That's why I put ads, you know how hard I felt to put ads on something that you spend hours perfecting.
My previous App was tet, it has no ads, but I really need to make some revenue to show them.
You want to know what those Ads are, ther'e justification that I won't go broke if I pursue code.
It's not that they are ignorant, it's a lack of exposure and also just tough circumstances that may make it seem unrealistic.
I totally understand the point he is making.
That does not make any sense. Writing code to make a living is a very very popular profession in India. Your parents must be already aware of it.
Heck, even those who can barely code can get jobs in the software-services based industry who put them through bootcamps to learn to code while already paying them to learn. I know of no other country where companies pay you to offer you 3-month long software development training for no work.
I seriously don't buy that your parent needs any justification about pursuing coding as a profession.
It's kind of disappointing that you have to make money right now for them to realize that you're learning a skill that pays extremely well in the long term…
> Access to computers—and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works—should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!
Hacker News is a prime example of the Hacker Ethic. Wrapping Hacker News and putting ads on it is the opposite.
Building useful software and selling it is fine, but following the Hacker Ethic would mean improving open source libraries that you consume or maybe open sourcing components of your software.
Microsoft has been a prime example lately - developing .NET and many other libraries in the open these days. They are still making plenty of money but are also winning the approval of developers who like open source.
Dang has said as much.