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Yes the cost of health care is extremely inflated. However, it is not just insurance companies who benefit from this trend. Doctors' base salary is 189k while investment bank associates (2 years experience) get paid around that with salary and bonus. Most of the doctors I know are millionaires.

Engineers are just middle class who didn't get screwed. The real bubble is in the medical industry and Wall Street and it's not gonna pop any time soon.

Why would companies switch to delivering Android apps first if their paying customers are mostly on iOS? This is a business decision and not a religious/"I like X platform and you should follow" decision.

The average user wouldn't care much about proprietary ports. What's exactly mindset from 90s when it was the first to bring smart phone to the mass market? Every company has its pros and cons. If Apple won't come out with anything new and come out with lacklustre updates, I might short it. But back in 2009, it was a laughable decision by Wilson. Investing is much irrational. One shouldn't be so emotionally invested in or against any company regarding money.

I'm sorry for the author's experience but knowledge and preparation is the key to winning the war i.e. getting in the US and/or stay for certain amount of times. I'm not a lawyer but I have filed visa applications and petitions with the US Immigration Office USCIS many times by myself and have always been successful despite the fact that my country used to be in a war with the US. The laws are complicated if you don't read ahead and prep. If you do, it's a breeze. Hope this helps someone: visajourney dot com

For ruby it would be nice if gems can be used as well.

I parted away with CS to major in biochem thinking it wasn't as fascinating (first course was in C++). This is definitely not a bad idea and also already implemented. Stanford has CS101 in entirely Javascript: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs101/

I'm also tired of the "gender" articles on HN. BUT we don't have to agree that men are entitled (yes, I changed it) and so on. Since not all can agree to disagree, we will continue to see this (hopefully) once in a while.

This is actually necessary because of the first nauseating article. If you correctly remember, another Techcrunch post also made the round before jwz set the record straight.

I heard people telling women to have babies and quit learning (let alone starting their own companies) more than what Penelope has portrayed. Matter of fact, NO ONE has ever told me to join a startup or start one. This is not a first time Ms. Trunk has lectured us about what women think and want. Please, you don't present every female and all this talk should stop. Just do your job or whatever you want.

If you read her whole life story, it's not all "class". She is remembered as nothing but wife to someone else, and another rich someone else.

Lack of motivation to do what's important? or lack of priority list.

Right, was thinking that the writer could file a petition on change.org, great way to build the buzz (aside from the main purpose)

It's very different, the first step of a ticket to an investment bank, consulting firms etc is your "super-elite" school name.

I agree, esp one with financial background.

second that