good luck.
I'm a loser and I want to change that - now
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Re: I'm a loser and I want to change that - now
#222Anything one human can do another can do as well. Only the time to master the skills might differ. it is the pattern of thought which enables the completion of mental tasks. Learning them takes time and persistence and the motivation to stick with the task. Sometimes one or the other of these requirements are missing in a persons background due to faulty instructions during childhood. Defining which tasks are missing and correcting the behavior will result in success or an emotionally created stuck spot in the strategy. This can be fixed by thinking carefully about how the person achieves the failure and replacing that strategy with a successful one. One method of doing the discovery is to simply type out the internal dialog verbatim and correcting that dialog, or the conclusions of the dialog, which will be the limiting instruction.
Re: I'm a loser and I want to change that - now
#223Good luck man. But you should just try to achieve doing something that makes you happy. Making boatloads of money, the next Google, or some other goal that 1/10000000 people would ever achieve is not the be all end all of it (if it's even a valid life goal).
Yes, but so far, I literally haven't achieved anything. I'm not shooting for Google or Facebook. If only I can find a small niche market, I would be perfectly content with that.
Well congratulations, your first noteworty achievement:
You just made the frontpage of Hacker News, gained a serious amount of replies and (most importantly) connected Wieth thousands of people around the world :) Now get your head up buddy
Re: I'm a loser and I want to change that - now
#224I want to give you hope but to be blunt, if your 30 an not an established coder your not going to be. I started coding when I was 11 (dumb stuff of course, but actual coding), went to university and got a CS degree, now I'm in my late 30s and I have been coding for a good ~25 years, ~12 professionally (as in day job). You have to compete with people like me, people who enjoy coding, people who go to work then come ho…
Exactly. This guy has no chance!
Really? That makes me sad.
Re: I'm a loser and I want to change that - now
#225> I don't have too much time left. My 20ies are gone
Sorry, but that made me laugh. You just turned 30. Talk to anyone over 40, 50, or 60, and ask them whether they wouldn't love to be 30 again, just to have so much time ahead of them.
Point being, you have plenty of time left. Time is not your problem -- motivation and focus are.
Re: I'm a loser and I want to change that - now
#226I want to give you hope but to be blunt, if your 30 an not an established coder your not going to be. I started coding when I was 11 (dumb stuff of course, but actual coding), went to university and got a CS degree, now I'm in my late 30s and I have been coding for a good ~25 years, ~12 professionally (as in day job). You have to compete with people like me, people who enjoy coding, people who go to work then come ho…
With all due respect, you are speaking like an employee, and the OP explicitly stated that his intention is to be a founder. It's undoubtedly true that coding skills can matter in the early days, especially if you're a solo founder and don't have a technical partner, but if you're a founder and your company has any significance then your abilities to manage others, stay motivated, create detailed and inspired yet feasible product specifications, pivot when necessary to meet market demand, effectively & cheaply acquire customers, create distribution channels, market your company, etc. are vastly more important than your ability to code. The employees do the bulk of the coding.
Re: I'm a loser and I want to change that - now
#227you're not a loser. Sometime I feel like a loser too, but sometime I don't feel that way. It's something that stick to your identity at some points and falloff at other points.
Re: I'm a loser and I want to change that - now
#228Is the TortoiseSVN development team trolling?
Yeah -- I am wondering if possible troll?
I think it's unlikely that there'd be more than one Stefan Keung in Switzerland coming to hacker news.
So if OP is who he says he is, then he's seriously delusional right now. TortoiseSVN is a huge accomplishment and there's no way someone who's contributed so much should feel this way.
Re: I'm a loser and I want to change that - now
#229Keep in touch with someone that will push you, and push him or her too. I am great at procrastination and could use with extra pushing. I have some people that kick me up the butt when I need it, which is nice. Do you have any kind of IM? If so, shoot me an email (see my profile).
Re: I'm a loser and I want to change that - now
#230I have been a dreamer all my life. It took me until last year to figure this out, and only thanks to this community. Great. Dreaming is necessary but not sufficient for great accomplishments. Glad you're one of us. I hardly ever tried - and when I tried, I didn't persist. It has been my goal to start a business since ever I can remember. And yet I never really tried (until last year, which resulted in abysmal failure…
Another one to add to best of edw519