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I believe he's saying that if you're in favor of disarming citizens as a means to reduce violence, then you should also be in favor of disarming police - or at least in favor of drastically changing the role armed police play in American law enforcement.
Good for you, but that requires an unusually enlightened employer. There were some people who managed to arrange safe jobs in the pre-OHSA days. Doesn't mean government intervention wasn't necessary.
Yeah, sorry, I just fixed it :)
Like an indie dev at apple/google shops? There seems to be way too many, looks like a lotery for me
You're burned out. Be very afraid of this.

If you can afford to, take a long vacation. If you can't, try to find something that brings you joy and do that thing every single day, without fail. Beware of burnout, it can cost you years.
You're 25 and still to young to worry about 'responsibilities', I'm 34 and have similar feelings and my appetite for adventure and greatness may just have to sit on the back burner for a few years if I want to settle down and have a family.

If your family care about you then they'll know you'll pay them back at some point.

If you've got something and feel that you're destined for greatness don't hide it away, it'll only make you miserable.

Live the dream whilst you can.
Just wait for the Tory Government to push the "greater private sector involvement in the NHS" argument to its limit (ie privatization): http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/28/cameron-warne...
It's not. I just have an instance of MongoDB running on a separate server.
True, it's an important distinction.
Did you happen to keep that bad cable ? Would be terribly interesting to see which kinds of bitpatterns would trigger it.
I know for a fact that I want to run my own business and attain financial freedom but I can't risk another startup at this moment because: 1. Startups are tough and I am afraid 2. I have a few financial responsibilities towards my family which I have to take care of.

I just turned 30 two weeks ago. I am married, have three children and a mortgage. I am leaving the government in December to build my start-up (visidraft.com) into a successful business.

The reality is, beyond a certain point your responsibilities will not shrink. The key questions once past that point are: Is your family on board; and is the risk probably worth the payoff? If you can answer yes to the first and maybe/yes to the second then your mind should be eased.

Beyond that though, it sounds like you need to figure out where you want to be and then set a path for how to get there. The fact that you had a positive in your favor liquidation event is massive and you should not spit at that. Maybe your path requires you slogging at a regular job for a little while, building up a war-chest to bootstrap the next project.

Bottom line is: you need to find a place that you want to be in the future and then determine what your vectors are to get there.
For people who are interested in this type of thing, I recommend listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast. I've listened for a few years now, and it is a fun/funny way to learn about science, critical thinking, and debunking bad science like this.
DNS, SMTP and such are boring services! R53 is robust cheap and doesn't need maintaining so .. go for it!
This is not really a technology issue, it's a non-union employee issue. As a society we're asking the government to step in and legislate to protect workers rather than fostering unions to negotiate on a case by case basis.

http://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/jul/23/e...
Yeah, that stuck out to me as well. Thinking like that is a sign that there may be larger issues at play here. Truly satisfied and happy people don't believe themselves to have been destined for greatness in any such manner - even though they may or may not be as "great" as anyone else. And conversely, truly "great" people, are often the benefactors of circumstance and luck more than anything else. Focusing on attaining the greatness that you were destined to achieve is a recipe for lifelong disappointment.
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Working at a regular company can provide you ideas for your next project. Find out how things are done, figure out how they could be done better. Your next startup should solve a problem for someone, why not solve a problem faced by your employer and its peers? In fact, there's a problem right there - a capable person like you doesn't want to work for a company like that - why? There is a problem there. Much bigger than what I had in mind when I started this comment.
That misses the point completely, which is that globalisation is forcing governments to accept a lowest common denominator of regulation.

You can debate the merits of this until the cows come home, but it doesn't change that it's happening, and while attempts to prevent it can have limited local short term success the long term perspective is that the power of government, even at the super national level (such as the EU) is being steadily eroded by private interests.

As an example, we all boo whenever a country bans Twitter, but that's just them enforcing their local regulations, which I'm sure they have very good reasons for. (i.e. they may legitimately prevent a riot) This is no different.
Google sponsoring 5 trips and tickets to JSConf EU for women in computer science
But how else would they make money?
As mentioned elsewhere, most people just read the title that says "out of office" and take action based on that. If it's low priority, they'll just let it wait until the person returns. They certainly wouldn't expect it to be deleted.
Actually working for someone really isn't that bad.

I had my own company for about 8 years and had quite a lot of fun doing it. The money wasn't great, but the freedom to do what I wanted was nice. Or so I thought at the time. I probably put in 60+ hours a week. I was constantly thinking about it. I rarely took long vacations simply because there really wasn't anyone to answer the phone when I wasn't there.

