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okay, tell me why. I'm just telling you my experience of seeing this first-hand many many times.

"This stupid idea that poor = lazy/bad is so entrenched in the US society (and was when I was growing up too) that it can ruin your social life from very early on"

If you aren't mentally or physically unable to do something (which is the case in a small percentage of the population), you shouldn't be poor. There are many opportunities in the US. I've been poor, had many poor friends, and now I'm doing much better.

Poor, many times, can be changed, but people aren't willing to change their lifestyles.

Many people have free time after work (if you aren't working, you have even more free time). I chose to learn a skill during that time. Many of my friends, who still aren't going anywhere in life, chose to drink, have fun, and party with their friends. I sacrificed that time (for awhile at least) for my career.

Many people also don't understand delayed gratification. They need to have everything now and as a result, suffer financially.

"least middle class so they would have better social connections later in life"

When you have more money, it becomes difficult to stay friends with people that are consistently poor. Many times because your problems, outlook on life, and hobbies change.

I've never had this problem. They've made it so easy that you only ever have to talk to someone once. The rest of the time it's all online and is automatically deposited into your bank account.

It may have been a problem because your ex-employer disputed it.

"When we allowed 20% of the population to assume ownership of 80% of the wealth, forcing everyone else to scramble for scraps"

Allowed? I suppose you mean we didn't tax them at 90% to "redistribute" it.

"the loudest complaints about "socialists" and "redistribution" seem to come from people who need it the most, but don't recognize it."

Or the people that have nothing and would rather have the government give it to them than try and earn it themselves. We do need some social nets, but if those social nets are too large, we create a system of people that feel entitled propped up by the people that are actually working. When that system starts to collapse, there are riots in the streets because there are too many people relying on it.

"The American public, IMO, needn't look much further than a mirror to see the cause of their woes."

There are many countries in Europe that are struggling just as hard (if not harder) than the US. They had all of these social nets that you speak of. What happened?

"In the mean time, piracy is certainly a valuable signal for the industry that demand exists - it's just that the price and mechanisms aren't right yet. (I'm sure the content producers feel the same way /s)"

If you can get a show in HD quality, very fast, without commercials, and at no cost..nothing will compete with it that costs money.

Content producers shouldn't have to consider pirates the competition.

At this rate, the answer will be a forced monthly fee/tax through all of the major Internet providers.

Bill gates made billions and he's donating lots of it to the third-world.

I think a better idea is to charge a flat fee for the project (you get it nailed down before working on it) and then per/hour for any additional changes.

I went to my local Office max today to see if they had any left. They were sold out.

The guy also told me they have only ever had 1 in stock.

"The hackers found and immediately posted e-mail addresses, passwords, and physical addresses of 205 O'Reilly site members paying $5 a month to hear Bill's wisdom"

It's funny how a group that claims to be so good..is nothing but evil. This is why I can no longer support them.

Exactly. If they can consistently predict the results over a year, I will be impressed.

I've seen this at companies where the boss or manager either doesn't understand the development process or just wants to make money and doesn't care. So you have situations where a feature should take 2 weeks to implement, but they want it in a week (so you need to work extra hours to make up for it).

This is one of the reasons I hate working for other people. If I'm going to be wasting my youth away for something, I'm going to be getting all or the majority of the profits.

All of the users that "liked" this article have bitcoin.. in them.

Join a group that interests you on meetup.com. I did this a couple of years ago and it helped me out tremendously.

"In fact, he says, the philosophical battle over economics, taxes, debt ceilings and defaults that are now roiling the stock market is partly rooted in an upper class "ideology of self-interest."

Are they factoring in all of the people that aren't rich that want to raise taxes exponentially on the wealthy? How about the people using our welfare systems that could easily go out and get a job?

The wealthy already pay a ton in taxes. Some may have less empathy, but I just don't buy that overall, they are less empathetic.

"They think that economic success and political outcomes, and personal outcomes, have to do with individual behavior, a good work ethic"

This is a slap in the face to everyone that does work hard and is successful.

I stopped reading here.

"I work for MegaCorp. We have developers here that are incredibly difficult to get along with and a few that are great. There seems to be this sense that the more capable and intelligent a person is the more frequently they're jerks to deal with. I haven't found this to be true. There are plenty of good devs that aren't "holier than thou" (and one of the best devs I worked with was clearly on the extroverted side, though most of them land on the introverted side of things)."

I agree with you here. I also find that the jerks, may seemingly be intelligent, but don't learn much from other people (which usually happens if you are smart+socially aware) because they think are right all the time

You need to make sure you have near 100% uptime. If someone is using this as a PoS and it's down, they will lose money. You may also need to get some sort of insurance.

guess what? You aren't going to stop me from my opinion, sorry. You sure as hell aren't stopping the mass amounts of people from down voting my above comments for merely stating my opinion on frameworks.

oh and btw, my point has pretty much been proven.

Downtown might be okay. However, if you go outside just a little bit, you are in the danger zone. This isn't speculation.

Even 8 years go it was bad. I worked downtown and could regularly hear gunshots from my office during the day.

I get offers at least once a month. I'm wondering if it's in some newbie SEO/marketing PDF that's been passed around the community.

My favorite is when they offer me $50 for a link on my blog for the lifetime of my site. That's right, not annually, for life. A couple of times I made a counter offer of $100/year and I got a pissed off response in the form of me trying to "rip them off".

Yes, when I write a web app, I don't want to be stuck with extra code that abstracts away the database into a less-efficient object/class and forces me to break the convention of the framework to write the code that I need.

I suppose it's fine when many of then newer programmers don't even know or understand what's going on underneath anyway...

It doesn't stop the hordes of programmers on HN talking about Ror and Django and Cherry pi as an alternative to PHP.

I figured they would need to move onto something new after Twitter started including pictures in tweets.

When frameworks are the popular alternative to PHP (RoR,Django,etc), it is valid.

Are we also not allowed to talk about RoR when it comes to a discussion about PHP alternatives?

I've used Django and many others and while you can do this, you end up with code that isn't very clean.

Wow, It's pretty apparent that there are a lot of young programmers here on HN. I was just stating my opinion and I got downvoted because I talked bad about your precious frameworks.

One of the reasons I like PHP is that it still lets you get to a lower level of coding. Many of the newer languages and frameworks that have become popular in the past couple of years abstract things such as database connectivity away (Django is a good example of this) and it makes it difficult to optimize queries effectively without hacking onto the framework.

Yeah, this is why you don't base your entire business on something like images for twitter.

"She couldn't afford the financial risk"

If you are under thirty and single, you can get health care for $200 or less per month, which is pretty affordable. There are also group plans for small business owners.

well, naturally, we are seeing why banks exist. Because people need a safe place to put their money.

It looks like the same pictures we saw a couple of days ago....from the original source.