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There's a direct English translation, as there usually is: "class" sums it up nicely.

And? Software development is labor, plain and simple. If you think you're so smart, create your own opportunities to get paid. This is called "business", and many truly great hacke…

These me-too funding programs are starting to look more and more like gambling / indentured servitude.

80% of guys have a tough time getting laid. It has nothing to do with being smart or not.

The anti-California comments at the end are surprisingly hilarious, in a sour grapes kind of way.

You've heard about Ikea, right?

The workflow between you and your accountant hasn't changed for quite a while. You still share information and work through a medium you can both understand - receipts and expense …

Suggestion: search box should search music, not people first.

Programming isn't fun. Neither is doing drugs. But when you beat the machine after 10 hours of agony and get the thing to work and dollars flow into your bank account, your brain s…

> I am not a programmer I've got some bad news for you. You're a programmer.

> understand that the process, the work, is the whole point. This is true only if you own your work. Doing it for someone else on a salary... is not the whole point. Of anything. T…

Don't worry, there are plenty of startups working on this.

I'm going to rail against the fast-paced, impersonal nature of communicating internet by posting something fast and impersonal on the internet!

I think I would rather just read the finished essay.

> Makes me shudder just to think about the legal expense. Good thing there are countless software engineers and mathematicians working on new ways of indexing and retrieving this k…

> how did you break out of this (and deal with the opinions of parents / culture you were raised in) to pursue your startups? I broke out of this by not giving a flying fuck what m…

> writing applications which are multi-threaded Well that's your problem right there.

> Cisco is entering the market That means they won't be making an offer.

> If it has been more than 5 years and the company has not become profitable, quit. Take your losses. Invest your experience and time in another company. Even better, start your ow…

As much as I hate to admit it, my first programming job included a lot of Tcl, and I think learning it taught me how to program correctly, or at least in a highly maintainable fash…

Someone is going to put this onto a keychain with a GPS chip and become a rich man.

He's a BS artist.

> I couldn't do anything without having immediate karmic effects on people I knew who lived hundreds of miles away Oh, christ. Maybe you should go back on the pills, buddy.

> oh cripes can we just kill these stupid stereotypes already? I mean, what do you expect from a thread where a guy gets upmodded for claiming that he was able to tell the future w…