Then I gave it up, and went to work for client of mine and now had the freedom to actually take a couple weeks off. And to actually work on interesting projects without worrying about my paycheck. I had a wife and a 1 year old daughter and being able to leave the office and forget about work until tomorrow was wonderful. And it wasn't something I was able to do at my company.

After 13 years doing that, I've gone out on my own again. Consulting for my old employer and picking up a couple new gigs. Its not going to make me rich, but that's not important to me.

Anyways, enjoy the different kind of freedom of working for someone else. Maybe you'll find you like it. Maybe you wont. But at least you'll have some more experience under your belt.
You're listening to your gut! I'd say that's a pretty good start. Most people ignore what their gut is saying while they make the "comfortable" safe choice.

I would try to shift your mindset. Nothing is permanent, nothing is forever, and there is no perfect situation.

Try to view life as a series of choices. Right now you're choosing stability and that's fine. When your financial situation improves, you'll be able to make another choice.

Plus there is always bootstrapping on the side :)

Learn what you can out of your new situation and try to view it in the most positive light. It's not your ideal situation, but ask yourself "What can I learn from this experience?" and it will be easier to digest. A stable company has the potential to teach you about leadership, the structure of successful companies, how strategy scales beyond 3 people in a room, and you also have the potential to form friendships and relationships along the way.
Similar situation here too, but my grandmother sees enough and is able to use a laptop when I prepare a playlist. Inspiring project though, maybe I should take things up a notch (instead of resorting to a hard-to-use laptop) and make something similar.

One issue is that almost all Dutch audio books are abbreviated versions and even of those there are very few available. My grandfather is picky and my grandmother read nearly everything available at the library. The Internet has a bit more than the local library, but still not a lot. I myself just listen to audio books in English, but that's not an option for them.
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In a physical sense, future you _is_ someone else. All the atoms that make up our bodies are replaced within some timeframe. Sympathizing with future you shouldn't be predicated on that person having your personality anyway: we are all more than capable of sympathizing even with complete strangers. Perhaps we've been procrastinating much worse than we realize on that.
I think it's important to remember that in the world of the Internet, "running your own business" doesn't have to be "a startup." I'm 32, and had a similar realization a couple years back. I hated having bosses. I don't know if my ideas were the best, but I feel like I tend to have good gut instincts. I was tired of not having control of what I was doing.

I worked at a small web shop, a big ad agency, and a tiny remote-only web thing. I saw what people were doing, and what was out there, and knew that I knew enough that I could survive.

The hardest part was making the leap. To say "OK, I design and develop websites under my own flag," and then to find people. Having worked in the industry for a while, I had contacts, and so far (knock on wood) I haven't really had to do a lot of marketing. It's all mostly word-of-mouth. Build something, do a great job, get remembered/recommended, repeat.

Even though when you first get started you'll take a couple projects you might not be thrilled with to get your feet underneath you, soon enough you'll be raising your rates, getting to say no to projects your not interested, and maybe even working on small product-like projects too to mix in with your client-work. That's what I'm doing, I also co-lead development of a little CMS called Statamic. I use it on a lot of my clients' sites (if they're OK with it), and using it lets me improve it, while improving it helps me sell it.

It's not glamorous. It will probably never net me a 7-figure-profit for a year. But it's fun, challenging, and rewarding. You don't have to build a product that makes hundreds or thousands of people happy. You can build one site for one person and they'll be just as thrilled. And on top of that, all the challenges of business are there too. You get to pay taxes and everything. :)

You also mentioned family obligations. For me, being self-employed helps with that too. If something comes up, I can walk away from my desk and go help out — whether it's picking up the kids, or just meeting my wife for lunch if she's having a bad day.

Self-employment is risk, but it's a calculated risk that balances with freedom. If I want to make more, I take on more projects. The hardest part I've found is turning that off. ("You mean working 80 hours pays me 80 hours!? SIGN ME UP!" — that just leads to burn out.)

Anyway, I know Hacker News is more startup-focused, and that you're probably more interested in that, but I wanted to throw my two cents in that there are other things you can do relating to the Internet that are just as interesting and just as rewarding.
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> That's the only javascript framework one needs.

