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> Web development takes the lion's share of computing people pay for which translates to the work people will do (we need money for survival)

This just isn't true. There are so many systems where the web component is just the tiny part of the iceberg you can see, but underneath some form of browser client there's a huge mountain of computer-based technology. Concepts like containerization and microservices are far bigger than the notion of current web development.

2-stroke exhaust and new tires... Maybe it's the association with memorable activities like visiting a motorcycle dealership with my dad as a kid, or a mowed lawn and warm summer rain? Meanwhile diesel exhaust makes me think of those cold, cold winter days, waiting for the car to warm up on an ice-cold vinyl seat...

forget about that - they're doing a cryptocurrency!

Maybe the "we love ads" argument is gone, but I still see the "I've trained myself to ignore ads" line of reasoning, which is countered by dark patterns exploiting thousands of years of evolution against ignoring things like motion and bright colours. Plus I'm not sure how you "ignore" non-optional ads between what you want and where you're at...

Just a single data point warning: I've had nothing but bad experiences with blacklisted, shared IPs from SES. Everything gets flagged as spam.

You didn't seem to get much of a reaction, probably because of your recommendations to go with proven (read: old & boring) tech, but I appreciate it. Front-end churn is real and, coupled with rapidly evolving and ever-abstracting containerization approaches, staying on top of it is a full-time job, best done as an employee.

Sending via SES and WorkMail ALL of my emails are flagged as spam, including replies to the original sender and things as benign as accepting meeting requests. We use it primarily for inbound, so not as big a deal but definitely going to move soon.

I understand where you're coming from, but you don't have to pursue your absolute best in everything you do. It's fine to just "do" things casually. I think people would be much happier if they prioritized participation over mastery.

> 1-2 months is a more reasonable tiny project timeframe. It gives you enough time to build something with substance, and test the idea thoroughly.

This is a similar timeframe that Basecamp uses for internal initiatives. I've been pushing for us to switch from 2-week sprints to something closer to 6-week features. If you're building on existing product or a brand new one 1-2 weeks is just not enough time for meaningful progress.

Maybe he meant "reputation for ridiculously bad drivers going crazy fast"?

the math is still incredibly lopsided. Your secretary can pay off her mortgage or buy a new car; the founders get FU money. This is just how it works; hate the game not the player.

The HN community is full of incredibly intelligent but often young tech-centric people. I used to be part of the latter, but the reality is they lack a huge amount of context and experience. Being a talented developer-employee, even an early employee is jut not the same as being the founder / maker / starter. I sincerely doubt any of these people spent every single day of the past seven years worrying about the fate of their entire company; if you did, you're an incredible employee but you should have been running your own gig.

He mentions his VCs have always been available and engaged, so I think it's reasonable that they knew he would be open and public about the deal; he always has in the past.

Am I the only one who immediately thought of this episode of community (Digital Estate Planning)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 1fgR7oeIXFA

if it's before though, then how would isolation after symptoms prevent the spread? I think the original post stand if perhaps overstated.

> only to find out later there's no way to add an Outlook calendar.

I haven't even looked at it but seeing this in the comments means I can't use it. Many (most?) of your target "elite professionals" are running Outlook in the enterprise.

I'm getting there, plus old enough that FB and twitter never made any impression. Google apps is hard to cut off when you have school age kids though.

This seems similar to how I felt when consulting and knew I was billing at a much higher rate than others. Even if there is some form of value-for-money angle you feel like you have a target on your back and will be an early "win" for the bean counters when the knifes come out. My advice: be prepared for the end at anytime (like 4pm today) and enjoy it while you can!

wouldn't the wage fixing scandal, which was essentially illegal oligopolistic behaviour, be an example of how a larger market, wider area supply/demand relationship would look more like the classic economic model, i.e., this exact case?

When there are 100 jobs and only 10 qualified people in SF ,all paying huge cost of living, they can command very high salaries to cover COL plus more.

When there are 10 Million people living in dramatically cheaper COL centers they (a) can survive on much less, and (b) are all competing for 100 jobs, driving the supply curve way down.

> restatement of economic generalities help

because this is a textbook example of why these generalities hold true, but only in really basic, aggregate cases.

> this makes zero sense to me, the value you add most likely doesn’t change because of where you live

Salaries were/are so high because of the limited supply of qualified labour. If they now accept workers from everywhere the supply side constraint just got blown wide open.

How would his PA log him into twitter when he's sitting on the toilet @ 2am sharing his deep wisdom? Can you imagine the hissy-fit he would throw if required to use a strong password, or getting a guy who has his email printed and dictated to use a pw manager?

...Or did you think his social media team sent all those tweets? There's a few obvious ones but I believe the vast majority are straight from the orange mind itself!

> Mozilla and Google are implementing to the same standards and specifications; problem is, Chrome's a better implementation, for speed and stability, in the average case and the corner case.

This is not the interpretation I make of the current landscape. Google is SETTING standards that directly benefit themselves, just like MS did; Chrome uses it's market share to push in directions that benefit Google before they benefit end users.

I'm probably tilting at windmills, but I develop in Firefox, then spend the extra effort to make it work in Chrome for the few areas where behaviour is different. I tend to build stuff for smaller audiences of enterprise-oriented users though; not sure if this would be appropriate for massive consumer plays.

Well if you've hurt your career with in-person failures, wait until you experience the context-free over-reaction that come from a faux pas made in a faceless medium that keeps record of your transgression forever. Getting mad at someone in-person also provides an opportunity to build a relationship that allows for a more intimate sharing of emotions; try getting that with email and slack.

A startup that waited until they had a high-functioning product doing what it's actually supposed to do, and then launched their PR campaign? unlikely.

If your scenario was accurate they would have registered a domain and put up a bunch of staged photos and doctored video footage, then initiated a media blitz about how they've solved the biggest challenges and are taking investment.

> with each new technology you learn, there's a diminishing effort to learning the next.

You kind of answer this in your following paragraph, but there's also diminishing benefits with learning the next great tech stack. Coupled with the exploding growth in frameworks et al, it's impossible to learn them all.

So I'd counter your fear of the 10x 1 year experience "veteran" with the very real scenario that you have a 10x technologies for doing the same thing. This might help someone get a job but not too many companies need this specialized, redundant skill set.

Q: You're a 20 or 30-something start-up founder, pulled a million different ways, trying to grow your company on a shoe string budget and decide you need to hire another team member; what do you do?

A: Spend all your energy to target potential hires from a demographic into which you have no insight or contacts, that typically wants more reward and less risk than you can possibly provide.

They can most certainly be open to having a diverse team but it's not up to every startup with a few employees to fix the system*

*the opinion of this 50ish visible minority

maybe with a SW company where salaries are by far the biggest cost, but $1M revenue isn't $110K per person like a previous post suggests

"Already successful famous billionaires say no to almost everything"

Advice that doesn't really help the rest of us, much ...