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I've read to my kid since forever, my wife as well. We have a library that rivals most school's and we read to him 2-3 books (at least) a day. He is 3.5 years old and can't read at…

Most likely, when HN started, you had the YC groups and a few others. This meant Ivy League educated ($$$$) or related to VC/Investors ($$$$). Now you hear comments from plumbers, …

Just as a counter point, for me was the opposite. Skipping breakfast was what made me be more focused. I remember since I was a kid, I hated eating breakfast (no matter which type:…

Well, there is the fact that is US (and other) corporations that sell products in the US market, but are able to skirt US rules by offloading those costs to other countries without…

Different approach then, have you tried having one or two beers (wine/scotch whatever) before? Not enough to get drunk, but enough for some of that paralysis by analysis to fade?

I enjoyed 'How to talk to anyone' - http://www.amazon.com/How-Talk-Anyone-Success-Relationships/... for general advice. There is also Dale Carnegie's 'How to win friends and influe…

One one hand, I'm a bit worried as I know various folks that are dependent on the oil industry and this will probably mean more layoffs/companies closing, on the other hand, I'm re…

Yes. That was the point of the grandfather post. That on top of that you even have employers contributions. If you add all of that you will get a value that often reaches 50-60%. I…

Damn, never thought 50k was that good for UK to be honest. Always thought it was an ok one. But even using 26.5k (average), we are at close to 30% on taxes on income alone) http://…

Sorry, can you explain the difference? When I was in the UK that was basically what I paid and never got anything back.

If you are in the UK, 50k a year (above average but honestly, if even remotely close to London, not that much) will bring you a tax bill of around 38% (19k) if you consider employe…

FUCKING SPOILER ALERT next time

Yeah, I think that may be the main difference from folks that feel disconnected when they are off FB. I have relationships with individuals (or sometimes couples), but never with '…

No problems to be honest. I use email/phone if I want to do something with someone (mostly phone). There may be events like a house warming party that only gets posted to FB, but s…

I have no twitter, no fb, no reddit, no g+, Github, and my account here is a throwaway which I regularly abandon and create a new one. I was never asked for any of this (well, exce…

That bit about Spain just made me realize something: - Spanish banks lent to overpriced real estate: The spanish people got austerity with the Spanish bank bailouts - The German/fr…

The main problem is that we don't know a lot about what will happen to kids that grow in this kind of environment (video games, indoors, 24 hour cartoons, etc). From anecdotal expe…

Actually, spend time with your kids every day. Or your special one. Or kitesurfing. Or playing pool. Or just learn about chess and play folks in the park. Do other things and let y…

yeah, but when he says something so stupid he should be called on it, just because it is pg doesn't mean he holds the absolute truth

No, I mean stupid shit for people that think looking at a GitHub page is all they need to know about a developer. I'm happy folks work on Open Source software and Github has helped…

* 20+ years of development experience 15 of those professionally * published author of various books * worked in systems that most startups would shit their pants with the requirem…

ok, since this is posted here every freaking time there is an article about dieting in HN, let me stress this out: A Ketogenic diet (per the actual medical definition and not from …

Just avoid HN for a week or so while WWDC is on. It is always like this

If you work with a good remote team, they usually don't make you work on 9-5 kind of schedule. Sure they ask for some overlap, but it does allow you to take a Tuesday morning and g…

Yes, because Clojure and Go used soooooo much more than F#, Scala and Lua (among others). Rails was nice when it came out, other languages/frameworks caught up. NodeJS non-blocking…