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Hasta la vista Silicon Valley
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- angersock 8y ago> I booked a hotel out in Pacifica overlooking the shoreline and sequestered myself there for 24 hours. I wrote, I read, I crunched numbers and went for long walks on the beach. So, OP booked a hotel room for a day. Whopp de doo. HN, you're being hustled by a dude who professionally hustles. You are upvoting bullshit by a professional bullshitter. Seriously, go read some n-gate and reflect on your life choices. This is cancer.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoDon't break the Prime Directive.
- flatline 8y agoI mean, it’s a blog post. I missed what he’s selling. We all tell ourselves stories like this about our lives, and those stories are always a good part bullshit. So what?
- angersock 8y agoHe is selling himself and his services. He uses pageviews of blogspam like this to justify selling his services to create more blogspam. Poke around his site (hell, follow his own links on this submission) and this si readily apparent. The reason this is bad is the same reason letting kids pick what to eat for every meal is bad: the entire MO OG HN being "stuff hackers find interesting" has been subverted by an advertising industry they've largely helped create.
- gk1 8y agoDon’t be a jerk. So much for being “cheerful,” as your profile says.
- dang 8y agoWould you please stop posting such shitty comments to HN as this one and the one below? We've asked you a huge number of times, and are going to ban you if you keep it up. (This is independent of whatever valid criticism you may have of the article.)
- prdonahue 8y agoIs it just me or does this site screw with the browser's back button? Had to spam it to get back here. Annoying.
- majestik 8y agoSeeya
- gk1 8y agoHey Patrick, congrats on the big decision. Just so you know, you can have a successful consulting career and continue working with SV startups no matter where you are in the world. I’m doing it from Baltimore. Unless you have other reasons for leaving that behind.
- Nicksil 8y agoIf you have JavaScript disabled or are blocking Wix domains, the website content does not display. A static blog entry will not display its content if the Wix JavaScript cannot load. Text will not render to your screen unless you execute a JavaScript payload.
- frk1206 8y agoCurious which country you moved to!
- kchhina 8y agoYesterday was my last day at work at a Silicon Valley tech giant. The 680-Mission-880-237 commute is no more. Instead, a startup in Manhattan, a subway ride away from a tiny apartment. New city, new challenges. We’ll see how much I don’t, or do miss the Bay Area. Hasta luego as well.