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Re: I am done. I give up

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Post by rchaud »

ipaddr wrote: post #785
rchaud wrote: post #765

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Just looked at his Twitter. Seems like he's gone off the deep end and is now grifting like Alex Jones. Posts about Fauci, woke liberals, FBI + KGB working in cahoots....pathetic, really.

Pathetic to have different political opinions? Is that where some of us has landed. Anyone speaking against my own views are pathetic worthless and worthy of scorn? Then you wonder why society has divided into culture wars and why so much hate exists in the world.

You are welcome take a look for yourself and ponder whether you'd take business advice from him.

Re: I am done. I give up

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Post by Nowado »

gwbas1c wrote: post #619
annyeonghada wrote: post #447

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>victimhood mentality Does this kind of pseudo-self-help-tough-love help anyone? Whenever I read something like that I do not feel motivated but enraged. Sometimes people are really victims. Mainly of chance.

> Does this kind of pseudo-self-help-tough-love help anyone? Yes, there is a lot of research in this area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset#Fixed_and_growth_minds... I interpret is as being able to ask yourself "what did I learn" when you fail; and realizing that most success comes from trying over and over. ("Most" because some people are lucky and succeed the first time.) In general, people who adopt the growt…

Do you mean the research paper that's linked first in the part you linked (on praising children, measuring motivation of those children, not any results in tests not to even mention effect (or lack of it) long term on life) or the author that's mentioned there (with a large 'Criticism' section in their page that comes down to 'doesn't replicate' - and even that detail aside, this 'research', too, was about school performance with no clear ecological relevancy to the topic at hand)?

I did see the link. Nothing about success, tiny bit about school performance. Have you seen the link?

Re: I am done. I give up

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Post by hahajk »

lallysingh wrote: post #784
throw10920 wrote: post #725

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Developers are also the kind of people who will refuse to pay money for or use proprietary software on principle - regardless of price! I constantly see people on HN suggesting (often highly immature) open-source alternatives to free or reasonably-priced proprietary software for no other reason than the fact that it's open-source . Just like being an author, it's hard to make a living writing (books : software) unles…

Proprietary software risks lock in. Most developers experience the pain of that eventually. You can use that stuff safely if you can survive losing it and continue reasonably (e.g., switch to Emacs or Jenkins). If you can't, it's a huge risk.

Furthermore, getting new software approved at a big corp can already be a hassle. But at all the places I've worked, seeking approvals for and opening up a funding line to pay for a license increases the hassle 10x.

Re: I am done. I give up

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Post by [deleted] »

bumby wrote: post #672
kolbe wrote: post #656

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The US has 18 large cities with a higher homicide rate than Guatemala. 50 with more than half of Guatemala's. The difference between the two countries from a violence perspective hardly constitutes "fleeing." Edit: country level is 6.5 for the US vs 17.5 for Guatemala, which is also not a difference consistent with war vs peace. But since "refugees" end up mostly in cities, and hundreds of thousands end up in the ver…

This is the definition of cherry picking data. If you are comparing rates between countries, use the country data. I have personal experience with refugees from Central America and Mexico. I can assure you, many are fleeing violence. Edit: Dismissing 2.7x rate does not make for a strong point. You are jumping through hoops to not be wrong. E.g., one of the cities that receives the most refugees from Guatemala is El P…

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Post by ornornor »

quarantina wrote: post #435
WA wrote: post #138

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Do opportunities like these still exist?

The corporate world is littered with them (esp. at medium-scale), but you can't magically discover them by reading on the internet.

Feels like most of the problems in that class I’ve stumbled upon were not viable. Not because there wasn’t a need but rather because the people suffering from the problem aren’t the ones signing the cheques, and the ones signing the cheques don’t really care about making the grunts’ work easier/more efficient since that’s what they’re being paid for: to toil.

What advice could you share for discovering this kind of problems that also can also be monetized?

Re: I am done. I give up

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Post by daveidol »

ehnto wrote: post #271
vineyardmike wrote: post #75

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> Why do "indiehackers" want attention from and create products for other "indiehackers"? They’re influencers. That’s why people want their attention. I think it kinda has the look of a cool lifestyle from the outside (to some). They’re digital nomads and they travel to cool places and meeting cool people and tweeting big graphs that go up and to the right. They disavow lots of possessions (again a nomad) while profe…

Something worth thinking about in this context, is that businesses simply must exist in a community of some kind. When you start a small business in your local community, you have a pretty good idea of the appetite, and space for, the product you are selling, you just have to win the popularity contest and then make the financials work. For digital nomads, that community has to be online, which is a difficult landsca…

Great advice, thanks!

Re: I am done. I give up

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Post by taternuts »

I've given up on being that 10x developer that has a laundry list of accomplishments in tech everyone would be proud of about 5 years ago. Unlike most people, I did know what it would take as my dad had done it (and his dad before him as a nuclear physicist). I've seen the insane amount of hours and dedication it takes to run a successful company, I've seen the tradeoffs in life you have to make, and I've seen it really run my dad down.

I became a lot happier in life when I decided I was not going to follow in their footsteps. Neither of them have been great at being happy, and that's something I'm more focused on now.

Re: I am done. I give up

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Post by fxtentacle »

rapind wrote: post #704

> It's also the constant stream of digital nomad influencers on Twitter who sell extremely distorted, rosy, and often times false dreams to indie entrepreneurs like myself. They make it seem like building a successful startup is easy and anyone can do it with the right mindset and a few key tips. This is just startup porn. It’s the same in any category (make money flipping houses!, crypto!, etc.) As a rule of thumb,…

The insidious part is that these grifters make it seem as if everyone had a fair shot at the startup game, when in reality they just pretend it to make their audience of potential customers larger.

My experience going to business events is that all of the startup founders who made it had parents well into the top 1% or 0.1% of the income range. That's why it's so common to raise a $100k friends and family seed round and not even feel worried about losing it all.

If OP wasn't privileged enough, he/she might be doing everything correctly, but the results without a $100k megaphone will be very different.

Re: I am done. I give up

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Post by mindslight »

jusssi wrote: post #228
drstewart wrote: post #216

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Conveniently forgetting some decently sized ones that actually came from the Nordics. At least in Finland, most of the stuff that would be big is sold early, the founders take the 10M and retire to their cottages in the middle of nowhere (edit: I don't mean this the bad way, I'd probably do it too).

Linux: Helsinki.

Without basic foundational creations/discoveries that we can all take for granted, there would be nothing for the vectoralists to build on top of.

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