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schizekon Why I Defaulted on My Student Loans

Nobody force you to take loan.

schizekon Why I Defaulted on My Student Loans

Author finished a Ivy League, Columbia University and write for Times but refuse to pay back loan that gave him all that?? I have no words for this person.

In economy nothing disappear. If he didn't payed next generation will. Increasing cost of education is mostly because some lousy liberal arts graduates choose to cheat their way.

schizekon HippyVM goes to Y Combinator and fails

Docker, Meteor, ElasticSearch, NPM there is plenty of start-ups doing infrastructure stuff.

Market don't need fast PHP compiler look how low is adoption of HHVM. PHP is legacy codebase used for simple CMS. If someone need performance it will use Java, Node.js etc