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Journalists are paid to promote and spin, not to get things right.

I'm guessing a zombie'd process won't respond either. Which is good if you are checking for validity of a process and not just the mere presence of a pid in the process list.

> If someone is willing to buy your equity it's as good as cash.

Which means it isn't cash.

For fuck's sake, equity is not cash, stop using and thinking about it like cash.

And what kind of landlord would even go for this? Mortgages can't be paid in equity, either.

Because part of being in school is being around other people.

Plus you need all the right software.

So... he concludes that CPU bound tasks are CPU bound, and that parallelizing compilation (technically it would be the dispatch of compilation) is better?

Every time I read this guy I fail to get what his allure to developers is.

> suffered major destruction and were rebuilt after the invention of the car.

Really? Pretty much every single major city with 10M or more inhabitants in China (of which there are dozens, if not hundreds) was destroyed in WW2 and rebuilt after. There was no Marshall plan for this, which is why you probably had no idea. The US was not interested in helping communists in China or the USSR rebuild after WW2.

And even if a city wasn't destroyed, it was rebuilt just for the sheer hell of it 2 or 3 times in a row during the post-war period. Chinese cities have pretty much been being rebuilt continuously since 1950. Anyone who's ever gone would know this, which you obviously haven't.

So what exactly is your point, other than you didn't learn anything about China during your US or European history classes in high school?

You have to fail 3 or 4 times before you learn what to look for in a partner.

Startups are difficult.

> but later people start to get tired of it.

I assure you this is not the case in Los Angeles, Tokyo, Berlin, anywhere that car culture is the culture.

Once a place grows up with car culture, it very rarely loses it. That's the point of the article.

> "Print This Page". Cute. I am so not clicking through half a dozen pages on this slow-loading iPhone.

Clicking six times on an iPhone is way easier than typing that long-winded sentence with full punctuation and capitalization on an iPhone, wouldn't you say?

The only commercial maglev running right now is in China, not Japan.

Were there American airbases in Russia, or China?

That architecture diagram makes no sense.

> Of course, he himself uses a VPN to dial out.

Sounds like class warfare. Same shit, different country.

> It always makes me wonder why.

This doesn't make me wonder at all.

The US and China were the two biggest allies in World War 2, became economically unified during the cold war to defeat the Soviet Union (remember the Soviet Union?), and now are the two biggest economic powers in the world. Don't look at official GDP figures, they're meaningless. Look at influence, manufacturing/logistical and financial power centers, and purchasing power parity.

After all, what is China but a United Provinces of Asia? You think 1.3B people are naturally part of the same country/culture/creed/flag? No fucking way, to think otherwise is racist ignorance.

Japan is quickly being usurped by Korea as well. Once the re-unification of Korea happens and there is a large source of inexpensive labor from the North for the developed economy in the South to employ, Japan will start its relative decline. They've already started to use Chinese manufacturing to remain competitive and leverage what's left of their engineering/design head-start given to them by the Marshall plan and previous Imperialist mindset.

The big picture, folks. It's always worth looking at.

> Compare a four year degree to two years of travel and two years work experience in your chosen field. Which do you think has the edge?

With the right school, you can do all 3.

> What establishes a right to be at Stanford?

Stanford does.

Because a company the size of Verisign isn't just one guy at a shell prompt generating keys for customers.

Trust is expensive. It's probably the most expensive thing you can buy in modern society. A thousand bucks is a deal, if you ask me.

> 3-4 of the best years of your life is a hefty price to pay

Those 3-4 aren't really going to be the best unless you're in an environment with young girls, beer, drugs, and class, where you get to meet new people.

What are you going to do, get a job instead?

Don't make me laugh.

This guy Tim Ferriss is a master BS artist.

I'm talking about the users who deem it a major event in their lives that their social portal changed layouts, not the entrepreneurial hackers discussing how this has implications for future profits for their own projects.

Think more meta, man.

The real question is: who has nothing else better going on in their life that they must complain about a FB redesign?

> But, I doubt most people think of Google in that way, including engineers

You can bet the people calling the shots at Google are thinking of it that way.

These designers who went to work for google strike me as incredibly naive.

Google was founded by two computer scientists, helmed by a former electrical engineer, and stacked to the rafters with mathematicians and statisticians. Their original investors were exactly the same types.

Can anyone think of another type of firm that fits this general description? That's right people - hedge funds!

Can you imagine a visual designer walking into a hedge fund and expecting free creative reign? It's absolutely naive. They were working for a bunch of quants and numbers people that are turning the online advertisement industry into a derivatives trading market.

Read that last sentence again.

Google is Wall St. West without suits or ties, I don't know why more people don't understand this better. They're blinded by bright colors I guess.

You were cheap and you've been had. Learn two lessons and move on.

> Asian cultures.

Oh my god dude. You mean all the people from Asia who came to the US for the explicit reason to bust their ass and get rich.

Go to Asia, if you've never been (I'm guessing not). You're going to find plenty of lazy people who aren't that smart.

This whole "model minority" concept is so incredibly degrading and haughty. It's a bunch of white people thinking they are doing a group of people a favor by applying a label to them.

Oh you should be so proud - you're not like how most other dark skinned people are! So smart and able to succeed!

The article states this is a third fund owned by Sequoia and managed by YC. More than likely some of Sequoia's investors got intrigued and wanted to get into the YC game, but didn't feel like taking their money elsewhere because Sequoia has been good to them. Best of both worlds.

Vitamins aren't the only reason I eat fruits and vegetables. They aren't pills or medicine.

> Which products contain corn syrup?

Every packaged food in the US comes with an ingredient label.

More than likely up until lately you thought only hippies would be interested in knowing what's in their food.