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by michaelochurch 12y ago
High status: Sociopath. Low status people tend to divide into three camps: delusional, apathetic, and confrontational. Low status, delusional: Clueless. Low status, apathetic: Losers. The confrontational ones either (a) learn how to play th
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
Silicon Valley wouldn't exist if those would be paid. If that's the case, then Silicon Valley doesn't deserve to exist. The only people for whom it's reasonable to expect unpaid overtime are genuine founders with real
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
It persists partially because tech industry workers are especially susceptible to class confusion. That is, the startup culture stock option lottery deludes them into thinking they are a part of the ownership class rather than the working
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
Even a place like LA or San Diego, Seattle, Portland, Austin, Chicago, etc -- you won't believe the homes, apartments, lofts, flats, condos you can get. Absolutely stunning places, with great activities and schooling. Agree. What pre
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
Surprisingly, you see that sort of issue (perhaps in a more subtle way) a lot, even in evolved libraries and languages. By "I consider NullPointerException for any reason to be a bug" I mean that, even if the program is going to c
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
The problem with NullPointerException is that it usually comes with a high error-failure distance (that is, the failure happens later than the logical error that caused it). It can be extremely hard to debug, because null is actually an o
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
I see this as a basic life skill While self-defense is a useful skill, there isn't a good way to practice actual street fighting except to actually do it. (Martial arts sparring is not the same thing.) And, in street fights, even if
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
But about 47 percent of American workers participate in profit-sharing arrangements of some sort. Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), for instance, involve around 10 million workers Most of those programs are junk, it's worth not
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
you're expected to put in more hours There are some trading houses with really terrible cultures, but there are plenty where people work 9-to-5. Possibly 9-to-7, if a new strategy is being deployed that week. The 12-hour-per-day shop
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
Trading houses accept that people are mercenary, which means it's socially acceptable to be that way. The result is that it's much harder for these companies (especially prop shops) to take advantage of their workers. VC-funded te
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
Co-ops don't expand as much as privately or publicly held firms because they maximise something approximating profit per worker whereas normal firms maximise straight profits. I think I picked up that argument from Paul Krugman. r- a
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
This is damning data, proving that the "startup revolution" of the past 20 years and of the Valley is a fraud. Of course, many of us already knew this, but it's nice to see data that proves our point. The main role of the VCs
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
The bulk of business activity in the USA has seen a decline in dynamic new formation. The decline started around 1980 and has gotten worse over the last 30 years. Income inequality seems one of those things that is "capitalistic&quot
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
I think there's a lot of value in this article (which really isn't about Haskell; but more generally about being in the top 5% of programming). I can't disagree with the idea that we should show more open-mindedness toward di
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
The other thing that got me very curious is how did a monk develop heart disease. Age and genetics. One will suffice, if not both. Plenty of people develop heart problems who eat well and keep active. Healthy living improves your odds con
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
This one, because while it has some really sharp people, it also has a lot of corporate stooges who buy into the "disruption" hype of the Bay Area and who have a complete lack of self-awareness.
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
First of all, I hate the word "techie". It's almost like a racial slur. The word makes me sick. I don't want to be lumped in the same group with this asshole: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
Good point. Unfortunately, my AngleFactory is broken, and the AngleFactoryFactory team is buried in tickets right now.
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
I've always taken these "design patterns" to be a Shibboleth of the bottom 80-ish percent of programmers. The mediocrities can't handle math. If they dig deep enough into any technical area, they get confused and insecur
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
I think Brooklyn was considered Foundry but Manhattan is its own city-state. Same with DC. "Mex-America" is a weird one (and why is the capital in the U.S.?) too. If Minnesota and Michigan are different nations, then Mexico (which
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
Ecotopia (or Cascadia) has split irrevocably. Silicon Valley is not part of it. Far Northern California (which is Oregon-like in climate and culture) might be, but that's sparsely inhabited. Silicon Valley (an emerging city state with
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
I'm waiting on this, as well.
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
First, your search is different from what it would be in the corporate theater. In the corporate world, you're either looking for mentors who are 5+ years ahead of you (i.e. better than you at what you want to do) or subordinates to of
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
This is a really elegant game. Kudos to the designer. It's quite admirable. It has a life/death property like Go: the game seems to be about recognizing which configurations are dead and avoiding them.
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
I'm honest about what I am. I don't live to screw people over, in the way that management consultants do. (They invented the stack-ranking practices that destroyed a great number of technology companies, and that are directly resp
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
I could go to MBA school, become a McKinsey-type douchebag, and join the top VC firms at high levels. I'm 40 IQ points smarter than them. But I don't. Instead, I'm studying Haskell. On a Sunday night. Including all the random
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
But people who just want a job "in the industry", whether it is journalism or academics, are going to have a bad time Don't look down on those "just want a job" people. When you don't have an income, the need
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
This result, described today in Science1, marks the gas’s transition from just above absolute zero to a few billionths of a Kelvin below absolute zero. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this mean that the gas molecules (at ne
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
Ph.D. bigotry is an artifact of the bad job market, which has just been getting worse for the past 30 years. There used to be BA-level research jobs. There still are. They're just now filled by PhDs. Basic research is pretty much gone.
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by michaelochurch 12y ago
As written, do NOT take this offer. At such a low salary, you're a founder , not an employee, and deserve to be treated like one. When you take a deal like this (low salary, low equity, because the founders have a track record of ra

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