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Learning Japanese for career prospects seems to me like a terribly short-sighted thing to do. Japan is in decline, with a shrinking and aging population and Marshall plan chips cas…

Grow a spine and stop working if payment is late, even by one day.

Yet another reason to run your own company.

Blah blah, stealth startup, blah blah, social media, blah blah we've solved the problem of advertising being nearly impossible to monetize, blah blah, equity, we know everyone in t…

$300 jeans are a signal of status, not taste. $100 jeans are a signal of taste.

Financial data is news. The most lucrative kind, it seems.

If you can't focus on it, it must not really be that important. Quit your job and make it your means of survival. If you're a student, focus on your schoolwork instead. If this IS …

Might want to add that I pay myself about 50 grand a year beyond business expenses (which admittedly covers my "luxuries" - mostly my auto lease and eating out). Without leveraged …

It's too bad toro is just so god damned delicious.

> One guy goes to work straight out of college, saves strategically, quits and starts his own SAP consultancy in 5 years, and is worth a few million by age 30. I guess this is me. …

It's too bad toro is just so god damned delicious.

> The OS would just run web apps directly You know, that's basically what Microsoft tried to do with internet explorer, but they ran up against such vehement opposition I'm pretty …

> programmer salaries in the 100-150k range is the norm This is the norm outside of Wall St as well, for anyone who has actual talent and/or experience and isn't a spineless pushov…

There's always some gearhead out there eager to pounce on every little inaccuracy in order to impress everyone with their deep knowledge of automobiles, isn't there?

Programmers (or software engineers, if you like) almost never ask / negotiate what they're really worth. I don't see how it would be any different in finance.

> luxury version of the Corolla That's called a Lexus IS250.

Neither of these guys have an MBA, why in the world did they do this at a b-school?

Sure. Get into computers/UNIX/Linux when you're 13. Start working at startups when you're 15 as a junior sysadmin/scripter. Continue doing contract work through college. Become an …

Right. Well, I'm real sorry you decided to get married early and have children, but don't take it out on those of us who know what's really going on in this world.

My sense of self-esteem is tied to who I allow to take exploit me. Which is really just a proxy for wealth.

> or, the reader feels a sense of cognitive dissonance, and starts to analyze the statement in the context of their core values. This is a good way of looking at it - it's a form o…

> That's a cruel way to look at it. I'm not trying to be cruel, I'm reminding him that his (salaried) labor is making someone else wealthy. For those of us who have well developed …

That's right, one of the first steps to becoming a ruthless sociopath is to align your interests with the right people. IT could learn a few things from the pro sports/entertainmen…

Most of the time, yeah. The margins are massive. Most developers are terrible negotiators who roll over for $40-75/hour (and think they are getting a great deal), when recruiters a…

> but full-time "normal" employment works for me Never forget that someone else's ambition is what allows for your relative stability.