chinese_dan

Yes, when you think it will help your side, you want to abolish it.

I also had the exact same problem. Long hours, no appreciation, and I didn't have a very good personal life.

I started my own company and all of those problems went away. At first there was a lot of sacrifice, but once the business is stable, you can pretty much figure out the hours you need to work.

Most employers aren't going to care if you are seeing your friends and family. This isn't their responsibility.

If you can't handle a certain job because of the hours, it might be time to change careers. Some jobs will have long hours, no matter where you work.

If Hillary wins, Wikileaks will be expunged from history and she will pardon herself.

I have many friends that voted Sanders and now are voting (and fully supporting) Hillary. I have no idea why you would vote for someone that destroyed your original choice through collusion and corruption.

One of the big problems with higher taxes on the rich is that it can create a situation where over 50% of the tax revenue (and sometimes more than this) comes from a handful of wealthy individuals and businesses.

When they leave or there is a downturn in the economy in their industry, there is a massive drop in tax income and the state suffers.

It also puts the wealthy into a much bigger position of power because they can now demand favors in return.

Ikea, a Swedish company, barely pays any Swedish taxes and moved their HQ to the Netherlands. Although the government knows they are getting around the tax laws, they won't do anything about it because a large portion of the Swedish economy (IE: jobs) is reliant on them.

It would be much more beneficial to society if taxes were more evenly distributed, so the majority of the money isn't coming from any one source.

California isn't prospering because of big government, it's prospering in spite of it. If it had a smaller government with less regulations, we would probably see even more prosperity and jobs.

"is a two-pronged attempt to boost growth through more regulation and, yes, higher taxes. It is already winning and already spreading."

Most business owners I know in California are leaving to other states because of both regulations and higher taxes. Regulations have created a situation where housing costs are exploding and $150,000/year is considered barely making it.

The middle class is slowly being squeezed and we will soon have only the very rich and the poor. I don't really want the entire United States in the same situation.

Okay, then they will clean and maintain the robots. Those were just simple examples.

The government doesn't create wealth or prosperity and even if robots replaced the majority of jobs, the money to run and maintain the robots would have to come from somewhere.

Billionaires like Musk love the idea of basic income because it puts him in charge (he will never have to get basic income) and makes slaves out of the rest of us (if your only income comes from the government, they get to make most of your life decisions for you).

It's really just communism re-packaged when you think about it. A system where there are really only a couple of people with all of the power (IE: Musk) and they get to set all of the rules for the rest of us.

Many people from the communism days of Soviet Russia loved their life because they didn't actually have to worry about where their next dollar came from and jobs were assigned automatically.

Before I met my life (not online), I used to get lots of dates online.

It's all about marketing. I knew there were 100s of other guys trying to get their attention, so I would use catchy subject lines and actually show them that I read their profile and was interested in knowing more about them (which I was).

It worked the majority of the time.

I used the same tactic when I wanted to get a job too. It also worked just as well.

The government will never just give you money, like many people seem to want. We would quickly run out of productive people and the economy would collapse soon thereafter.

We may, however, have government-assigned job programs. The people that want to sit on their ass and play video games all day would have to dig ditches, work on construction sites, and pick up garbage to receive a paycheck.

"With that alone, you can independently test an infinite amount of pet projects until one takes off."

I have three successful companies out of many attempts. Creating a bunch of small projects is how I failed. I succeeded when I focused on one project and made it into a success.

"Most pet projects go nowhere. That's because their owners don't treat them like legitimate products:"

This is contrary to the entire point of the article. Pet projects will go nowhere because they aren't products.

If you actually want to make money, treat it like a business from the beginning. If you don't, everything else in your life will take precedence over it and your project will stay a project forever.

The mistake I see is creating the business model last. With all of my new projects, I figure out the method of marketing and the business model first and build a project around it.

Why even bother saying pledge to 'vote'. Instead, say pledge to vote for Hillary.

Well, I'm assuming you're young and naive, so I will give you some slack. You will look back on the article you wrote in a couple of years and want it buried due to embarrassment (just thinking about it now is pretty cringe inducing for me as I'm typing this).

Mixing business with politics is a mistake and will severely limit your future chances at getting a serious investor. Not to mention your intolerant and abrasive attitude pushes most people away.

This may work in a forum like HN or Reddit where you can downvote someone and make them disappear. But in the actual world, you need to work together with people that you absolutely disagree with politically.

I think you are also mistaken about the power-dynamic. You need to give them a good reason to invest in your company and they really don't owe you any explanation...and accusing them of discrimination? It's the kind of libel that goes on every day on social media and is the essence of what's wrong with our society today.

Neat code isn't supposed to improve web app performance, it's supposed to reduce the amount of development time it takes to complete a project.

Most large companies don't really care about actual code performance, which is why bloated frameworks are becoming popular. With AWS, startups don't care that much either. You can always just throw some more hardware at it.

It also makes it easier (and cheaper) to find developers because framework development is more consistent and you don't have to worry about a few developers holding your product hostage because the entire application is written spaghetti code (I've seen this).

Frameworks are nice for businesses, but cheapen the industry and will reduce developer wages overall due to the oversupply of novice developers being able to meet the demand.

"You see the Node.js philosophy is to take the worst fucking language ever designed and put it on the server."

My theory is that there are many front-end designers that only know html, javascript, and css, and suggested javascript on the back-end, because they don't know any other language.

I've been a part of many of the javascript framework communities like Ember.js over the years and it's filled with designers, not developers.

But it also depends on your optimizations. If you are a small company, you want to focus on having a small footprint because server space costs more to you.

Large companies don't care about server space costs, because it's negligible compared to the cost of a developer salary and benefits. So, they would rather use a large and bloated framework that helps with productivity because less lines of code need to be written.

I've worked at a few large corporations that didn't get that much traffic. They all used enterprisey, inefficient, and bloated frameworks. Nobody really noticed because they could just throw some more hardware at it and the traffic to the site was fairly low.