ConradHex

I didn't vote in 2000, because it was too much trouble. I spent the next four years regretting it, and 2004 rolled around and I had another chance. Somehow I wasn't able to register in time, and missed it, and spent another 4 years feeling bad.

This time I registered plenty early, and voted early, too. Now no matter what happens, I can feel good about doing my part for the next four years. I'd say that was time well spent.

I don't think it ignores usability at all; it seems very focused on it.

Does a "VW short squeeze" have anything to do with clowns?

That's always been true before, but I think if you look closely you'll realize that this time it's all different.

When people complain that work-life balance is out of whack, I don't think that means you need to go to the other extreme, and let everyone leave work at two in the afternoon to go to the movies.

Also, the "private domains" feature is reasonably priced on namecheap. On godaddy, it just isn't.

I'm not sure that "across-the-board" means the same percentage for everyone. It could just mean everyone's pay gets cut.

But I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that in a company where the CEO is overpaid, he's not going to take a real big pay cut voluntarily.

(#1) I'm not sure age discrimination works that way, does it? It's discrimination to not hire someone you think is too old, but what about too young?

While it looks silly now to buy a house with no equity (nothing down), it didn't seem so silly a few years ago. If you bought during the boom there was a good chance you would have a lot of equity in a couple years...

And a mortgage broker taking a hefty fee.

It depends on where you live, among other things. In some states creditors can garnish your wages. Other places they can't, but they can come after your bank accounts.

I'm not sure about coming after your startup. It seems unlikely to me, but I'm the wrong guy to ask.

There are plenty of people who can give harsh criticism, but can't take it. In fact, probably the majority of people are like that.

Sorry, what's the D in DLOC?

Doesn't this belong on the bacon subreddit?

(Looks around.)

Oh, wait...

From what I've observed, part of being a founder and CEO is having a huge amount of confidence in yourself. I think erring on the side of overconfidence is much better than the other direction.

People who are really successful in these roles seem to be completely unafraid in business situations where a lot of fear would probably be warranted.

And there are always lots of people standing by and ready to offer up plenty criticism...

What kind of ring did you give? :)

How big a sacrifice is this? In order for capital gains to get taxed there have to be capital gains in the first place. That look like a long shot in the short to medium term.

Yeah, totally. I hate to be cynical, but #6 seems bogus.

>We just need to buckle down, be cheap, creative and survive. Get to revenues quickly.

I think that's what the article is saying.

It can be intentional if the right side is a function call.

But something like:

if (errno = 0) { blah(); }

is almost certainly a bug.

Is anyone getting depressed by all this? I'm starting to feel physically sick whenever I read about the economy. I think maybe I need to stop reading the news for a while. I felt the same way after 9/11.

How about just getting them to buy you out for cash?

I can't help but think if they are this flaky, the chance of success is minimal.

Wow. Party like it's 1999.

I take it you aren't a homeowner, then?

File under "what could go wrong?"

Very interesting, but the timing is a little awkward. The current disaster in the banking sector doesn't really speak to the brilliance of an unregulated free market, does it? (Or at least, there wasn't much regulation when the banks took greedy, foolish risks, but now that it's all gone south, guess what? Time for government intervention, by golly!)

The "..." above had some important bits in it. My point was, how much of the speedup came from switching to C, and how much came from all the other stuff he did (much of which could also be done in Python).

Switching from a scripting language to C doesn't mean an automatic huge speed boost. It depends where your time is being spent.

Congrats on your big speedup; successful optimization like that is always a rush.

I wonder what the result would be if you did everything you describe, but wrote the code that's now in C, in Python instead. I suspect the speed would be very similar. (I like C, for what it's worth.)

>The unix text utilities were written in the 60's and 70's when computers were 33mhz and had 5MB of ram.

I'm not positive (I was born in the 70s), but I'm pretty sure they had less RAM and speed than this.

For a more diverse view: http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/spore?q=spore