jackdied

33 + BS Computer Engineering

"worse in the later parts?" The message arc is "the capitalists are right, so let's try communism instead." Do yourself a favor - grab a copy of "The Road to Serfdom" and spend less time on the internets.

Uhh, dude? Wrong forum. You aren't helping your cause by spamming here.

[FWIW I'm an Austrian too, but the hyperbolic video title "Corrupt Banking System - Cartels Robbing the Public" makes the PBS-like history of banking look frightening.]

EDIT (after watching all 50 minutes). Holy Fscking Stuff: about half way through it changes from an explanation and critique of fractional reserve banking into a Marxist rant about historical inevitability and sustainable development.

A good place to start is "The ArsTechnica Cookbook of Bachelor Chow" released a few years ago. Recipes submitted by forum members.

http://ars.flyingember.com/

This doesn't strike me as a "nibble" but as a total renogotiation at the last minute but with the old deal as a price ceiling. The company was dealing in bad faith the entire time. They called for a close of new issues knowing that they were about to open new ones - but only for themselves. They had apparently done the same things many times to other people in the past.

You can't trust people who treat every interaction as a one-time play of the Prisoner's dilemma. A long negotiation is playing the game many times. If the other guy plays "screw" repeatedly your only option is to play it back or quit playing. (An aside: I once worked for a CEO who was an ex-DEA prosecutor. His entire experience was dealing with criminals once and this mapped very poorly to dealing with employees. I quit.)

For a startup quickbooks is enough. In my last venture the other founder's father was a retired CPA and did our books with quickbooks (gratis!). I would qualify that as an endorsement because if a CPA thinks it is good enough it probably is.

Summer YCombinator teams take note: Mass is also a right-to-rent state. If you don't have a formal, set-term lease (a verbal contract, month-to-month, or expired lease) both the tenant and landlord can call it quits with a 30 day notice with no reason required. Very handy if you ask me. If you want a formal lease you can find one but if you and the landlord are OK with a looser arrangement that is OK too.

Agreed, a week for basic literacy and years for mastery. Based on my own experience I'd say it takes two years of using a language every day and following news groups to be able to write it idiomatically. Every year after that helps you get stuff done (knowledge of tool chains, packages, and the dustiest corners of the language) but the returns are diminishing.

Code from those early days of basic literacy are the thoughest to look back on. "Hey, why does this perl code look like it is trying to be C++?"

Avail 1 br close to Davis (10 min walk). $700/mo. Must be willing to endure heckling if project is not python based. Must be williing to endure stories of how I couldn't do Y-combinator because of pending python book regardless. Dogs allowed but only if they are bigger than a cat. No cats,

Less flippant: Davis is a nice place to be. Take a look at a map though. There is good space available in Arlington which is one T-stop down from Davis (Alewife station) and it isn't hard to find something closer to the T for the same money (worst case scenario walking home from Davis at 2am - 20 minutes). Plus if you are in walking distance of Alewife you are in walking distance of one of the few bowling alleys in MA (I don't count candlepin).