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Letter To A Young Programmer Considering A Startup
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Page 2, middle of the second paragraph: > In fact, study after study predicts that carbon emissions will keep growing by roughly three percent a year – and at that rate, we'll blow through our 565-gigaton allowance in 16 years, around the time today's preschoolers will be graduating from high school. The article was written in July of 2012. At the time of writing the estimated global carbon budget (the amount of carb…
I love how this got downvoted and the guy calling me a liar didn't.
Huh. You're right; I totally missed that.
And I didn't call you a liar. The world isn't black and white like that, OK?
Nonetheless, you singled out this easily-missable page 2 speculation and cast it out like a solid gold internationally accepted fact. That's what I, and perhaps others, took issue with. I'm not disagreeing with you just to be an asshole. Nothing drastic is going to happen in 16.0 years.
The funny thing is I basically agree with you, but you should stop hanging your entire arguments on obscure, debatable predictions from page two of articles on some site last year.
> >I hope you learned your lesson > Indeed.
Learn the right lesson. People are not out to attack you, well not me anyway. Just change the way you construct the argument.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are also plenty of startups that don't value or recognize technical skill and where it's easy for a junior engineer to get hired. Those are terrible as well, because (a) they'll make you stay mediocre and (b) you end up learning the wrong lessons.
like that HN'er's story of wiping a production DB accientally and the company (a social gaming company) blaming him and bullying him into resigning. (instead of asking why they had given a Jr. Dev write access to production in the first place)
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are also plenty of startups that don't value or recognize technical skill and where it's easy for a junior engineer to get hired. Those are terrible as well, because (a) they'll make you stay mediocre and (b) you end up learning the wrong lessons.
like that HN'er's story of wiping a production DB accientally and the company (a social gaming company) blaming him and bullying him into resigning. (instead of asking why they had given a Jr. Dev write access to production in the first place)
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are also plenty of startups that don't value or recognize technical skill and where it's easy for a junior engineer to get hired. Those are terrible as well, because (a) they'll make you stay mediocre and (b) you end up learning the wrong lessons.
like that HN'er's story of wiping a production DB accientally and the company (a social gaming company) blaming him and bullying him into resigning. (instead of asking why they had given a Jr. Dev write access to production in the first place)
Do you have a link to that post?
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#156God is just. As Pete said, "When it comes to women, when you lose, you lose and when you win, you really lose."
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My code is divinely inspired, like the Bible; a stumbling block that became the cornerstone.
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I love how this got downvoted and the guy calling me a liar didn't.
Huh. You're right; I totally missed that. And I didn't call you a liar. The world isn't black and white like that, OK? Nonetheless, you singled out this easily-missable page 2 speculation and cast it out like a solid gold internationally accepted fact. That's what I, and perhaps others, took issue with. I'm not disagreeing with you just to be an asshole. Nothing drastic is going to happen in 16.0 years. The funny thi…
Wow. You're still arguing with me about this? You were wrong. Admit you were wrong and move on. Jesus Christ.
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh. You're right; I totally missed that. And I didn't call you a liar. The world isn't black and white like that, OK? Nonetheless, you singled out this easily-missable page 2 speculation and cast it out like a solid gold internationally accepted fact. That's what I, and perhaps others, took issue with. I'm not disagreeing with you just to be an asshole. Nothing drastic is going to happen in 16.0 years. The funny thi…
Wow. You're still arguing with me about this? You were wrong. Admit you were wrong and move on. Jesus Christ.
Gee, sorry for trying to be helpful and trying to have an adult discussion.
Right, yeah, whatever; on the question of did X article from Y years ago happen to contain the number 16 then you were right and I was wrong. Congrats.
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#159And this is why I stopped playing that particular game and started playing a very different, but no less systematized and traditional game: being a consultant software developer with clients that pay per project or per hour, rather than in four-year equity vesting cycles.
I'd love to read a blog post on how you set this up, and what kind of work you do!
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#160First off, I agree with much of what you said. I think there is a way to be insanely devoted to your craft and still maintain your relationships. Sure, you might not be the social butterfly who goes to parties every night, but if you can't maintain some small semblance of a life, what's the point? Unless you're some entrepreneur martyr.. "A startup is just a means to an end. Consider the end, and don’t seek to revel…
To extrapolate form the rest of his post, I think he phrased that part poorly. I think he really meant to advise not to revel in merely being a participant in a startup, as if that should provide you with satisfaction in and of itself. If you're in the startup world and have chosen your position well enough to be enjoying the journey, I don't think you're the target audience. He's really targeting the people who might become entrepreneurial martyrs.