mtogo

That's like, way insightful, like, man. Pass the J?

Your name is very relevant to your post :).

And at least 4 or 5 people care enough about it to respond to me, so i think your anger is a bit unfounded.

I'm not telling you how to live your life. Please, feel free to take ridiculous risks. Give up all your worldly possessions and move to the SF bay area. Start boring web 2.0 apps. Do a startup or whatever. Go to burning man. I'll be over here enjoying my nice, stable life.

He's right-- if you're about to die, there are no limitations. You can, for example, cook meth with one of your former students.

The problem is when you're not about to die. Then embarrassment and failure are real issues. You do have something to lose-- your life! Your friends, your house, your possessions, your family, so many things to lose.

If you're going to lose it all anyway, taking risks is not a big deal. If you're 20 something and have your whole life ahead of you, taking risks is a really big deal.

Rest in peace jobs, you will be missed.

> I'm suprised that party which seeks to seriously impair (if not completely blow) the software industry gets so much applause here.

Yeah, you may want to explain exactly how. To me it seems like the pirate party's values are right in line with your average software developer's values.

Just because you don't agree with a political party's agenda does not mean news about that party isn't HN material.

Lua, really? Could you provide some examples?

Subjective. I use Firefox because it's a more stable, modern, and featureful browser than Chromium in my opinion. That doesn't make one of us more "on the edge" than the other.

You're basically saying that since one community prefers strawberry ice cream to chocolate, they're more modern somehow.

In BB's defense, GH's issue system is horribly underpowered too.

I way overpay for my phone plan. I pay for it because i have to, not because the pricing is fair.

If you charge $400 to update your client's web site, you're just price gouging because they don't know any better. Pathetic.