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Will single founders please stand up? (Musical edition.)

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Thanks, Patrick. I just met with my board of directors and we voted 1-0 to adopt this as our company song.

Holy shit, I was going to comment that every time I visited hn yesterday I started singing in my head: alllll the single founderssss, allllll the single founders. This is awesome.

I hear "All the single founders, where do they all belong" to the melody of Eleanor Rigby's refrain.

Wow. Taking white and nerdy to a level even Weird Al can't step to. Well done, Patrick!

Whenever I read that thread title I always hear that stupid Beyonce song ("all the single ladies") in my head. It's awful.

On the contrary, it was quite possibly the best video of all time.

of all time

Go put it to some dope beat homey!

http://www.beatslocker.com/download.php

http://www.worldwidebeats.net/

Go put it to some dope beat homey!

Homey? Seriously?

For sure. A HN homey!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=homey

Cool Patrick, and nice that my vi gang sign got in the song too!

Thanks! That was one of my favorite lines in the song -- name checking you keeps the structure of the original intact while cleaning it up and geekifying it in the bargain. It was also the inspiration for hyperlinking everything because I was pretty sure most people would miss that joke otherwise.

(throwing down my vi sign and representing my set)

that was a horrible song

Samir: Yes, this is horrible, this song. </office space>

Particularly the bit where the song doesn't rhyme. Now can I get back to HN? I already have Reddit in the other tab.

"For example, you might on listening be under the impression I have not quit my day job, which is not accurate as of last Monday."

Now that's the article I look forward to reading. Sounds like a big step, so congrats and best wishes.

Thanks. I probably won't make a big deal out of it until I am physically separated from the day job. (I wrote this post at something like 2 AM and that line make it past my internal editor.)

My employers and I are negotiating the details of my departure. They'd prefer if I stayed until August, I'd rather leave in about April. (Strictly speaking my contract allows me to give them two weeks of notice rather than several months but I am quitting a job you just don't quit, and I don't want to burn any bridges or poison the well for their future foreign employees.)

job you just don't quit

Did you really mean "just don't quit", and not "don't just quit"?

If there really are jobs in Japan that you are obligated to stay at for life, that would seem to be a pretty large impediment to growth.

The social norm for men who work in my status (seishain (正社員), company employee) is that we have essentially guaranteed employment to retirement and that in return for this we work extraordinarily diligently for our employers until retirement.

My relationship to this social norm as a foreigner is a little weird.

You've missed a trick when you decided to be a programmer :)

Coming soon: music bingo !

>You've missed a trick when you decided to be a programmer

Not necessarily: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1045758

Nice job!

effffinnn awesome!!!

Groan.

Imma let you finish...http://bit.ly/8J0yxb

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