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My first job was at a tech company with a union. Boeing.

It was ridiculously bad. I've never worked with less talented people. One of my coworkers did nothing, at all, for 2 years. But with 17 years of experience, he couldn't be fired.

I carried the team, but they couldn't pay me what I was worth or promote me. I left as soon as I could.

Burry is a hedge fund manager. The most important part of his job is to scare people away from the S&P and entice them to put money into his fund.

It's generally a mistake to trust the financial advice of any hedge fund manager, and they usually provide advice that makes the S&P seem like a bad bet.

Anyone in the country who buys gas benefits from lower gas prices. That includes a lot of poor people.

My mom lives in upstate New York, in a low income area. People there are very negatively impacted by the increase gas prices right now.

Not a proof. But a useful anecdote.

No one is doing large scales studies of how many people meet their partner on FB, so anecdote is all we have for that.

Most of the criticisms are also anecdotes, but you seem fine with those.

The amazing thing here is that rats are intelligent enough to learn to drive, albeit a simple vehicle. That alone is newsworthy, without the experiment on stress reduction.

It's not "literally impossible". The socialized healthcare system could be corrupt, poorly run, or have other serious problems.

You don't understand correctly. That's not even remotely what the article said.

This article significantly misconstrues Buffets investment style. He does invest for value. But he doesn't even think whether a stock has "bottomed in the market price". Predicting when a stock has "bottomed" is not possible as it's dependent on the whims of an irrational market.

The first half of this statement is correct and the second half is completely wrong: "He only buys when he's sure that an asset is undervalued and is likely to have bottomed in market price."

This is beautiful. Well done. This is the first comment I've made in a year - it's that cool looking.

This is very useful, and to call it disappointing is rude to the creator of the tool. Why would you say something so negative just because it's not perfect? This is the problem with Hacker News these days - people can't wait to say something nasty.

Is Stacker a proprietary 37 Signals thing? It doesn't seem to pop up after several search attempts.

Nope, fast fuzzy search is closer to find than grep since it looks for files. But it requires less keystrokes and precision, allow you to be lazier. It's a much more fluid experience.

I still use grep a lot while using ST2, but I use it for other purposes.

The number of lines of codes, in this case, speaks to the amount of features in the framework. Rails is harder to fully understand than Sinatra because there are many, many more features, and it's possible for a beginner to get lost in, or confused by, all those features.

Steve Jobs had an extremely rare form of pancreatic cancer that has a very good 5-yr survival rate if caught and treated early. The article is likely accurate.

Just like all things, both nature and nurture are strong factors. Certainly genetics play a factor in IQ, just as they do with other personality traits such as extroversion, or physical traits, such as height. Set in stone would be a huge exaggeration of genetic causation, but people will have certain propensities from birth.

I was going to say that Firefox's lack of innovation and quality in the last couple of years, as compared to Chrome, could be due to lack of funding. But it turns out their revenue is well over $100 million annually, which should be enough to fix bugs. http://goo.gl/g5Upc

Still a good browser, but there's no question they've lost quite a bit of mojo.

Wow, indistinguishable from java. Statically typed and uses generics. Are you kidding me.

Dear Google: seriously? :(

I'm glad to see an outstandingly helpful member of the rails community earn income from what has been a mostly altruistic task that must take a lot of time every week.

What are you talking about? The cost is shown in several areas of the page, and "pro" usually means the pay version.

Not true. If you have investors and two cofounders, both cofounders will have less than 50% even with an even split. And a cofounder coming on after a lot of work has been done doesn't deserve a full equity split.

I know Joe personally and he is not condescending or an asshole. He's an extremely nice, personable guy who happens to have done some amazing things that have changed the web (like start FireFox for instance).

Perhaps you should think a little before insulting someone you don't know based on half a sentence they wrote.

About 80%. Perhaps we're more vigorous with resume screening. Over the last 4 years of interviewing, I've become very good at resume screening.

Rewriting the spec for a feature takes a lot less time than rewriting the code.

Code completion, syntax validation, and built-in API documentation are useful features. To say they're things that only beginners or bad programmers use is absurd. I have much better things to do with my time than memorize the exact name and parameter order of every method in an API.

I primarily use Vim as my IDE, so I'm not saying I prefer Eclipse or other IDEs. But I don't pretend that Vim is perfect and using an IDE is a sign of inability.

Regardless of possible testing or analysis concerns, it's pretty clear that Safari 5 has a higher error rate than Safari 4 or 3. Safari is the only browser to go down in quality over time. This appears to be further evidence that Apple is putting less resources towards Mac software in favor of supporting ios devices. Fairly concerning for all of us Mac users.

It's a pretty big oversight that the author didn't include or link to the actual script.

This is the unfortunate issue with CoffeScript thuogh; you can't see it in the page, or copy it, because coffescript is compiled into JavaScript before the page is rendered. This is one of the main impediments to adoption. It's easy to learn javascript by looking at examples, but you have to dig through open source software for examples of CoffeeScript.