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As much as I appreciate all these articles expounding the plethora of issues stemming from housing in the Bay Area, I can't help but feel thoroughly discouraged.

It seems that despite an abundance of chatter, we'll never see any change. If things were going to be fundamentally different, any time soon, we'd see indications of that. Instead it's just articles. Articles, on articles, on articles.

I'd love to see something like this applied to the goal of gaining muscle. I've been a twig my whole life. In college, I gained 20 lbs of "noob gains" and then tapered off severely. I've maintained that weight, but can't gain more with any reasonable effort.

Dear ddv,

You've got a potential million+ dollar business in the works. In fact, I'd quit my job to be a programmer on your team.

This.

It's becoming rather annoying how "holier than thou" the modern American has become. What's so distressing, is that these authors/people, never recognize their own shortcomings, but are so adept at pointing out others.

That we are, that we are.

Fair point. However, as someone who has (professionally) jumped from many different projects, on completely different platforms, I can attest to the fact that it is often quicker to pick up a system, than to develop it from scratch. That would certainly be the case here.

Of course the code might not match their quality expectation, nor feature set, but the sell price would reflect that (I would assume).

Perhaps I'm trying too hard to argue for something, that just doesn't exist :)?

Oh, and I personally don't agree much with the "don't re-invent the wheel" adage. In software, re-inventing the wheel has made many people, many riches.

Well, I would expect that as part of the deal, I (the developer) would be kept on to help get their team up to speed. That would be worked into the sell cost, of course.

But I get your point. I'm not even sure if this is feasible either, I just don't want to see my project of 1.5 years go to waste!