Thanks for explaining America, captain obvious. I said "What's funny" because it's supposed to be a joke.
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By the way, your average karma is kind of low, you might want to try bringing that up. You've had over a year with this account!
On a related note, I recently at at 5 guys and it was 2x as expensive and about 1/2 as good as in-n-out. Anyone who says it's better is absolutely nuts. They expanded too fast.
Wish I had realized this 10 years ago.
I'd offer a small edit on the premise and say that it isn't necessarily a willingness to be poor, but a willingness to go broke for your convictions that is important. Being poor/impoverished is a mindset, being broke is a temporary condition.
Somewhat tangentially related is the derivatives trader mindset which I have been reading about recently.
When I deliberately dis-engage in uninteresting conversations with "smart people" I can see them judging me immediately. Sometimes I just don't want to faux-argue over inconsequential bullshit. The older you get the better you get at letting your ego go in these kinds of meaningless contests.
Oh, come on.
Web apps don't need legal structure, a brand identity, customers, revenues, profits, hell they don't even need a name.
For me, personally, I would not have met these people if I had not gone to school. I would have been sitting in a cubicle programming computers for the next 4 years, severely handicapping my social and professional life. I also probably would not have learned the basics of Econonomics, something that fascinates me almost as much as technology. I also didn't spend much time doing schoolwork, but I certainly didn't get A's like some others here. I actually was on academic probation twice and spend most of my time socializing.
It doesn't even have to be a niche. If you provide basic infrastructure stuff (email, hosting, IT, whatever) there's billions to be made on business customers.
It really just comes down to marketing and sales prowess and the know-how to deliver stuff for less than the big players.
No, the way to make the pain stop (and when I say pain, I mean hours and hours of downtime) is to work with a real managed hosting vendor that cares about your servers and your business, and to move your mission critical software off of commodity shared servers where it will get lost in a sea of customers, none of whom have an account executive, a sales representative, or assigned engineers who understands your stack from top to bottom.
Cloud services are great for some things like elastic computing power and rapid prototyping, but having my business' front door hosted on a service where I can't even call someone up in case of trouble seems like absolute craziness. I mean, how would you even implement a disaster recovery/business continuity solution when all the damn servers are in one building?
URL structure will give you clues sometimes.
It's the hedge fund vs. web startup mentality :)