Tank: "It's a single celled protein combined with synthetic aminos, vitamins, and minerals. Everything the body needs."
I don't know much about the insurance or ride-sharing industry but on the surface it sounds like a great idea.
The next job can absolutely be used as training for your next gig. Also, the next job can be your financial foundation as you start your next gig on the side. Running a startup should not put your family's livelihood at risk. My father is an entrepreneur and frequently had several small side projects going on at any given time while I was growing up. Right now, he's focused on building up one business, but another business he built up previously is still bringing in solid income. Several great companies started as side projects while the founders were occupied with some other "real" job: GitHub, Google (perhaps debatable, but it started while the founders were full-time students), Facebook, Basecamp, and the list goes on and on. I once read James Altucher explain that he stayed at his "real" job for two years while he built up his side business. By the time he quit to work on his startup full-time, the startup was already extremely healthy with several full-time employees and enough customers to profitably pay everyone a great salary. Of course, you'll have to talk to your new employer to work out the legality of creating side projects. But if you pursue building something up on the side, you'll be joining a long tradition of entrepreneurs who have done the same, some of whom have built companies that will be remembered for centuries.
If I deleted all my holiday email on the day I returned, then I would actually have to work that day. I much prefer the current system of, "Sorry, I'm still working my way through my emails" while I get back up to speed.
Passengers have the inalienable right to choose the level of safety they feel comfortable for a price, and no goverment should confiscate that right.

That's the essence of free markets.
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And you'll still be lost when you're 35. Welcome to the human race. :-)
It's a wonderful project. I'm sure you building it makes him a lot happier than if you had found something ready to buy.
A purely cosmetic criticism - the logo looks almost exactly the same as the tumblr logo.
I would take 'enjoy the ride' a step further. Use the ride. If you are never anything but a successful entrepreneur you will fail:

1) To be a good boss to anyone except the elite talent
2) To understand how/why gears of productivity can grind to a halt as you get layers of management beneath
3) To have a vantage point to appreciate what you achieve later.
4) To meet anyone who you can say forever was there for you when things weren't going rockstar sexy.
1.: as the other wrote, there is the App called MyTaxi, which does the very same with regular Taxi service.
The funfact is, in Germany Taxi service is available on much more places than you think, even in the back coutry, and one requirement with a Taxi license in Germany is, that they are not allowed to deny a pickup. There is no surge pricing. You always pay the correct price and their is regular legal inspection that they don't cheat on you in terms of manipulation of the taxameter.

2.: The other App I mentioned, works the very same way and is even backed by one of the big rental companies, called Sixt.
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>are berliners really unhappy with the service?

It's quite simple: If they were happy with the status qup, Uber would not be able to gain a foothold. If they are not happy, Uber will be a popular alternative.
This sort of rules usually result in double standards. HR drones and other departments have great work-life balance. While software devs are chained to their desks, and can only take holidays when it suits company.
Hi, I am 28 years old, I never started my own startup but want to, I do not consider myself a underachiever cause there are young people making billion dollar deals, if you live for the news/press/media you will always fell a underachiever, the car of your dreams, the teenage singer that sold a million albums, you got the point.

You need to reflect what's most important for you, what makes you happy, is it money? Is it helping the other? Is it reading books? Does being happy mean having buck loads of money? Do you feel alone? Do you feel good about yourself being alone? Do you like the company you have? Partner, family, friends?

We live in a amazingly connected world with billions of people, so while you are brushing your teeth there will be people practicing gymnastics, people winning gold medals, launching new programming languages and selling million dollars companies, it's fine, you can't keep up with everyone, don't compare yourself, don't envy, the key is to understand what makes you happy, in a peace state of mind.
Most doctors in the UK would be offended if you asked them how much do you have to pay while you are in a hospital. Some even would take it as you offering them some kind of a bribe.
As a random user, i really like both idea and execution. The website looks good, the ux is simple and straight-forward. Everything is exactly as i expected it, which is a good thing.
Maybe a solution to this could be the mail client/system sending an automated email to the sender on your return (as a reminder).

"Two weeks ago, you sent me an email, however my mail client automatically deleted it. If it is something I can still help you with, please reply back with the original email.

-- this is an automatically generated email --"
Additional "worker compassionate" scheduling constraints could be easily added to the optimizAtion to fix this problem.

Corporations have to care about their employees. You don't hear Costco employees complaining.
I agree that the software connection is weak, but it can be a reminder to people that decisions made by software can have a real positive or negative effect on human beings, in ways that the software (and software makers) can't easily predict. How do we build more humanism into our apps?
Look at it this way: just the fact that you know you're "lost" puts you way, way, way ahead of the pack. "The pack" being, of course, all these kids working for Google, Twitter, Uber, etc who think they're on some glorious "path" to meaning and success just because they're doing something instantly recognizable and buzzworthy.
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By and large, American police don't tend to face groups of armed criminals.

