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This post seems to be targeted to our favorite NTWTFK archetypes. No ability? No problem. No knowledge about computers? No problem. No experience? No prob
by seiji 13y ago
This post seems to be targeted to our favorite NTWTFK archetypes. No ability? No problem. No knowledge about computers? No problem. No experience? No problem. After all, we have cloud social viral app store now. School? Worthless. Learn rails in two days and sell your company for $50 million dollars. (That gets a qualifier added in a footnote of "just kidding, everything I said above isn't true, you'll actually need to know things. I'm practicing being a motivational speaker. How am I doing? Vote on HN.")
The "just quit and do imaginary things" equation changes rapidly when you have a talented engineer giving up $250k/year at google to play fantasy startup land.
As much as we read about up and to the right success, happy luck after moving to The Bay Area, and becoming multi-millionaires after two years (or just six months if you're great at tricking people), it doesn't happen so magically.
At least you're keeping the dream alive?