jimmyhwang

I would agree that the comment section is not naturally below the content like most websites. However, at least for me, I'm getting annoyed with loading a full website where the comments take up 80% of the entire page. I'm assuming the point of them "hiding" the comment section is a design choice to reduce loading comments that may not be what the reader wants to read.

Maybe a happy medium would be to have a more obvious "click button" that would allow for comments.

Amazing job! How long did it take and were there any tools you used to make this faster?

Am I going nuts? Because squareup.com for me is down.

This framework is very similar to case interview questions management consultants use during their interviews. The bit about repeating the question not only buys you some time to think about the problem some more, but also allows you to confirm your assumptions (as the write notes).

As another comment pointed out, the best way to become better at this process is to practice. I know when I was preparing for my consulting interviews, I practiced the framework with a friend for weeks at a fast food joint so that I had the process down. Once you can perform the process instinctively, you can focus your brain cells on actually solving the problem.

What concerns me about Mr. Miller's proposal is that if we went to a marked-to-market and in year 1 the stock gained 100%. Then let's assume that provided the government with $5Bil in taxes, the government would spend that money like a kid in a candy store. Then what would happen if that stock lost 50% of it's value in year 2? How would the government have the funds to "refund" that $5Bil back? Would they just print more money?

This idea doesn't take into account how volatile the market is and the nature of government to spend during any surplus. Not to mention all the overhead needed to find fair "marked-to-market" values for pre-IPO companies.

And as other comments have stated, if this were to happen, what would be the motivation of CEOs to drive the price of the stock higher? Wouldn't it be in their best interest to keep it low so their tax bill would be lower?

Wow, this is pretty sick. I wonder how much time it took to create this.

Yes it is

I have a 15" MBP and I've played around with the 13" MBA and I will say that the real estate issue isn't noticeable. Unless you have difficultly in reading smaller icons and fonts, having the same resolution made very little difference to me.

I will also note that the keyboard feels better on the MBA and the weight is a SIZEABLE difference (~3lbs vs. 5.5lbs).

The downside of course is if for some reason you need better specs, the MBA is only an i5 and maxes out at 4GB of RAM.

Well, I still appreciate that this article came up again. I'm still new to HN and I wouldn't have gone through the search method to find a beginner's guide to Node.

Thanks again for creating this tutorial. Great introduction to Node and also well written.

But by doing that, you have an inherit risk of potentially getting a worse return than the bonds you issued. The government shouldn't be in the investment management industry. They already have enough issues trying to manage the country.

Is anyone else getting a "Quota Limit" when they click the screen?

I feel the same way. I don't understand the point of this allegory other than to insight discussion and get ranked highly on HN.

Maybe I'm used to reading "easy" articles that provide a problem and possible solution to it. I haven't read the allegory of the cave since college so I'm not used to thinking this hard... (laziness on my part I guess)

I agree with you. I just recently quit my consulting gig and I would tell my 21 year old self to work for a company that creates "real value."

But the experience I gained during my 2 1/2 years exposed me to multiple industries and I starting thinking much more "strategically" when analyzing businesses. Also, I worked with probably some of the smartest people you could assemble (less a few "odd" ones).

Also, the expense account was nice and fed me well.

The server crashed...

(per the site owner's words: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3061633)

I guess it's time to upgrade...

Congrats on getting all the traffic though!

Can anyone else see the article? I'm getting redirected to http://127.0.0.1/2011/10/the-great-cul-de-sac-problem-and-ho...