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holy shit

Sure, if you want to be pedantic, the Civil War was about States' rights...but really only one right; legal access to slaves.

The "States' rights" argument is trotted out by the Lost Cause folks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy) who want to pretend their affection for the South is somehow noble or genteel.

Voting for Johnson isn't a wasted vote, if the Libertarian Party can start showing double-digits, they will start getting invited to debates etc. Until they are invited to televised debates, they will indeed remain a joke.

Keep selling stuff to keep investors happy...when nothing of value is left, declare victory and leave

Those Chromebooks in many cases get coupled with Google's classroom software. One doesn't imply the other, but lots of schools seem to be jumping on the integrated platform.

The post to which I was responding made the absurd claim that technically-minded/introverted individuals who score high on tests can approximate themselves to being geniuses. I really don't think it was much of a reach to ridicule that assertion...given that it is...well, ridiculous.

Right...many people seem to confuse genius with being really smart.

Intelligence, even super-intelligence, is rarely a key determinant of success, despite what you will read here.

Okay, the people who serve lunch to the movie crew also gets their names in credits. She has a job...cool, but its not any more meaningful than anything else because her industry makes you look at a scrolling list of everyone related to the project.

> Also, you might do well to assume that a large majority of the people here that you are trying to put down also tested in top percentages in school tests. The audience of YC and HN is self-selected nerds.

Which is exactly why so much of the discussion here is predicated on middlebrow intellectual checkboxes instead of legitimate insight.

But if you want to keep thinking this is some genius society, I can't stop you.

> My sister spent hours with a coloring book as a kid, and now has a growing IMDB page

Anyone in SAG can have an IMDB page. I know this because I have a child who has one after doing some trivial commercial and short film work...it really isn't a high bar, sorry.

I just knew these comments would fill up with humblebrags from HNers who wish to casually and inoffensively proclaim their genius.

You shouldn't worry about software being late. Work at a good clip with the time you have. This is just the norm for this industry and the only managers who presume otherwise are themselves novices.

Well look at it this way....if all of those things were to be provided to you, they could probably find someone to do your job for 30% less. There are some upsides to software being a total shitshow.

Of course, and prop 13 also creates soft forms of blight. Old people stay in their homes long after they should have sensibly downsized...but ANYWHERE they move in California (even into a one-bedroom condo in nowhere-ville) will increase their property taxes! So they don't move. But they also can't afford the outrageous local costs for upgrades and basic maintenance, so their homes are slowly falling apart.

True, but the Prius is the greatest ANTI-Peacock vehicle ever! To police, it is invisible. I have never been given a second glance by a police officer even when I am clearly speeding. Cops just seem to tune them out as granny cars.

Well hopefully my comment didn't imply that living in Palo Alto meant you were destined to go to Stanford...but there IS a real connection...many residents went to Stanford, and for better or for worse, many have already made the outrageous guaranteed-admission donation, which , as you say, is in the millions.

Tech money is literally raining down on Stanford. The only thing left to upgrade on the campus is to line the gutters with platinum. Its sad given that San Jose State actually educates more local workers...but connections to Stanford are a real social network for some of these people.

This needs to be reinforced. Go look at Fortune's list of the world's most valuable companies. Those that are American are all located with a one-hour drive.

I live near a ton of Apple executives. They have moved here from all over the world. Simply put, if you want to work at (for example) Apple and have a significant position in the company, you must be here. Must.

Cupertino does have great schools. That is more a factor of the cultural heritage of the city - it has a rich history of attracting Asians, who have instilled the schools with their drive and focus on education. The only negative people will ascribe is the high pressure to achieve at schools like Monta Vista.

Palo Alto public schools -do- rank very highly. There are also preschool programs run by the Stanford education college that are well-regarded. Local private schools rank among the best in the nation (as well as being absurdly expensive), and you will find lots of kids that go to school all over the world...their parents can afford it.

I get that you don't like Palo Alto. Its not Oz. But you seem to be casting it as a dumpy suburb that has exploded for no reason.

(edit: wow, you really don't like Palo Alto!)

Their kids go to Harker and Castilleja, which can actually claim to be some of the best schools in the nation.

And of course there is a decent college nearby, just sayin :)

(and to your point about moving to Cambridge to go to Harvard...sorry, but many of the techies -do- have ties to Stanford...and if your parents went to Stanford, you will be shortlisted when you apply...AND EVEN FURTHER, if your parents make a donation of a certain large amount, Stanford effectively pre-selects you, this has been communicated to people I know personally who have already made the donation in question...so yes, some of the residents can probably already start buying red sweaters)

With all due respect, you were there for what, three hours?

Well beyond just the jobs, the networking, etc...the Bay Area does have some intangible non-tech-related amenities that are hard to find elsewhere

Look at an aerial map of the Bay Area and take a gander at the hundreds of thousands of acres of incredible open spaces. These are all within a short drive of many of the residents. I can go from Palo Alto to old growth redwoods in thirty minutes on a good day! Note that this has nothing to do with tech.

Also, rich people like to be around rich people. There are probably more billionaires in a couple of blocks of Professorville (four that I know of) than there are in the entire state of Michigan. Thats why people are in Palo Alto and not Ann Arbor.

People don't go to university to learn, they go to university to get degrees...or to be more blunt...to buy degrees.

Wrong. You trust yourself too much. A vibrant, well-documented and tested framework will likely be better than your own one-off code

If you really believe what you say, why are you using Go (or Java, or Rust or whatever) at all? Someone else wrote it...

Go doesn't allow circular dependencies so rest easy.

Why is this even a concern? We have tools to walk that graph for us, they're called compilers and linkers. A small codebase can be buggy too.

If you have success with a toolkit and it has good testing and community support, don't walk away because the graph looks weird.

Take all those frameworks and inline them directly into your main package...now your graph collapses....are you better off?

Your comment basically confirms, on a more subtle level, what the GP post is saying.

You have no factual basis for claiming these people are asserting false facts or voting based on false facts. Brexit is a vote on what the future should look like, and no one has a factual basis to predict the future.

tl;dr people you disagree with aren't fraudulent by default

I want to help this guy but I have to ask....how did the parents just "forget" to get his citizenship complete????

He is extremely abrasive, but he doesn't seem to carry grudges.

Telling someone that presentations were "stupid" doesn't seem out of line.