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Frankly all the messages he has to put up with are plain stupid, so if he's being a bit of a bastard, rightly so. I just found about his websites, bookmarked n

by gkya 9y ago

Frankly all the messages he has to put up with are plain stupid, so if he's being a bit of a bastard, rightly so. I just found about his websites, bookmarked nomadlist.com already. It's funny, to say the least, how people exaggerate taking some data from a database and spitting it out as HTML. The important bit here is the data and the presentation, nothing else. WRT $50k/mo, for any sane person that's two times more-than-enough. If I could stably do $5k/mo from an app or website I'd be happy.

jgh 9y ago
So I'm going to reply here because I think this is a good one (of the replies I've gotten) to express my thoughts a little bit more clearly: 1) I was wrong about what was going on in that thread. I sort of scanned it at first and saw that snarky "this is why I build companies and you do contracts" post and it rubbed me the wrong way. 2) The $50k (or €50k, im not sure which it is now) number is a lot, but given the way I originally interpreted the thread my initial reaction was more of one like "who does this guy think he is?" 3) I later went back over the thread and saw that people were being needlessly critical of a tiny webapp. All that being said, I do agree with the replies that are being critical of my thinking here -- I just can't go back and edit it on HN!
- gkya 9y ago
  Yeah, that sometimes happens, totally understandable. You can't edit after 2 hours, and I think that's too short of a window. After posting the comment you replied to, I saw you made similar clarifications elsewhere, where if you could edit you could've added a little "whoops" message under your original one. I think it's the word you chose that brought it all on you though. Yet empathising with the way you interpreted the thing, I could've made a similar rant too, frankly.
  - jgh 9y ago
    Yeah I definitely used unnecessarily harsh language. Lesson learned: read thoroughly before being a jerk ;)

by gkya 9y ago

jgh 9y ago

So I'm going to reply here because I think this is a good one (of the replies I've gotten) to express my thoughts a little bit more clearly: 1) I was wrong about what was going on in that thread. I sort of scanned it at first and saw that snarky "this is why I build companies and you do contracts" post and it rubbed me the wrong way. 2) The $50k (or €50k, im not sure which it is now) number is a lot, but given the way I originally interpreted the thread my initial reaction was more of one like "who does this guy think he is?" 3) I later went back over the thread and saw that people were being needlessly critical of a tiny webapp. All that being said, I do agree with the replies that are being critical of my thinking here -- I just can't go back and edit it on HN!

gkya 9y ago
Yeah, that sometimes happens, totally understandable. You can't edit after 2 hours, and I think that's too short of a window. After posting the comment you replied to, I saw you made similar clarifications elsewhere, where if you could edit you could've added a little "whoops" message under your original one. I think it's the word you chose that brought it all on you though. Yet empathising with the way you interpreted the thing, I could've made a similar rant too, frankly.
- jgh 9y ago
  Yeah I definitely used unnecessarily harsh language. Lesson learned: read thoroughly before being a jerk ;)