There have been a few instances that come to mind - Bonnie and Clyde and assorted Prohibition Era gangs in the 1930s, Platt and Mattix in 1986, the North Hollywood Shootout in 1997 - but they are well known exactly because they are extremely uncommon.

It's more likely that an armed citizen would come to the defense and support of law enforcement than stand in opposition. This is exactly what happened in 1966 when Charles Whitman (suffering from a brain tumor) climbed a tower in Austin, Texas and starting shooting at passers-by. Citizens retrieved hunting rifles from their vehicles and homes and returned fire, helping pin down Whitman while law enforcement climbed the tower and killed him.

In the North Hollywood Shootout, responding officers didn't have rifles and were therefore pretty much completely outgunned. They turned to a local gun store and commandeered several rifles that were for sale there, which were essential to ending the standoff.
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This is good advice OP. I'm 28, have co-founded three startups, first one was "acquired" for the technology for an "undisclosed sum" (we all know what that means). I used to feel a little weird about it too, particularly because it chased the splitting of my cofounder and I; ya know what though, I built that technology and it was valuable enough to one of our customers to buy it.

That is definitely more than most founders can say. Don't let startup hype get to you.

The parent commenter said something else I want to echo: take some time and learn from other leaders right now, make money, get a good emergency fund AND a "startup fund" built. Get your hands dirty in other businesses and see what they're using spreadsheets for and what they are doing repetitively -- that's where you'll (most likely) find your next product opportunity.
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It's my point of view but why center your life around your job ? You already have done one impressive things for your age.

My advice would be do what you please, maybe take a job and learn things asides and live.

With such a resume you will not have problemes to find a job, why not just live ? Travel , meet people , try to learn things and skills.

And there is two things in life , things that you control and things that you can't control. Don't worry about the second part. Enjoy yourself and don't forget to laugh and have fun. Life is hort.

Even i you are the best in something, you may not achieve renown because of unluck or politic.

Find something / someone that you like and do it.
An other things is that as long people that you respect, respect you tell the others to f* off. You don't have anything to prove to anyone.

Once you will realise this you will be more peaceful.
Life is short enjoy , go out your circle of confort.

I worked in a lot of menial job (doorman was the worst for some aspect, having some drunk rich kids spent your monthly wage in one night) but you may find in something interesting in it (for me it was networking my contacts and practice undercover hypnotism on asshole drunk people).

Live. and don't forget to laugh :

For life is quite absurd

And death's the final word

You must always face the curtain
with a bow

Forget about your sin - give the
audience a grin

Enjoy it - it's your last chance
anyhow.

So always look on the bright side
of death...

(Whistle)

a-Just before you draw your terminal breath...
(Whistle)

Life's a piece of shit, when you look at it

Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true

You'll see its all a show, keep 'em laughin as you go

Just remember that the last laugh is on you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrdEMERq8MA#t=21
First, you need to get over the popular idea that the only way to do something great is to create a start up which gets bought for millions of dollars. That's really flashy and everybody likes having millions of dollars, but there's plenty of other ways to do great, important things.

It sounds like you're not excited about your new job. I understand that you took it anyway because you have financial obligations to your family, and that's great. But the solution is obvious; look for another job and/or do something you ARE excited about in your spare time.

It's up to you if you don't actively dislike the job you're taking, it just doesn't excite you, then maybe doing that full time and working on something exciting in your spare time is the way to go.

If you find your new job miserable, then look for a new one.
Bullets don't magically stop inside a person, they tend to pass through. If a sniper fired on a single armed person in a crowd, they'd likely kill them and wound 2-3 others around them - even if they fired only a single shot.

That didn't work out very well for the British when they did it in Boston in 1770, and I can't imagine it ending well in Ferguson in 2014.
> she was scheduled to work until 11 p.m. on Friday; report again just hours later, at 4 a.m. on Saturday;

I have family working for the german train company, which has highly fluctuating shifts too, but something like that would be straight-up illegal here.
I do this.

Every year or two, I get a tattoo representing an idea or a defining point in my life. There are a few that aren't in line with the current me, but they're a permanent visual reminder of who used to live in this skin, so I love them just as much. Sort of real-life version tagging.