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Thank you for describing the mundaneness (is that a word?) that is currently my everyday life, and is the everyday life for a huge portion of the working world.

Thank you for describing the mundaneness (is that a word?) that is currently my everyday life, and is the everyday life for a huge portion of the working world. It's not sexy or glamorous, but there are small opportunities everywhere in the nitty-gritty of daily business that often don't involve social networks or the cool technology du-jour. Maybe that's the problem with getting youthful entrepreneurs straight out of college. PG discourages young entrepreneurs from settling down, and getting trapped by employment by someone else. In so doing, these people never see the opportunities for solving problems that small businesses or mega-corporations need. Perhaps it's just the makeup of this little YC-centric microcosm that is tilting my perspective on entrepreneurship. Oh, and I don't know why anybody hasn't fixed the Exchange server problem yet. If Linux and Apple can mount a real challenge to something as complex as Redmond's operating system, why not something silly like their groupware server?

edw519 19y ago
Nice to see I'm not the only one here in my situation, mosburger. I think our everyday "mundaneness" and yc/hn are perfect compliments for each other. I've always had more problems to solve than I could get to and I've always found the technology to do a better job of it. With this group here, now I have that additional "oomph" I sometimes need to do something. It's silly to whine about bad database schemas when our compatriots are using the same skills and technology to change the world. (And don't even get me started about Microsoft. Fodder for another rant, er a I mean post.)
- kirubakaran 19y ago
  Dude do you have a blog?
  - edw519 19y ago
    Nope, this is my "blog". kirkubakaran, I am hoping to finally meet you sometime this weekend. Let's touch base offline sometime today.
    - kirubakaran 19y ago
      I hope no one who knows Tamil (my mother tongue) reads your comment. You just called me a lunatic :-D "kirku" Yea I am looking forward to meeting you too.
allenbrunson 19y ago
hackers love to work on operating systems, window managers, text editors, and compilers, because they use those things themselves. hence all the free software advances in those areas. but a distributed email/calendaring system? not so much. there has been one attempt: chandler. seems like mitch kapor's heart was in the right place, but after six years of glacial progress, he left the project and took his funding with him. it's doomed. apple is more focused on home users than businesses, so an exchange killer is outside their usual m.o. as well.

edw519 19y ago

Nice to see I'm not the only one here in my situation, mosburger. I think our everyday "mundaneness" and yc/hn are perfect compliments for each other. I've always had more problems to solve than I could get to and I've always found the technology to do a better job of it. With this group here, now I have that additional "oomph" I sometimes need to do something. It's silly to whine about bad database schemas when our compatriots are using the same skills and technology to change the world. (And don't even get me started about Microsoft. Fodder for another rant, er a I mean post.)

kirubakaran 19y ago
Dude do you have a blog?
- edw519 19y ago
  Nope, this is my "blog". kirkubakaran, I am hoping to finally meet you sometime this weekend. Let's touch base offline sometime today.
  - kirubakaran 19y ago
    I hope no one who knows Tamil (my mother tongue) reads your comment. You just called me a lunatic :-D "kirku" Yea I am looking forward to meeting you too.

allenbrunson 19y ago

hackers love to work on operating systems, window managers, text editors, and compilers, because they use those things themselves. hence all the free software advances in those areas. but a distributed email/calendaring system? not so much. there has been one attempt: chandler. seems like mitch kapor's heart was in the right place, but after six years of glacial progress, he left the project and took his funding with him. it's doomed. apple is more focused on home users than businesses, so an exchange killer is outside their usual m.o. as well.