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HN is running like clockwork, but it's because everyone has become an entitled developer and not an actual entrepreneur that analyzes a business decision ration
by jarcoal 14y ago
HN is running like clockwork, but it's because everyone has become an entitled developer and not an actual entrepreneur that analyzes a business decision rationally.
Use PayPal or don't. Just don't expect them to let you use it anyway you want.
- StavrosK 14y ago> everyone has become an entitled developer and not an actual entrepreneur that analyzes a business decision rationally Wow, this sentence must win some "highest offense:words ratio" award. It insults so many people in so few words!
- jarcoal 14y agoHah, I don't mean to offend anyone, sorry. I've just been getting increasingly annoyed with the content on HN. We have Slashdot/reddit for developer bitching, why do we need it here?
- StavrosK 14y agoYou mean HN is just for entrepreneur bitching? I'm a developer who runs a product, where can I bitch?
- jarcoal 14y agoYeah, I'm in the same spot as you. I don't think we need mindless bitching anywhere. I think the site would benefit if more people showed up wearing their business hat and left their developer hat somewhere else. I could be mistaken, but I thought that was the point of this forum in the first place.
- StavrosK 14y agoI don't understand the "developer" vs "entrepreneur" distinction. It sounds condescending and patronizing. The OP isn't complaining because he's a developer, he's complaining because he had a bad experience with the service. No matter which hat you wear, feedback is valuable. It updates my probability that I'll get screwed by PayPal a tiny bit higher.
- briandear 14y agoHey jackass. I am an actual entrepreneur that told PayPal to f'off AFTER they held several weeks of income hostage because I logged in from Shanghai. It's not the "entrepreneurs" that are the problem, it's the fact that a company like PayPal gets away with harming our businesses while catering to grandma's trading beanie babies. Developers and entrepreneurs alike STILL use PayPal -- at least until they themselves get burned. Stories like these are important because it should remind us to tell companies like PayPal where to go. As far as "entitled" -- hell yes we're entitled. The developers here on HN make the apps that use the services like PayPal -- they/we have a right to demand that PayPal not suck. PayPal has a right to not listen, but we certainly have the right to complain and take our business elsewhere and as a community of spoiled, entitled, not-actual entrepreneurs we should ALL tell PayPal to pound sand.
- mkopinsky 14y agoDude, chill. Downvote for language.