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Here's a more pop-sci explanation of this form of bias from the new york times in case anyone sees these comments. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/03/upshot/a-quick...

This writer is trying to say that positive economics is flawed because of the flaws of normative economics.

It is possible to make a well-constructed argument that positive economics is deeply flawed, but this article does not make that argument.

http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/12/difference-betwee...

This is a really flawed way at looking at the market. Including tablets and smartphones in the PC market doesn't work because most people have a PC and a table and a phone.

This could really use a lot of editing. Far too much of it is whining about slow internet that doesn't reach a meaningful conclusion, but instead generalizes from his anecdote.

If anyone is reading comments before reading the article, I recommend scanning it quickly. You won't miss anything.

This will be so useful in all my new projects! I'm using this and that other one character javascript framework I remember seeing. Anyone have a link?

It seems like it's really getting killed under the load. This also isn't the first node project demo I've seen deployed that gets destroyed by a bunch of people visiting it to check it out. Anyone have some tips for deploying Node in a manner that your server won't just get destroyed? What's the point of supporting 1000's of users in say, socket.io if most people's deployment schemes allow for a max of say, 250 concurrent connections?

Any tips or explanations would be most welcome.

what the FUCK is he talking about?

120k for a GP vs 40k for a plumber.

Sources: http://www.payscale.com/research/US/People_with_Jobs_as_Phys...

http://www1.salary.com/Plumber-I-salary.html

I really expect more intelligent comments from a man as accomplished as Thiel.

>> Execution of course matters but there is also value in being first and taking the right marketing approach.

I absolutely agree with you. I think for a lot of people, including myself, however, the best marketing approach would have been to say "check this out, I did something cool, and I've open sourced it." This is what dcurtis probably should have done. He didn't do any groundbreaking rails code, and there was very little value in having a new workflow of blogging exist only on his servers. I think the value of Nate open sourcing it is much higher than if he had just built a clone and kept it to himself.

Basically, the community response supporting Nate is strong because he did something that benefits the community as a whole, where as dcurtis did something that benefited only himself and then shouted about it.

That's my (pretty myopic and polemic) take on all this.

>> EDIT: Oh, look. I have the attention of the majority of HN. Allow me to now exploit you:

Your edit is the best thing to come out of this entire ordeal. Thanks for not abusing your newfound fame :)

I totally agree with this. I thought it was a joke. I didn't think frat guys were actually learning to code and calling themselves programmers or something...

The point of this blog post is basically that it doesn't matter if you program or what, if you're a douche, you are a douche.

This is written by a man who thinks each and every paragraph he writes is worth linking to.

Are you fucking kidding me? The words "desk" and "photo" are linked to store results from this site? No thanks, this is 2012, that's not how we monetize content anymore.

Pg 43- "[REDACTED] commented that, although he does not consider Mr. Jobs to be a friend at this time, he considers Mr. Jobs to be a successful individual because he can delegate tasks to individuals."

I wonder who that woz?

Portrait! Something about landscape makes it way too difficult to hold with one hand.

Guidelines ask why is this posted. :( http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Confronting aliens in cowboys and aliens? Really? THATS the movie they pick for where ford had a role confronting aliens?

Oh, how quickly they forget.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zASTvOUGHH4/TnCuHuN64PI/AAAAAAAACc...

Very much baby steps in jazz music theory, but this will probably be helpful to some people!

I would rather do what this guy did then spend 40 years of my life trying to get people to click ads.

It sounds like he didn't enjoy his job on wall street. I wouldn't enjoy a job as a facebook developer. We all have our opinions.

Occupy Wall St. arguably didn't do much to affect Washington, or the regulations that affect the firms that protesters were blaming.

I'm not experienced in these matters, but it seems to me like a wiser alternative would be to found some kind of Tech Lobby that advocates for policies that benefit the internet in Congress and educates members of Congress about the internet.

In my opinion, the quality of content on HN has plummeted since SOPA became an internet issue.

It is reminiscent of how the Digg community stopped caring about interesting stories and instead became wrapped up in its own cycles of bullshit, RIAA, Blu-Ray, iPhone, etc.

I had to think for 30 seconds before I understood what SO was actually supposed to mean in your last sentence, as Stack Overflow didn't seem to fit in...

I guess these just don't match my personal definition of a software bug... I was expecting an unexpected result as a product of good programming. This is just "5 reasons this line of javascript shouldn't have been written" and seems to be more about UNIX permissions than code.

Posted back in march?

You jerks! Don't you dare tell me not to try it now. I saw that and thought, "Dammit I'm trying this immediately!"

It would be cool if they could put everything in SRAM.

They did it to protect jobs. Sun claimed to have to cut 3000 jobs because of the EU approval delay. The US probably was trying to rush them so the merger could go through and Sun would not go bankrupt.

It's all in the cable. Read it for yourself, and then decide if this government intervention was a good or bad thing.

Note: Above, I have not given my opinion on this. I have not said, "this is good." I have only given my speculation as to the reasons the US gov would do this based on the cable.

Saw the font size, closed the window. You have a column that is 330px wide? Make it twice that width, and increase the font size.

I just wanted to point out the obvious to any potential readers: this is just one indicator and does not reflect what is happening in all sectors of the economy. Rather, it a price chart of commercial shipping services. Useful, but definitely not the end-all be-all economic recession indicator that the author makes it out to be.

From experience, I can tell you that you will feel a lot better about what you create and you will feel a lot more confident in your code if you are creating things according to proven design patterns and not just hacking together applications from tutorials.