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Friendly advice: your rate just got another zero or two added to it. (This goes to anyone who can write a similar case study, too.)
by patio11 14y ago
Friendly advice: your rate just got another zero or two added to it. (This goes to anyone who can write a similar case study, too.)
- Radim 14y agoUhm, what did I miss, what is his rate now?
- seiji 14y agoYou didn't miss anything. Some people just enjoy injecting their pet causes into threads kinda irrelevantly.
- troygoode 14y agoConsidering his pet cause in this case is helping developers stop systemically undervaluing their work, I say that is something we need more of.
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoThere are two kinds of people with pet causes I appreciate The altruists, who dedicate years of research and learning to finding and giving freely medical or other breakthroughs to make a better world. I am glad they exist, please give them my tax dollars, but I stopped trying to fix the world around 35 years old. The other kind is patio11 kind - sorta altruistic - but getting paid altruistic. Since my Damascean conversion at the age of 35, I appreciate this kind too - you cannot have my tax dollars but you can persuade me to buy The world needs both kinds. Well, it needs the first kind, it will never be short of the self-interest altruism. And since his pet cause is about making me money, I like his self interest.
- codewright 14y ago> Damascean I don't think this is a word. What are you trying to say?
- euroclydon 14y agoThat would refer to the Apostle Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus. Paul was a murderer of followers of Jesus, but then became a follower himself. So, I assume the commentator believed in altruism through commitments to poverty by the altruistic, big government spending, or something, but now believes in a more competitive free-market form of it.
- baddox 14y agoThe standard demonym for Damascus is "Damascene."
- euroclydon 14y agoThank you.
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- arjn 14y agoI think its a reference to Paul's (the apostle) conversion on the road to Damascus. Details on wikipedia.
- robotresearcher 14y agoAnd also in a popular book.
- saraid216 14y agoTitled, oddly enough, "The Book".
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- burntsushi 14y ago> self-interest This term applies to both kinds of people. The first kind of people you listed are also self-interested. The only difference is what kinds of things motivate them. The first kind are motivated by the pursuit of knowledge and/or sharing it with others. The second kind have a similar motivation, but include money into the mix.
- euroclydon 14y agoHey Troy, What's up with ABsoluteMaybe? Are you still using it. I implemented my own EF storage interface, but after six months the queries started bogging down and I had to kill it. I've been meaning to get it back running. Your out of the box storage is just a serialized file, right? The whole data set is stored in memory? How does that scale?
- pixelbath 14y agoEither private messages or email would be a more appropriate venue to discuss personal matters unrelated to this thread.
- troygoode 14y agoOut of the box is just a flat file, yes, which absolutely won't scale over time. I haven't been using the project recently (was out of the .Net world for a bit) but may be using it again soon and with a need for actual production scale. I'd love to chat more about the limits you hit. Ping me at troygoode@gmail.com.
- anigbrowl 14y agoMail would have been more appropriate in this case, as the discussion of the actual post content has been buried.
- w1ntermute 14y agoIt's not like patio11 has any reason to stop - pretty much all of HN enjoys and encourages his posts.
- bhousel 14y agoThat was kind of condescending, wasn't it?
- tptacek 14y agoIf you're looking for ways to make things sound condescending, you'll reliably find them. Even in comments that say "you're awesome, don't forget to raise your rates".
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- ssharp 14y agoIt's condescending for an authority on digital marketing consulting to think your portfolio and talent is enough warrant charging 10 to 100 times more? I think it came off more respectful than arrogant.
- scoot 14y agoIt's arrogant and condescending to assume one knows more than, and offer unsolicited advice to, someone who just helped build the platform that raised over a quarter billion dollars in 6 months, when one has achieved nothing of the sort.
- b0k 14y agoOP built an e-commerce platform that raised $1B in a matter of months. Top comment sells bingo card software to school teachers. Who is the authority again?
- modarts 14y agoWhy do people hate on patio11 so much?