment.
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Another one for the taxonomy:

"Social Justice-Driven Developer" - Spends most of his/her/their/xis/xer day trolling through the documentation, commit logs, code comments, and e-mails trying to find latent gender bias (when not doing so on discussion boards like HN.) Occasionally makes passive aggressive one-line commits to correct gender pronouns, spurring long internal e-mail chains that ultimately call more attention to the gender of the female/trans/nongendered developers on the team than otherwise. Sometimes causes people to get fired or become the target of widespread Internet outrage.
Well, that's the problem.

If the digital currency doesn't have any significantly attractive qualities outside its use as a store of value, it's a shitty currency.

If you can make a currency that people will use on a day to day basis, voluntarily, despite having 4% inflation (which is a much better target, economically -- the 2% is the weaksauce compromise with the anti-inflationists), then you've created something which has real utility.
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In short: no, not by a long shot
Luckily I haven't had such experiences so far. I guess people go through too many daily stresses, especially in tech life. As the only girl in my team, its hard for me to say no to unpaid overtime because most of other folks can't seem to say no to overworking themselves afterhours and on weekends, giving people others who don't a bad name.
I got a Facebook notification about a friend's birthday the other day, who passed on from brain cancer over two years ago. It is an eerie feeling, for a brief moment it's like she was still alive and well just everyone else on Facebook, and her death was just a bad dream.
But parent has a very good point. You need to develop clarity around what specific problem your product is solving. Especially since you're bootstrapping with a day job. You don't have the resources to tackle a general, abstract problem (ie Excel). You need a very very tight niche and a very specific target audience.
This is great. I can pretty much put a timestamp on each of these of "when I started acting like this", "when I realized I was acting like this", and "when I made a conscious effort to stop acting like this."
I really do love that your answer to #1 proves #2.

There are a handful of companies that are trying to get more women into tech. That's great! However, that doesn't mean #1 is wrong. It just means your industry (or even those companies) is in the minority.
How do those track you then? Do they only use ip address? Seems like that would really fail for any offices that use NAT.
You're giving me a choice between risking the company's failure and rooking some of the employees out of pay they could get if they were more self-serving?

I deny the choice. I think most companies that make a habit out of underpaying good people to stay barely in the black don't survive in the long haul. If I were faced with that choice, I'd be honest with everybody about the financials and we'd work something out. Either we're pursing something pretty lucrative, in which case it's a temporary deviation from market rates, or we're barking up the wrong tree, in which case the company isn't worth doing.