Losers hate winners, no matter the context.
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Otherwise people will just laugh at you behind your back. Or to your face.
If you are starting a business, then YOU are the business person. It doesn't matter where the money comes from. There are business people who specialize in investing money, but then there are also business people who actually run the god damn businesses.
> Being "in the trenches" is what entrepreneurs, hackers, scientists do.
ENTREPRENEURS ARE BUSINESS PEOPLE. Holy fucking shit, stop reading Hacker News and try to hang out in reality for a little while each day.
I used to think this until I started running a business. Business people take the risks. There's nothing stopping a hacker from being a business person and often times there is great overlap, but let's be clear about the semantics here: someone puts up the money for an engineer to do his job, and that's the business person.
Business people fail constantly and with no fanfare. You may not realize this because you're a hacker that's only worked for successful businesses where the management has tricked you into thinking you are responsible for the success of the business, but I assure you that is naive and you are being manipulated successfully because your business people are smarter than you.
If I had my way the names seth godin, tim ferriss, derek sivers, or any number of these quack bloggers would never show up in HN. I come here for business and technology, not bullshit self-help articles on agenda-having auto-promotional blogs.
Therefore, money makes me not unhappy. Which is good enough for me.
These are XXX comments and they're pretty common even with the best developers. They're so common that pretty much every editor has a syntax highlighting regex to detect them.
Who would have thought.
There's probably 64 or 128 VPS on one machine.
> and I'm always using 1/8 of CPU time
There's your problem right there. You're believing what you're told by someone selling shared access to a finite resource.
Protip: Privated AAA does everything the DMV does.
This is the #1 indicator that you are underpaid. Just ask for your desired salary and if you don't get it, quit. If you can't quit without being in financial trouble - that's your problem. You won't be getting a raise then.
Don't make this more complicated than it has to be.
If I'm not, it's simply impossible.
This stuff really isn't that complicated, people.
... I think I answered my own original question.
But wait, if historically delayed flights were delayed because of the high passenger loads and congestion effect of peak times and routes, if everyone were armed with the same historical information, would the new passenger distribution "stampede" to historically non-delayed routes, thus causing those to be delayed, or would the distribution normalize over time to help congestion overall?
I guess we'll see.
What if I take that as gospel and show up to the airport late or otherwise make plans based on that data and then it turns out it wasn't actually delayed?
Isn't the equilibrium action for me to show up at the airport on time no matter what?
I'm trying to get rich so I don't have to answer to some clown barely half my age when I'm 40.
"I don't know anything about it, but I'm definitely qualified to comment on it because I'm so awesome."
It's his problem for believing the bullshit "adults" told him all his life. I knew from day one it was complete and utter nonsense. I bet he learned to blame others from them too. He should only blame himself for his lack of foresight.
I also have a degree from a good university but the difference is I used that time as an opportunity to extend my social and professional network instead of counting on a fucking piece of paper to grant me magical opportunities. College is what it's always been: a club for the children of privilege to come together and make relationships. If you treat it as such, the value of an "education" is apparent the minute you step foot on campus. Don't waste your time going to a bullshit school without any smart or wealthy people. Just skip it unless you can go to a good school.