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wunnaon Ask HN: What quote most inspires you?

Dreams are not what happen when you sleep, dreams should be what keep you from sleeping. - (not sure who said this)

wunnaon Ask HN: What would you tell your 16-year-old self?

Be yourself, everyone else is taken - Oscar Wilde

IMO no truer words have been spoken. Much unpleasantness would have been avoided had I known . HTH.

wunnaon The Bogus High-Tech Worker Shortage

I was responding to an oversimplified and vacuous argument, that naively assumes that supply and demand are the only two market forces. You ought to read up on the field of System Dynamics. I am not "cherrypicking", but you are over simplifying.

wunnaon The Bogus High-Tech Worker Shortage

If you were an entrepreneur you would understand....

wunnaon The Bogus High-Tech Worker Shortage

Implicit in that statement is a shortage. If programmers have choices, by definition implies more demand, less supply. You contradict yourself!

wunnaon The Bogus High-Tech Worker Shortage

define "enough". Easy enough for you to pontificate, if you know better, start your own company and pay everyone million $ salaries. What are you waiting for?

p.s. I am an entrepreneur and have had significant hiring challenges for my company. So not spewing out stock lines from Lou Dobbs and his ilk.

wunnaon The Bogus High-Tech Worker Shortage

well, there is no infinite elasticity of supply & demand.

wunnaon The Bogus High-Tech Worker Shortage

what is that these people do, that they turn down even 125K,150K,200K - according to you - "low salaries"? McD? or Welfare paying higher?

wunnaon The Bogus High-Tech Worker Shortage

So go do it! be the change you want! You know, if you want something done right, DIY! Setup a noble, patriotic company that only hires "Americans" and pay then $250K or $1MM salaries... Go ahead!

Stop whining and enough already with the arm-chair generalship, easiest thing in the world.

Remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpkJZuxSayo

wunnaon The Bogus High-Tech Worker Shortage

The stock response such arguments is: "there is no shortage of programmers, just a shortage of programmers at a given salary". Yeah right!

"There is no poverty. just shortage of people with money"

wunnaon The Bogus High-Tech Worker Shortage

pg - I would urge you to write an essay or article in some prominent magazine. Someone of your stature voicing is critical to the high-tech industry.

wunnaon The challenge of geocoding Indian addresses

PM me if you need ideas....I have done similar things and could point you in the right direction.

wunnaon Show HN: Assistant.io - The easiest way to schedule meetings

The UI/IX is a bit clunky IMHO - the wizard interface is meh. Lookup http://timebridge.com/ their UI seems more intuitive.

wunnaon Ask HN: Why don't companies open-source the source code of their old products?

These are all very good reasons posted below, but I believe that the most important reason is corporate mindset . The powers that be - mostly old-hands- view software as physical "property" and unwilling to let go. Sharing it is seen as sacrilege! Also is seen as providing competitors a peek under the kimono and giving them an advantage.

It is the same reason that many pharmas don't release the data of their failed trials. How much better the world would have been had we had a commons of the failed drug trials. sigh

wunnaon Ask HN: I am 35 years old with no degree – can I still program?

Knowledge >>>>>..n Degree

wunnaon Ask HN: Entrepreneurship is ________.

"...jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down" - unknown

(not sure who said this, if you know pls comment so this can be duly attributed.)

wunnaon Ask HN: Which computer/laptop do you use?

Dell XPS 16GB (W7)

wunnaon Show HN: Here is our first app after 6 months working on it. What do you think?

The first few seconds I don;t know what the app does....more importantly how it is different from the bazillion other place rating apps.

wunnaon Ask PG: Do you invest in any startups outside of YC?

Is there any other option for my (slightly) grown-up startup with a ton of traction to come pitch you?

p.s I did read the YC FAQ etc. But hoping that might be just the "official line" :-)

wunnaon Ask HN: Solr Hosting in the cloud

Thanks, have you used it? The limits seem a bit small....or is it more cost-effective that AWS?