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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.

"In turn for voicing our concern and opinions about a partner who supports Donald Trump, they got cold, stopped responding altogether afterwards, and needless to say, we were discriminated against, we felt blacklisted "

You are begging for money. Investors have all of the power in this situation. They don't really owe you anything.

"And as investors, you guys have a commitment to do right by founders like us."

Sorry, no they don't.

"We have a strong team but also, a strong set of beliefs. And we for one, do not support the bigotry and hatred that is spread by people like Trump, and the fact that Y Combinator which is supposed to be on the side of the entrepreneur and promote technology and science has taken this stance is shocking and proves that change needs to happen. We ask investors to reconsider where they place their trust."

Guilty by association is a logical fallacy. Should I then conclude that you support rapists because you support Hillary (who fought against the women Bill Clinton abused)?

"Trump is not a science supporter but altogether a vision of hatred against humanity"

Complete hyperbole. You are an example of bigotry and bias that is destroying our society. You can't stand the fact that someone supports something you don't like and want to destroy them publicly.

"This was the first time we ever attempted to be part of a program like this, and if you see our CSO and his resume, it speaks for itself"

Please. Ycombinator doesn't need you more than you need them.

"That we were subjected to discrimination"

So not responding to your ridiculous requests is now considered 'discrimination'.

"and we shouldn’t be punished for it"

You are hardly being punished for anything. Take a look at all of the college professors and professionals that are fired from their jobs for merely speaking their mind.

"The truth is we never have and never will support Trump."

I have money and I would never invest in your company.

This article has shown the world that you are unwilling to compromise. If things don't go your way, you immediately go into hyperbole, name calling, and there is absolutely no empathy for anyone on the other side. From personal experience, you seem like a complete nightmare to work with.

Discrimination didn't cause your lack of response to Ycombinator, your poor behavior did. I hope you learn something from this.

I also find it disheartening that a group that claims to understand what it's like to suffer from discrimination, paints an entire part of the population with the same brush and exhibits the same exact behavior that they claim to be against.

More discrimination will not stop discrimination.

It's because the fix is to unfairly force VCs to invest in companies for the sake of diversity.

Entrepreneurs and VCs see one color: green. If you make money or have an idea that can make money, they will invest in you regardless of the color of your skin or gender.

"For those who don't want to read the article, "What happened when I challenged the PC campus culture at NYU" really means "What happened when I tweeted a bunch of right-wing garbage and associated it with my employer, by name":"

This idea (that companies have the ultimate power over your lives) seems to change when it involves left-leaning opinions. Would you be fine if I fired anyone saying anything bad about traditional marriage?

Weed legalization seems to be really popular in the tech community. Your body in your own time, right?

How is free speech any different? It's just as representitive of your employer.

"The answer is that you're asked to take a leave of absence because you're embarrassing everyone."

Weaklings in academia can't take a differing opinion are now creating students with this same weak mindset. It's a disgrace to intellectualism..if you can even call it that anymore.

"Shed no tears though, I'm sure Professor Edgelord will do just fine in the conservative talk circuit for years to come."

You can revel in people with differing opinions getting their livelihood destroyed and their opinions silenced, but when it happens to you, I won't be shedding a tear either.

Okay, so If I decided to not hire any liberals or anyone that supported gay marriage...and got big companies on board, this would be acceptable to you? You can always change your beliefs......

I don't think you read my post. I said prejudice against an entire group of people for their beliefs.

Such as the common one I see on HN: All Trump supporters are racist or all Republicans hate anyone that is gay.

It's just as damaging to our society as racism, yet seems to be perfectly acceptable in many circles.

I think the better question is why do people think racism is wrong, but bias of an entire group of people based on their political/personal beliefs is okay.

Well, there's no real way to prove it because it's your word against his.

I believe it. I care less about what I eat when I'm sleep deprived.

They had to have known that an unlimited plan wasn't sustainable, because of the studio costs.

It sounds like they used the unlimited plan as a way to hook in new users and the cancellation was planned.

" In the process, he and others created a free operating system, GNU"

He never created Linux or the 'GNU' operating system. Linux uses the GPL/GNU license.

He created https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html

"That’s a nonfree operating system. It tramples your freedom just by being there.” Stallman explains that the operating system he helped birth can be swapped in. “I hope you will escape from Apple’s power.”

I suppose it really depends on your perspective. I just bought a brand-new TV. I don't really need to have the schematics to enjoy it.

The other side is that Stallman has tried to make open source software a law. This would mean that a software developer would be forced, by law, to release their source code.

This is considered freedom?

His ideals would make us all slaves to the big corporations, because they can make money on support, while this doesn't really scale well for a small company or single person.

I love open source, but it has slowly reduced the need to hire expensive developers and many companies can now hire students to hack on open source for much less. Why bother paying a software engineer when the engineers give out their work for free? You can just as easily pay a software mechanic and still get the job done.

