supermw's comments

This is really the only viable way to support FOSS. Considering the amount of money some people make in tech, they should allocate a % of that to donating to open source projects each year. But no, nothing’s going to change the way we live because we can always take but never give, and now things are changing for the worse.

I could keep throwing money into my stock portfolio, did I make it better, or worse?

The only metric that matters here is ROI.

Did YC increases its ROI and produce a higher percentage of successful startups during Sam Altman’s time? This is the question to answer, and the one upon which he shall be judged. Everything else is pure vanity.

Don’t these cases come up all the time and nothing ever comes from it?

Also, it’s hard to see sellers as getting ripped off when the buyers agent fee is factored into the price. If there was no fee included you would expect to see a drop in price, and this is what happens when a buyer purchases a home without an agent.

The amount of years you've been alive divided by the life expectancy of your country.

I don't think about those people, here's why:

1) No one is entitled to a career in cybersecurity or reverse engineering, no matter how poor or sad your origin story is.

2) There are always lucrative opportunities in this world that are out of reach by people who lack some resource. In this case, it's money, but it could easily just have been something like popularity, beauty, connections, location, or even plain old brains.

I always wanted to be popular and loved by many, but I came to accept long ago that it just wasn't going to happen. I'm an introvert, I keep to myself a lot, don't get much pleasure from social outings, and at the end of the day people just don't give a fuck about weird people like that. So I just try to enjoy the gifts I do have and the things that come naturally to me. We all have to accept the realities of our lives at some point, even the poor.

If you are using these tools you are either defending systems from threats or breaking into systems and making money through illegal activities. There is not really any other useful work you can do with these tools.

I don’t see how the perspective is odd. Having tools like Core Impact and the knowledge of how to use them well can propel you to a six figure income easily. On top of that these tools are also business expenses you can use for tax write offs.

They are certainly worth the investment. The only people who see the price as steep are those who cannot see any viable way to make a decent ROI off them.

IDA Pro is not expensive at all for serious professionals in the field. Other common software in the industry costs way more. Nessus is $2k a year, Metasploit like $1500 to $15000, and Core Impact is $30k and up.

If this is expensive to you, then it’s not for you. This is for people who are making real money with these tools, not hobbyists dicking around.

God forbid anyone make a profit?

I’m not sure what your point is, prices are set by what the market is willing to pay. Anything else is not sustainable.

You are not entitled to buy houses wherever you want for whatever price you think is good. Certainly not in the Bay Area.

Do you stand on anti-fatigue mats?

Not sure how I'd feel about someone writing a piece of code in response to the death of their young child. Equally terrifying.

I don't think this discussion will be as interesting as people think.

When a game or piece of software you write is shit, you know it's shit, unless you are completely delusional. Thus once it's actually released you'll probably feel some relief that at least it's finally done and you can move on with your life, putting it behind you. Negative reviews aren't a surprise, they are expected. And in large companies there must be some satisfaction being able to say "I told you so" to fools who thought otherwise.

I think it'd be more interesting to find out what it's like being a small indie developer who banks it all on one game they've been working on for years, and then when it finally releases it's mediocre and mostly ignored, making little to no money.

I highly recommend that everyone make a life progress bar, and look at it everyday.

Why build more housing if people will continue to happily pay these prices to live here? The goal isn't to cram as many people as possible in a single pcity.

Can I ask what your back problems are and how they started? Were they from doing the squats and deadlifts themselves or other injuries? I see plenty of people past their 40s still doing squats and deadlifts so it's not like there is a general age limit it seems.

Alcohol should never be used for stress, only for social lubrication.

There's better ways to deal with stress. Pump iron, or go for a run. 30-60 minutes of running should give you a reset.

We're happily married now.

Not unfortunate. The only fitting end for people like this is to be taken down by the very mobs they created.

There have always been clear warnings about why mob justice is bad, but some people just cannot resist its allure: The fame, the righteousness, the feeling of being on some moral high ground where no one can touch you.

It's all so glamorous... until it all turns against you. Once the tide turns there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

Like many I always thought I wouldn't buy a diamond, I saw no reason to buy what was basically just a rock (to me), but when I proposed to my girlfriend, since the ring didn't have a diamond, she said no.

Martial Arts. Any decent school you go to will probably have men and women of all ages, sizes, races and social backgrounds. Many schools will also do "community events" which provide opportunities for families to get involved more.

What is the point of these opinion pieces? Why should we care about what someone at New York Times says over any other person? These kind of articles must be made simply to drive traffic and stimulate rage. It will be interpreted as just another coastal elite telling Americans they should aspire to live and die in a cold steel and concrete box partitioned out in a shared building with neighbors on all sides pestering them and a condo HOA breathing down their backs. I guess it worked.