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darjenon Ask HN: I want to make a webapp. Where do I start?

I'm working on a new commerce app for a well known large company, with GWT on the front end. In the past I've worked with most of the well known Java frameworks - spring, struts, JSF... It's a different way of thinking, but it has been pretty enjoyable to learn so far.

darjenon "Intellectual property" is a silly euphemism

"I think that, when pressed, many people who sympathize with Doctorow in this debate would assert that a thing that has no physical manifestation conveys no rights to its creator. But I wish they would come out and say that directly"

That is exactly what many IP opponents state. For example -

Against Intellectual Property, by Stephan Kinsella:

http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/15_2/15_2_1.pdf

darjenon Why Does Popcorn Cost So Much at the Movies?

They said it's to keep the price of movie tickets down? You gotta be kidding me! I think they're a rip-off as it is, which is why I subscribe to Netflix instead.

darjenon Ask YC: Hard time at a startup

This is similar to my first Java position. It wasn't a start-up, but it was a small downtown consulting company. It took me a while to do anything simple and my boss seemed to recoil in horror whenever I asked a dumb question. I ended up lasting 6 months there. This was after moving to a new town to take the position and signing a year long lease.

It turned out to be a good thing, though. Two weeks later, I ended up getting a job paying $5k more. It motivated me to get better, and now I am fairly competent at back end development. Don't sweat it, things will work out for the best. Sure it sucks to go through. I was afraid of getting fired, and I did. But for me, it was something akin to a refiner's fire. Either way, you'll become better because of it, as long as you don't take anything personally.