Story of the Mexican Fisherman

Re:Story of the Mexican Fisherman by breck on Monday March 17, 2008 @03:58PM (#139162)

Something I've always wondered, is if the biggest requirement for being an internet entrepreneur is a computer and internet connection, are there a lot of hackers/programmers living in Mexico/the Caribbean?

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Re:Story of the Mexican Fisherman by tim2 on Monday March 17, 2008 @06:53PM (#139325)

The biggest requirement is having encouragement from people around you or examples of success that seem achievable.

Without these, hacking isn't so alluring.

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Re:Story of the Mexican Fisherman by edw519 on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @08:28AM (#139763)

I would amend that to "The biggest requirement is having encouragement from within". Without that, people around you won't make much difference.

Hacking has always been VERY alluring to me, no matter what anyone else thought. I started long ago, before it was cool.

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Re:Story of the Mexican Fisherman by mattmaroon on Monday March 17, 2008 @07:05PM (#139334)

Well, it also requires the ability to spend a lot of time writing code. There aren't a lot of Mexicans who really work a few hours a day and spend the rest of their time in leisure. Most of them work very hard and just barely scrape by.

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