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I did the scariest thing I can imagine: I resigned

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Re: I did the scariest thing I can imagine: I resigned

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Post by wasigh »

digitalengineer wrote: post #117

Congrads, you've made it to HN! Now for Pete's sake add some contact info and details on your blog! I'm from the Netherlands like you, but you're contact page is almost empty. Put your company's name, address, experiences, linkedin, projects and what not on there. You need to start building trust with regards to future clients and people that might want to hire you to help them finish their projects.

Thx, I will add the details. In the mean time. If you need to contact me. Check out: www.wasigh.nl!

Re: I did the scariest thing I can imagine: I resigned

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Post by marmaduke »

Choppen5 wrote: post #107
a5seo wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you arguing that Einstein invented the atomic bomb in the US because our infrastructre was better than Germany?

Einstein invented the atomic bomb? That's funny. Not very HN level of knowledge there buddy. And yes.. that is almost exactly the reason (US vs Germany developed the first atomic bomb). 1000x the resources and scientists, applied to a know physical possibility, supported by: the government, and infrastructure via the army.

there's a quote from a German minister during WWII: "Their German scientists are better than our German scientists."

Re: I did the scariest thing I can imagine: I resigned

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Post by mquander »

robomartin wrote: post #111
diek wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A few logical issues... the Interstate Highway System is an ongoing investment. It may have started in 1956, but it requires constant upkeep which, as you pointed out, is covered by taxes. The fellow you mention launching a web development business today may not owe his success to government because his desk was shipped using infrastructure, but he does owe his success (in part ) to the research investment that creat…

All of these things are requirements dor a modern society. They are used by everyone. Entrepreneurs and businesses are just one class of users. If you travelled in time back to the 1500's you would use whatever infrastructure in place wherever you land. It isn't any different today. The government didn't create the Internet as we know it today. Yes ARPAnet was the genesis of what eventually became the modern Internet…

Don't you think it's ridiculous that you've picked a guy earning a government pension at $301k a year and you're castigating him, when there are loads of people in the private sector earning up to tens or hundreds of times more than that? You could find people on Hacker News that make that much writing iPhone apps where people pay to click on pigs, or who figure out new ways to make ads harder to avoid.

Are you really going to assert that the private sector workers are all "earning" that money in some way that the government worker in question cannot possibly be? How do you know?

Why do you feel so strongly that this guy with a pension must be screwing you, but not the far more numerous, far richer people in our world?

Re: I did the scariest thing I can imagine: I resigned

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Post by digitalengineer »

wasigh wrote: post #121
digitalengineer wrote: post #117

Congrads, you've made it to HN! Now for Pete's sake add some contact info and details on your blog! I'm from the Netherlands like you, but you're contact page is almost empty. Put your company's name, address, experiences, linkedin, projects and what not on there. You need to start building trust with regards to future clients and people that might want to hire you to help them finish their projects.

Thx, I will add the details. In the mean time. If you need to contact me. Check out: www.wasigh.nl!

Much better! If you make the links in the About page clickable, I think people would really like that ;-)

Re: I did the scariest thing I can imagine: I resigned

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Post by nhebb »

marmaduke wrote: post #122
Choppen5 wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Einstein invented the atomic bomb? That's funny. Not very HN level of knowledge there buddy. And yes.. that is almost exactly the reason (US vs Germany developed the first atomic bomb). 1000x the resources and scientists, applied to a know physical possibility, supported by: the government, and infrastructure via the army.

there's a quote from a German minister during WWII: "Their German scientists are better than our German scientists."

FYI - I don't know if that quote is real. It was a post-WWI Cold War quip that has been attributed to many people (even Bob Hope).

