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I have taken cold shower almost all my life. Initially because my home was not equipped with a hot shower and later as an exercise is self control when shower became available. It may have felt better if you either adopted to it or it was not forced in the first place. One benefit which I have experienced is that outside temperature feel less harsh once you come out of the shower.

They may be because when they were growing up studying science was their ticket to wealth,respect, and power. Arguments, disagreements, and self correction are pillars of scientific minds. Autocratic society in which a small disagreement can result is you vanishing, cannot possible nurture scientific minds.

Wonderful piece of writing. This guy should write sci-fi full time.

I agree but then why salaries of top mgmt. is not decided using the same criteria.

This is not about depreciation cost alone. Normally vendor tie support cycle to depreciation cycle so you cannot get new parts or support unless you pay them heavily.

"Consultants at McK are labeled as 'conflicted' if they have served a competitor of a client in a given industry." and in couple of years consultant runs out of industries.

Well you can say that. I am a system admin in my day job and technology area I work is not really hot area in other places.

I am a registered expert and contributor and they reward me by locking me out if I do not contribute for a month. I cannot even see my own answers. With competition around I do not think they will be able to hold people hostage for long.

Well said. This also shows we yet do not understand our brain.

This is a great read.I have submitted it independent submission here. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2220912

Credit for this submission goes to saraid216's comment. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2219348

Seems like he is hiding an e from his last name :) Stephen Elope is his real name. He runs away to marry a new company every other year.

Killer tech for tropical countries where lamps are needed and flies are hated :)

This article generalizes too much. Top Indian IT giants are consulting companies and they are making a ton of money.

"Engels had asthma as a youngster and doctors told him he should not participate in sports. But he decided to overcome his ailment and ran his first marathon at 25. He said his latest feat is the result of 35 years of exercise."

quote from original WSG article. "If a Chinese child gets a B—which would never happen—there would first be a screaming, hair-tearing explosion. The devastated Chinese mother would then get dozens, maybe hundreds of practice tests and work through them with her child for as long as it takes to get the grade up to an A." Do you want to do this to your child? It may be just me but WSG article looks like a well concealed satire on Chinese/Asian parenting :)

"...you literally can't spend that much money on a house if you tried." Well this Idiot is building $2 Billion house. http://www.mwilliams.info/archive/2008/06/twobillion-dollar-...

Great explanation for noobs.

UK government does not want people coming in on Tier 1 and compete in open market; however they do not have any problems issuing Tier 2 which is intra company transfer.Only criteria is that income of employee should not be less than £40K/year. Do they want salaries to stabilize at £40K?

Isn't this called top down programming? I think most people on HN do not like top down approach.

This makes you a non player in valuation game. By having a revenue you cannot over project and hence cannot get a valuation to provide a worthy exit to ycombinator.

thanks a lot

"AHU --> CLR" Would you mind expanding these abbreviations?

thanks a lot.

What is the prerequisite for reading this book. Can I read this book effectively with basic knowledge of high school algebra and some calculus?

This UI looks very similar to MS outlook and I really it.However unlike outlook you cannot have all 3 panes vertically.On large screen ability display data into 3 vertical panes makes it more usable. are you planning to add this feature sometime in future?

something like this :) http://sivers.org/punish

you are talking like a MBA and a manager. As per your learnings people are machine so you can easily replace one malfunctioning part by another.

I am not involved in any startup but like to do my job with creative energy and scripted quite a few time saver solutions for my group. Until now all my manager were thoughtful enough to allow me but this new guy thinks that he can replace any person with any person without looking at the unique attributes of each of the person. He wants me to do the work others can do without looking at what i can do and others cannot... I am sorry but you are sounding like my manager so get a job in big company. Startup make you respect your talent and looks like you do not want to do that... Coders may be dime a dozen but believe me true developers/hackers are not...

quite an impressive resume

Probably he is expressing his opinion. I think it may not work for everyone.