As a hiring manager / lead for technical positions, this is fine, and often proposed by the 'resume experts'. Where I get incensed is these statements where the original design/architecture that this individual was responsible for was the problem, and they are just bringing something back to baseline where it should have started. I see this ALL THE TIME. And this is with grace towards changing requirements etc. And not just on resumes, I see this on internal corp. accomplishments, and typically the higher the level the more the savings and more the unnecessary waste was to start. For example, CFO once claimed like $20mm in savings because he decommed a financial module that they bought and NEVER used and NEVER needed - this guy crushed is bonus this year.
Never a fan of these 'click bait' headlines, and surprised it made it this high in hacker news. We get the 'premise', Mr. Money Mustache has been preaching similar for years, but these numbers are just not realistic. You need money to buy the house, maintain it, clothes, healthcare, NY is going to jack your taxes up, etc. and more, as all the folks have mentioned here.
Can some folks live more frugally, for sure, but this is unrealistic.
Dealing with this right now as a consultant. Also a 'semi-govt' company, with much more in annual revenue than in this article, running a highly critical production workload, and is having problems with a ESOL version Open Source software - that they are scared to touch/upgrade, and that is available in a fully up-to-date version, for purchase, with support etc., and indirectly asking us to support it, by essentially pawning off any and all changes related to said SW to me. Well, I recommended the upgrade path (to a current/supported and paid version) and I stopped making any changes to that component. They are still hemming an hawing, its unbelievable.
How can any trade be made and not know 'who' made the trade? Doesn't every trading account need to be registered/identified in some manner? KYC right? At a minimum the account holder would want to transfer funds to/from account....
I can't even buy sudafed without 3 forms of ID, yet we have 'invisible' traders of millions of dollars?
"Yet I think Tim’s single review was possibly as valuable as all the others combined".... and yet you don't even tell us anything about his review.... disappointing esp. considering the screenshots/level of details on other input.
On a different note, def. feel you pain regarding the copyeditor.
His review contains comments annotated on a book of 300+ pages. I don't think it would have made this section any better by deep diving into his review.