Re: I did the scariest thing I can imagine: I resigned

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Post by kamaal »

mquander wrote: post #124
robomartin wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All of these things are requirements dor a modern society. They are used by everyone. Entrepreneurs and businesses are just one class of users. If you travelled in time back to the 1500's you would use whatever infrastructure in place wherever you land. It isn't any different today. The government didn't create the Internet as we know it today. Yes ARPAnet was the genesis of what eventually became the modern Internet…

Don't you think it's ridiculous that you've picked a guy earning a government pension at $301k a year and you're castigating him, when there are loads of people in the private sector earning up to tens or hundreds of times more than that? You could find people on Hacker News that make that much writing iPhone apps where people pay to click on pigs, or who figure out new ways to make ads harder to avoid. Are you reall…

>Why do you feel so strongly that this guy with a pension must be screwing you, but not the far more numerous, far richer people in our world?

Its not that worker, but that system in which that worker is employed which is the problem. It encourages a behaviors where hardworking are supposed to pay up and carry everybody else's burden. Sooner or later that kills the whole system.

There are somethings that you need to think about his statement- Which is-

>Today I heard on the radio that sa government worker is retiring with a pay of $301,000 pension FOR LIFE. Yes, that guy owes his success to government as I can almost guarantee you that he did nothing to have earned or deserved that pay.

Right there you see what he is trying to point out. Among all people who are retiring. Some might be exceptionally good performers, some exceptionally bad, some mediocre. But all are paid equally. This directly means some of them are paying up and working for others.

Next you say:

>>Don't you think it's ridiculous that you've picked a guy earning a government pension at $301k a year and you're castigating him, when there are loads of people in the private sector earning up to tens or hundreds of times more than that?

If they are making it from their work, its theirs. That's totally different than the pension argument which I mentioned earlier, where a few people pay for everybody else. Thereby there is no incentive for actual hard workers to do their work as they want. Why the hell should anybody work so hard ultimately only to find he and the guy who did absolutely did no work at all get the same rewards?

>>You could find people on Hacker News that make that much writing iPhone apps where people pay to click on pigs, or who figure out new ways to make ads harder to avoid.

You can't decide others taste on what they consider valuable.

Re: I did the scariest thing I can imagine: I resigned

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Post by czr80 »

javert wrote: post #110
ktizo wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To interpret his comment any other way than I did, is to ignore the broader ideological context. Is more to ignore the rest of the speech. He goes on to say - "The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together." - which doesn't sound as though he is claiming that you can't take credit for building a business, just that you can't take all the…

doesn't sound as though he is claiming that you can't take credit for building a business, just that you can't take all the credit. Yes, he's saying you can't take all the credit, which means that you can't "take credit" for it. Taking credit has an implied "all the", as in, "take [all the] credit." This distinction actually matters. Obama is taking something absolute -- This is my business, these are my profits -- a…

> Taking credit has an implied "all the", as in, "take [all the] credit."

I'm sorry, but this is complete nonsense.

Re: I did the scariest thing I can imagine: I resigned

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Post by jeremyjh »

theotherone wrote: post #21
spicyj wrote: post #2

> Instead of grieving about the fact that I won’t be able to work at one of these companies, I decided to try and build my own. If you want to do your own thing that's great, but if you really want to work at one of those companies, let them tell you whether you're good enough -- there's no reason to make the decision for them.

Github has remote employees.

Heroku is hiring in Europe.

Re: I did the scariest thing I can imagine: I resigned

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Post by ktizo »

anamax wrote: post #109
ktizo wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have no idea whether or not mental outlook has that effect but we're damning a US senate candidate who said that it did. I don't think that was quite what he said, if you are referring to Tod Akin.

>> I have no idea whether or not mental outlook has that effect but we're damning a US senate candidate who said that it did. > I don't think that was quite what he said, if you are referring to Tod Akin. Actually, it was. He said that women who were raped were less likely to concieve. He didn't specify the mechanism, but mental state is the only plausible candidate. Like I said, a huge fraction of the population bel…

Wow. You are one insane waste of skin.

By the way, I am neither republican, or democrat, or american for that matter. I just am fascinated by american politics, in much the same way that some people are fascinated by particularly gruesome car crashes.

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