californiaguy

Losers hate winners, no matter the context.

Kids these days...

Let's not kid ourselves here, inter-racial adoption is a totally horseshit dataset for this kind of analysis. There are way too many psychological variables and societal barriers that are unaccounted for.

If you're a unix dev and want to be taken seriously, use Emacs or vim.

Otherwise people will just laugh at you behind your back. Or to your face.

Maybe the problem is I just hate bloggers in general.

FYI, Earth Class Mail was featured on MOJO network's "Startup Junkies" mini series.

> Let's face it: scientists, engineers, hackers are the tip of the spear, the guys taking all the bullets and all the risks

I used to think this until I started running a business. Business people take the risks. There's nothing stopping a hacker from being a business person and often times there is great overlap, but let's be clear about the semantics here: someone puts up the money for an engineer to do his job, and that's the business person.

Business people fail constantly and with no fanfare. You may not realize this because you're a hacker that's only worked for successful businesses where the management has tricked you into thinking you are responsible for the success of the business, but I assure you that is naive and you are being manipulated successfully because your business people are smarter than you.

I don't give a shit about using my real account to speak my mind, I have no idea why people on HN are afraid of that.

If I had my way the names seth godin, tim ferriss, derek sivers, or any number of these quack bloggers would never show up in HN. I come here for business and technology, not bullshit self-help articles on agenda-having auto-promotional blogs.

The only thing rackspace does well is sales and marketing. Everything else is industry norm or less. They've fucked up maintenance windows and installed wrong hardware more times than I can remember.

Judging from how often software breaks, not very.

Money doesn't make me happy, but I'll tell you what makes me unhappy: working on salary for some fucking asshole.

Therefore, money makes me not unhappy. Which is good enough for me.