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In my experience, it doesn't help at all. Move to SV and you'll understand.
by fightme 4y ago
In my experience, it doesn't help at all. Move to SV and you'll understand.
- throwanem 4y agoI looked at it early on, right when I was starting out. That was a little before the dotcom crash, enough that only the really smart people were starting to think it was coming. Everything there looked amazing, and everyone I knew there was miserable every day, and I couldn't spend all my time in the Castro. So I took a powder and ended up in Baltimore. I wasn't sure I'd made the right call till a few years later, when I heard one of the guys I'd stayed with then had killed himself. Sure, so maybe I missed out on a shot at some lottery tickets. So I'll never have fuck-you money, so what? Neither will almost everyone else - we call them "lottery tickets" for a reason, and that's before we get to the shitshow the next five years are going to be. With the time I didn't waste chasing after them, I've managed to build a hell of a good life for myself, work included. I sit every day in an office full of windows and surrounded by trees, and I'm even still able to enjoy the birdsong once in a while. I don't have to look very hard for good jobs by now; mostly these days they come and find me. I don't want for a thing in this world that money can buy. And it's been a very long time since I had to work with anyone I couldn't find a way to like. So yeah, the choices I've made have been more than worth what they cost me. Can you say the same?
- fightme 4y agoWho's gratifying his ego now?
- throwanem 4y ago
- fightme 4y ago
- throwanem 4y agoOkay. I wish you joy of it, I suppose. You seem like you could use some.
- dang 4y agoCould you also please stop breaking the site guidelines, regardless of how annoying another commenter is or you feel they are? You unfortunately have a long history of doing this and we've had to ask you many times not to. That's not cool. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24472907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24472907 (Sept 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22709407 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22709407 (March 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22709404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22709404 (March 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21522018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21522018 (Nov 2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15044234 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15044234 (Aug 2017)
- dwaltrip 4y agoThere isn't a nice way to say this. You are acting like an an asshole... You even have a good point. I'm sure many SV companies are filled with politics and good deeds aren't often rewarded. But being an asshole doesn't make you more right. It just makes you an asshole.
- dang 4y agoCould you please not break the site guidelines like this? In fact, if I'm not mistaken, every comment you've posted over the last 2 years has broken the site guidelines, and that's well over half your posts to HN. Obviously we would normally ban such an account. However, your posts before that were good—so I'd much rather not ban you. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- mathgladiator 4y agoI did my big tech tour of duty, and most of my later years were all about helping people. Even now, as a retiree, I help people.