chiffonade's comments

Journalists are paid to promote and spin, not to get things right.

I'm guessing a zombie'd process won't respond either. Which is good if you are checking for validity of a process and not just the mere presence of a pid in the process list.

> If someone is willing to buy your equity it's as good as cash.

Which means it isn't cash.

For fuck's sake, equity is not cash, stop using and thinking about it like cash.

And what kind of landlord would even go for this? Mortgages can't be paid in equity, either.

Because part of being in school is being around other people.

Plus you need all the right software.

So... he concludes that CPU bound tasks are CPU bound, and that parallelizing compilation (technically it would be the dispatch of compilation) is better?

Every time I read this guy I fail to get what his allure to developers is.

> suffered major destruction and were rebuilt after the invention of the car.

Really? Pretty much every single major city with 10M or more inhabitants in China (of which there are dozens, if not hundreds) was destroyed in WW2 and rebuilt after. There was no Marshall plan for this, which is why you probably had no idea. The US was not interested in helping communists in China or the USSR rebuild after WW2.

And even if a city wasn't destroyed, it was rebuilt just for the sheer hell of it 2 or 3 times in a row during the post-war period. Chinese cities have pretty much been being rebuilt continuously since 1950. Anyone who's ever gone would know this, which you obviously haven't.

So what exactly is your point, other than you didn't learn anything about China during your US or European history classes in high school?

You have to fail 3 or 4 times before you learn what to look for in a partner.

Startups are difficult.

> but later people start to get tired of it.

I assure you this is not the case in Los Angeles, Tokyo, Berlin, anywhere that car culture is the culture.

Once a place grows up with car culture, it very rarely loses it. That's the point of the article.

> "Print This Page". Cute. I am so not clicking through half a dozen pages on this slow-loading iPhone.

Clicking six times on an iPhone is way easier than typing that long-winded sentence with full punctuation and capitalization on an iPhone, wouldn't you say?

The only commercial maglev running right now is in China, not Japan.

Were there American airbases in Russia, or China?

That architecture diagram makes no sense.

> Of course, he himself uses a VPN to dial out.

Sounds like class warfare. Same shit, different country.

> It always makes me wonder why.

This doesn't make me wonder at all.

The US and China were the two biggest allies in World War 2, became economically unified during the cold war to defeat the Soviet Union (remember the Soviet Union?), and now are the two biggest economic powers in the world. Don't look at official GDP figures, they're meaningless. Look at influence, manufacturing/logistical and financial power centers, and purchasing power parity.

After all, what is China but a United Provinces of Asia? You think 1.3B people are naturally part of the same country/culture/creed/flag? No fucking way, to think otherwise is racist ignorance.

Japan is quickly being usurped by Korea as well. Once the re-unification of Korea happens and there is a large source of inexpensive labor from the North for the developed economy in the South to employ, Japan will start its relative decline. They've already started to use Chinese manufacturing to remain competitive and leverage what's left of their engineering/design head-start given to them by the Marshall plan and previous Imperialist mindset.

The big picture, folks. It's always worth looking at.

> Compare a four year degree to two years of travel and two years work experience in your chosen field. Which do you think has the edge?

With the right school, you can do all 3.

> What establishes a right to be at Stanford?

Stanford does.

Because a company the size of Verisign isn't just one guy at a shell prompt generating keys for customers.

Trust is expensive. It's probably the most expensive thing you can buy in modern society. A thousand bucks is a deal, if you ask me.

> 3-4 of the best years of your life is a hefty price to pay

Those 3-4 aren't really going to be the best unless you're in an environment with young girls, beer, drugs, and class, where you get to meet new people.

What are you going to do, get a job instead?

Don't make me laugh.

This guy Tim Ferriss is a master BS artist.