I agree: upper class isn't about wealth. So much of it is about culture (in the sense that culture breeds character traits). And the ambition to obtain wealth in the middle class breeds character traits that impose a barrier for entering the upper class.
(1) Part of it is about choosing whom you work with. Be careful about choosing a job that might have fun work, but is with repressed people. (2) If they are ignoring you in a meeting, there is a good chance that they have their self-image caught up in the conversation, and don't want to back down, and are getting emotional. The emotion behind rationality is humility.
Our interview process tries to filter out people that can't collaborate.
They should have taken the opportunity to make it rear-wheel drive (or at least all-wheel drive). Mercedes generally cares about driving fun, given how so much of their line up is rear (or all-wheel) drive. Too bad it was left front-wheel drive.
The people adjusting the hiring process are those that passed it. It is a filtering system that picks out a particular type of person and reinforces it. I find it hard to believe that it will change in any way that adjusts the filtering system. People at Google might experiment, but it will be within the orthodoxies, e.g., choosing between hybrid or gasoline vehicles, rather than considering mass transit.
When is the last time that you have read a TOS? You are shifting blame to the user, and it should not rest there. This is bad UI, and laziness. Meetup's TOS reads like a boiler-plate legal document; no one will read it.
Self abasement is still a humblebrag, and thus can't remedy arrogance.
I don't understand this application of self-abasement to the case of rich people talking about the days when they were poor. If it is self abasement, then that implies that being poor is some type of wrong. But it clearly isn't, particularly when at the start of a journey.
I agree, the chairs are nice. But don't use them as the solution to back problems. Back problems need to be solved through muscle maintenance, etc. Once back problems are eliminated, you should be able to sit comfortably in any chair.
VCs have a hit rate of 1 or 2 percent in choosing successful startups. An employee, in contrast, has an even smaller chance to choose well, to get rich via an exit. It just doesn't make sense to join startups to get rich. You do it for the fun, the sense of adventure, the chance to make risky products, the responsibility, the level of engagement, and particularly meritocracy. Founders, on the other hand, have a better chance of gaining money and prestige, even from a minor exit.
If you want flourishing employees, or want to flourish as an employee, then you need opportunity to learn and grow at work. Everyone needs a mentor, including the members of the executive staff. You can survive a little while running off experience, but that should not be an ingredient in a long-term culture.
I hear you. While living at my prior location, I was always integrating plausible deniability into my business plans and their initial implementations, besides keeping my work super secret. Now I don't worry about the secrecy, and feel more relaxed about deniability. (Not that I've been doing anything seriously since I moved here --- I like my team, and I would like to accomplish big things with them.)
California has a nice law that says that the employee owns IP created on his own time, unrelated to work, etc. This is a reason I moved to CA: the state I was in lacked such a law, and all the tech companies had contracts that failed the sex tape test. I suspect that for a place to flourish like Silicon Valley, it needs a law that protects self bootstrapping startups.
Being a proposition, does the legislature have any responsibility involved in the unfairness of this retroactive tax? Isn't the responsibility of a proposition in the hands of the voters, thus making it really important for voters to do their research? The blog post should be laying the blame on us voters.
Silicon Valley has so many tiger moms. Yet I bet that the Americans who succeed here, on any measure of success including just plain fun, were raised in America's lax educational system. I'd be surprised if anyone showed a correlation between standardized test scores and life success; in fact, I'd be surprised if people actually tried to look for such a correlation, instead of worrying that it is an important indicator.
Why do people put the TL;DR summary at the bottom? If the content is too long, and I didn't read it, then I'm not going to see a summary at the bottom. Abstracts, introductions, executive summaries, etc., go at the top. You don't even have to call it one of those: the goal of good writing is to engage people before they move onwards. I guess that locating it at the bottom is equivalent to adding a conclusion, and I'll grant that some people skim to the conclusion, rather than use the abstract/intro/exec-summary.
The article primed us for a bitch fest. I came to the comments expecting it. So in this one case, for the therapeutic effects that come from getting shit off your chest, I expected and overlooked the belittling and pretension; maybe others did too. I think that one's perception of quiet is affective --- quiet is relative, and at some point you'll just hear your heart beat, and so there is something else at play here to make everyone so angry about noise --- and these reactions to noise show a degree of misanthropy, which is confirmed by the comments.
Make it happen! You'll be buying back your time, which is the most valuable thing you have. I wish that I'd done this when I was young and single. Now I have a family, and am the only income earner, so I have to work 40 hours (for now). A friend of mine works part time, and spends the rest of the time in discovering and finding himself. I've been having to do this while raising my family, so that I don't screw them up. Full-time work can easily become an obsessive-compulsive escape from finding oneself. But work isn't what makes us happy in life (it is part of it, but not all of it).
Python, like all dynamically typed languages, has no readability once you start using multiple modules. Static types are important for declaring interfaces between components. I have pretty much written off Python, particularly now that Go exists. I've wasted too many hours tracing down data types in complicated Python programs, usually resorting to printing out the types at runtime to decode them. The problem with Python: it is great for simple programs, where the effort to writing the simple program is much less than the comparable program in C/C++/Java; but simple programs often grow into complicated programs, and then the effort of maintaining Python far exceeds the effort to maintain C/C++/Java. Go, on the other hand, is pretty nice for writing a simple program, and can then scale into a complicated program.
This is probably off topic, but it makes an interesting contrast: in Afganistan and Pakistan, where the Bill of Rights doesn't restrict the U.S. gov, trying to peacefully express disagreement with the U.S. government's policies gets you drone bombed.
What is your point? If we want a balanced view of the world, and most news sources push government propaganda (including NY Times, Washington Post, etc., which are like press agents for the executive branch), then we need to combine multiple vectors of propaganda to discern some truth.
My subconscious did. I didn't mean to imply that HN lacks group think --- I just don't want to see it in the submission summary, and HN's structure prevents that to some degree.
I stopped reading /. long ago due to the embellished story descriptions tacked onto the submissions. They are very judgemental, trollish, and became too trite for me to read any longer. As others here have mentioned, /. has some serious groupthink, and it is visible via the predictable submission summaries.
There seems to be a value judgement here: that curvy and uniquely shaped streets are superior in some way. This can be decided with objective evidence: look at how city districts flourish, and see whether it is related to the shape of the city blocks.
Right, Apple bought P.A. Semi, and assuming that those guys stuck around after Apple switched from PowerPC to Intel, Apple has a proven CPU devel team.
Statwing is doing it right: it is super easy to navigate to their home page from the blog, by clicking on their prominent logo, which brings you directly to their main page.