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Equal opportunity, not "equal justice under law". Capitalism favors those who are lucky. It's nothing to do with law. Edit: who wouldn't reject these things if they weren't benefit…

And accept inequality and luck.

I obviously don't think you haven't learned new technologies in 25+ years. It seemed like the claim to ageism was that the kiddies expect you to know the hot, new technology. Requi…

Tell me how you've survived in technology without learning new technologies!

I doubt that a lawyer, doctor, or (especially) investor could survive more than a year without constantly investing time in learning about their field.

> think you are a useless dinosaur if you don't know what the new hot thing is about. Welcome to the technology industry.

Almost every ageism post I've read on HN ignores the hundreds of thousands of others jobs that exist outside of [hot SV tech companies] (avg age at FB is 28? no way!), and also don…

Also, thank you for caring about making a great product rather than caring about making money. There seem to be fewer of you around these days. ;)

Looks great. The majority of the classes I plan to take are on MIT OCW. Are there plans to add it?

Single founders have a very high bus factor, and for any other reason that you decide not to continue supporting the product, there's some insurance for people who invest a lot of …

I've been playing around with this concept for a couple of years (never having executed) and was expecting to be disappointed but this is very thoughtfully executed. I only wish th…

I think that's understood

This is complete nonsense.

I couldn't find any details on the qualifications of the person giving feedback.

That's only about $18/hour if you're working full time.

maps.google.com does this exactly with a few extra clicks: Click "Get directions" button, click the "Add Destination" link, fill in A, B, and C then click the "Did you mean a diffe…

It's actually .com, not .org

What's awful is that the update reportedly enables JS even if you had previously disabled it, though I doubt this was intentional.

Chrome's malware warning stopped appearing in the last 5 minutes. Looks like it's fixed.

This removes a major bash painpoint for me. Wicked awesome.

This one might work then: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&#...

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