Ask HN: Considering leaving my job at a startup? What should I consider?

Re:Ask HN: Considering leaving my job at a startup? What sho... by meritt on Sunday December 21, 2014 @12:33PM (#8780252)

If you leave the job, you should also leave the Bay Area and go somewhere you can afford to live while trying out your own ideas, as you'll give yourself 2x - 3x the runway.

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Re:Ask HN: Considering leaving my job at a startup? What sho... by byoung2 on Sunday December 21, 2014 @12:44PM (#8780310)

you should also leave the Bay Area

Did he say he was in the Bay Area?

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Re:Ask HN: Considering leaving my job at a startup? What sho... by mynewtossaway on Sunday December 21, 2014 @12:57PM (#8780347)

Did I say I was male?

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Re:Ask HN: Considering leaving my job at a startup? What sho... by byoung2 on Sunday December 21, 2014 @01:18PM (#8780417)

The part of the question that interested me was whether you were in the Bay Area or not. Striking out on your own in Montana or Pakistan might be different from doing so in SF.

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Re:Ask HN: Considering leaving my job at a startup? What sho... by mynewtossaway on Sunday December 21, 2014 @01:45PM (#8780506)

it was a joke. i am in a place where cost of living is high. may or may not be sf

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Re:Ask HN: Considering leaving my job at a startup? What sho... by bobbykjack on Sunday December 21, 2014 @01:00PM (#8780358)

Did he say he was a 'he'?

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Re:Ask HN: Considering leaving my job at a startup? What sho... by WoodenChair on Sunday December 21, 2014 @01:07PM (#8780380)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender#English

"Problems arise when selecting a personal pronoun to refer to someone of unspecified or unknown gender (see also Mixed and indeterminate gender above). Traditionally the masculine has been used as the "default" gender in English."

It's just proper English by traditional standards to use he when you don't know the gender of the person. People take it as some kind of an affront, but those of us with English training were just taught that way in college. Source: Minor in English.

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Re:Ask HN: Considering leaving my job at a startup? What sho... by bobbykjack on Sunday December 21, 2014 @01:28PM (#8780452)

And many of us object to that male default. About the first thing I learnt at any serious level of linguistics teaching is that language does not stand still, it evolves. It would be trivial to say "did they say they were in the bay area" in this instance.

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Re:Ask HN: Considering leaving my job at a startup? What sho... by byoung2 on Sunday December 21, 2014 @07:45PM (#8781474)

Using "they" would be grammatically incorrect since the subject is singular. To be politically and grammatically correct I could have gone with "he/she" or "the OP" but statistics and history are on my side with "he" knowing the demographics on this site.

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Re:Ask HN: Considering leaving my job at a startup? What sho... by radq on Sunday December 21, 2014 @10:14PM (#8781803)

"They" can be and is commonly used as a gender-neutral singular.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

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Re:Ask HN: Considering leaving my job at a startup? What sho... by byoung2 on Monday December 22, 2014 @10:47AM (#8783467)

In the acceptability section of that Wikipedia article, most style guides reject singular they usage.

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Re:Ask HN: Considering leaving my job at a startup? What sho... by jagawhowho on Monday December 22, 2014 @10:05AM (#8783270)

I'm absolutley outraged, offended, and flabbergasted of the use of "he".

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