Stallman doesn't see or care about this because he is insulated from it. He has a cushy job doing speaking engagements and research for various education institutions. He can pick his nose and eat his hair and still make $250,000+/year.

Money is the only true way to have true freedom, because it allows you to make your own decisions and it reduces the control others have over you. This is the case now and probably will be as long as humans are alive.

We should be empowering developers to make more money and have more control rather than less. This way, they can still make a good living with software and if they choose, release open source software.

The entire idea of the GPL also doesn't really make sense. If a company decides to use your software and not release changes, the original software is still out there for everyone to use and the original owner still has claim to it. The only thing you won't get is the changes, which aren't really yours in the first place.

"And yet they were never able to turn it into economic growth as the West did"

Is it really that much of a mystery? China has had different forms of totalitarianism over the last couple of centuries.

It's like putting a noose around the neck of economic growth and innovation.

The only reason they even saw growth is because the cost of living is still very low in many parts of the country (outside big cities like Beijing) and big businesses can utilize this plus their lax employment laws.

They now just copy our innovations (sometimes, rather poorly) and sell them to their much larger, closed market. Many of these hacking attacks we've seen in the last couple of years are done to steal corporate secrets and copy the business:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-great-brain-robbery-c...

I know a guy that is a senior engineer at an automotive company. He's originally from China and will go back in a year or so because automotive companies in China are paying Chinese engineers that have worked in the US 3X what they are getting paid here. It won't last long, however. Once they get all of these corporate secrets, engineer wages will go down.

China is slowly stealing all of our corporate secrets through hacking, having Chinese students get educated here and then taking secrets back with them, and outright theft of manufacturing plans/molds.

Women in China have all the power. Since there is such a shortage of women, only successful men with money even have a chance.

"Successful entrepreneurship is like a lottery"

I disagree with this statement. If you want a company that makes a billion dollars, your chances are very slim. I'm on my fifth company and my current one makes over six figures (a few million in revenue).

All of my friends have gone through many hardships over the last 5 years because they worked at other companies that downsized and they were let go. My career has been pretty stable with my own company.

"If it's for passion, ask them to do it as side hobby/business."

This will ensure that it stays a side-business. Most people don't really have the time to work 9-5 (and many times longer than this) and then run a company full-time. Especially if they have a significant other.

I tried many times to start a company and inevitably failed. Mostly because I couldn't really focus on it with a full-time job. If you really want to start a business, I would recommend saving 6 months to a year of your current salary and quitting. But make sure you actually have a real plan to make money. Market testing is a must.

What I've noticed is that there just aren't that many people out there that are willing to sacrifice their time or are passionate enough to stick with a business long enough for it to succeed.

Before my successful company, I tried multiple times to partner with friends that I thought would be a good fit for a business partner. They all failed within the first year. I would end up doing 99% of the work and my business partner would either do the least-possible amount of work or it would devolve into me being the manager/boss where I had to assign them work (which I really don't want to do). One person just didn't want to give up his drinking/partying time with his other friends.

There is this myth on HN that running a business/startup is glamorous and fun. Many people want to start a company because they like this glamorized idea of running a startup and think it's cool. They usually are slapped in the face with reality pretty quickly.

I never started a company for the money, it was always for the freedom. But what I've come to realize is that money is freedom. The more you have, the less control others have over your path in life.

This entire argument is ridiculous. All of the changes to the editor are released, the Wix team should not be forced to release their entire source code base.

Wordpress is such a pile of garbage, I don't know why anyone would use it anyway. I ran a few of my sites on it and I had to update plugins 3 or 4 times a week to keep up with the latest security flaws.

It does make me realize that most people that believe piracy is not theft (which, I am now going to start calling it theft and stealing in all contexts after the comments I have seen on HN regarding the GNU) only say that because they want free things. It has nothing to do with 'freedom' or principals.

It's the same principal now: you don't want to have to pay for the Wix code base and think they should release it for free.

But, it's not the first time that the tech community continues to be on the wrong side of history. I've done my part though. I warn people about many of these things and get ignored...and then use them to my advantage and make a fortune.

:-)

These frameworks are built so you can get applications finished faster. It's really personal preference that dictates which one will work for you.

So no, you aren't wrong. You just need to find the right framework (if any).

...like pretty much all charts and data used for politics. How is this news?

So copyright infringement isn't 'theft', yet violating the GNU is theft? You can't download a car....

I'm really tired of these arguments. If you release something and say that it's 'free', it's pretty disingenuous to chase after someone for not releasing their own changes.

Calling it 'theft' doesn't really make sense because nothing of value was actually stolen. The original code is still there for all to enjoy.

Most places I've worked stay away from GNU code (besides compilers, servers, and anything not used in the main product) like the plague because of people like Matt Mullenweg.

I would much rather have the BSD license, which is truly free for everyone.

UPDATE: I always thought HN was the place for intelligent discourse, yet I am always disappointed.

This is what a 'rigged' election looks like.