https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4509934
How Do I Start Being a Consultant?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4245960
Bane's rule, you don't understand a distributed computing problem until you can get it to fit on a single machine first.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739
Edit: Thanks detaro for telling me how to link to individual comments.
Click on the timestamp next to the username
The "going deep" post reminds me of the "programmer-archaeologist" role from the Vernor Vinge novels, where a long-running spacefaring civilisation has built up a very large amount of code on which their magic nanotech runs. This provides opportunities to dig for long-forgotten things .. or exploits.
> That reminds me of Peter Thiel's Venn diagram of 'Sounds like a bad idea' and 'Is a good idea'. It's a pretty slim area in the middle and the 'Sounds like' part means it's hard to know until you do it.
Also, wow, all those comments of people plugging their level 3 and above startups did NOT age well