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The only metric that matters here is ROI.
Did YC increases its ROI and produce a higher percentage of successful startups during Sam Altman’s time? This is the question to answer, and the one upon which he shall be judged. Everything else is pure vanity.
Also, it’s hard to see sellers as getting ripped off when the buyers agent fee is factored into the price. If there was no fee included you would expect to see a drop in price, and this is what happens when a buyer purchases a home without an agent.
1) No one is entitled to a career in cybersecurity or reverse engineering, no matter how poor or sad your origin story is.
2) There are always lucrative opportunities in this world that are out of reach by people who lack some resource. In this case, it's money, but it could easily just have been something like popularity, beauty, connections, location, or even plain old brains.
I always wanted to be popular and loved by many, but I came to accept long ago that it just wasn't going to happen. I'm an introvert, I keep to myself a lot, don't get much pleasure from social outings, and at the end of the day people just don't give a fuck about weird people like that. So I just try to enjoy the gifts I do have and the things that come naturally to me. We all have to accept the realities of our lives at some point, even the poor.
I don’t see how the perspective is odd. Having tools like Core Impact and the knowledge of how to use them well can propel you to a six figure income easily. On top of that these tools are also business expenses you can use for tax write offs.
They are certainly worth the investment. The only people who see the price as steep are those who cannot see any viable way to make a decent ROI off them.
If this is expensive to you, then it’s not for you. This is for people who are making real money with these tools, not hobbyists dicking around.
I’m not sure what your point is, prices are set by what the market is willing to pay. Anything else is not sustainable.
You are not entitled to buy houses wherever you want for whatever price you think is good. Certainly not in the Bay Area.
When a game or piece of software you write is shit, you know it's shit, unless you are completely delusional. Thus once it's actually released you'll probably feel some relief that at least it's finally done and you can move on with your life, putting it behind you. Negative reviews aren't a surprise, they are expected. And in large companies there must be some satisfaction being able to say "I told you so" to fools who thought otherwise.
I think it'd be more interesting to find out what it's like being a small indie developer who banks it all on one game they've been working on for years, and then when it finally releases it's mediocre and mostly ignored, making little to no money.
There's better ways to deal with stress. Pump iron, or go for a run. 30-60 minutes of running should give you a reset.
There have always been clear warnings about why mob justice is bad, but some people just cannot resist its allure: The fame, the righteousness, the feeling of being on some moral high ground where no one can touch you.
It's all so glamorous... until it all turns against you. Once the tide turns there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
No good developer uses ORMs for anything significant.
If you want to be a full stack developer, the quickest way to get there is to build an entire application all through it's layers by yourself. Front end, backend, and databases. And the more complicated and demanding that application is the faster you will learn. Learn how to do migrations and backups, learn security concepts and how to harden your application, learn about the intricacies of UX and UI design. Know the seven layers of OSI and get your hands dirty with them. Learn actual system programming. Stop using fucking ORMs for your SQL.
Don't do what this guy did and master languages deeply and then think that's what makes you full stack. You could actually get away with lesser understanding of languages and technologies if you are very skilled in knowing how they fit together.
However, I have rationalized away this theory with a thought experiment. Imagine someone messed with your brain and remixed your colors. So now maybe what you once saw as red you now see as green. However, since your brain has no other reference, you will not even be aware this change has happened.
Now if we put a device in your brain that changes your colors every second or so, you still won’t even know. You’ll never know! Because you have no way to compare a previous representation with a new one.
Imagine looking out now into the world around you, and being told every second your colors are being rewired. Since you can only have one dictionary of colors in your mind, you see nothing change, because that would imply there is an even deeper meta-representation of colors you can compare with.
Ultimately, colors do not exist. This is why my favorite color is black, as it is the only “true” color, and not to mention everything looks good in black.
It also implies that if you want something that does not fall neatly into the categories given then you're going to pay even more.
Giving estimates is just part of sales. If you're tired of it, then don't work sales.
Edit: Ok I decided I should probably give some constructive advice with every teardown I do, so here's a tip: If you really want to do things this way, instead of instantly giving a price at the end, create the illusion that the info will be sent to a human and you'll send a quote by email after they've had a chance to review. Then just set up a cron job to go through your list of emails at certain strategic times of the day and send personalized messages with the quoted price and time frame. This way you start a conversation with the potential client and keep them on the hook.