@Gowtham95india Or, if you're not a millionaire after 10 years but still make a decent living you might have a stable business.

Not all startups turn into multi-million revenue generators : I've seen a lot of neat ideas scrapped because they weren't "profitable enough" on the SV startup scale.

You went wrong at "contract for an insurance company".

The frustrating part: there seems to be a lot of great engineering work left to be done that is either on the slow walk, or being left to die on the vine.

The JSR process seems to have also devolved into a shitshow.

Meh - real neck beards stick with only BSD and revel in tales of System V.

The corporate dorks haven't migrated from HP-UX or AIX.

The SunOS crowd has collapsed into a state of self-pity.

Ssshh.. don't tell the Slashdot users.

Tell the kids and their bloated Angular downloads to fuck off.

Except a Q&A here should allow swears.

Drunk bastion-hosting?

Only thought: "LOL"

Actually:

Halfway decent method of ten lines: "WTF, Bob? How can you possibly think ___ is a good idea!?!"

2000 line tire fire of a single class: "Well, that's great. Thanks for the hard work, Dave."

Fortunately, there are project management software products that no one bitches about.

... said no one, ever.

Or, "We want someone who is a super rockstar with umpteen years of experience that wants to work for $30,000/yr. in the Bay Area."

Someone who understands that programs eventually use things like CPU and memory, and that no amount of hot sexy language/library is going to change that.

Oh, and that while REST APIs are neat, there is no magic internet sauce that make an HTTP request over the public internet trustworthy of a blocking thread.

If you are talking to cloud providers that want freaking contracts, run. Don't walk, just run.

Turns out, you shouldn't run a business like a fucking cell phone bill.