Adjust yourself properly

If you want to find the most stingy groups on this planet, then certainly non- programmers must go. There is a joke is to find the object to find programmers: "earn more, spend less; often overtime, dead early."

Before starting a business, I am also a stingy Lord. The company with a notebook, you will never buy. A N73 with three years if it is not lost will not buy a new one. Things will always be enough just fine, whether or not technically outdated; in order to find a software sn, I can spend an hour, take the trouble to register a forum with sn, save points to download, although the software's genuine price Dozens of yuan.

Fortunately, this stingy effort finally got a change in 11 years.

Early in my life for the first time in my life I bought a notebook, or a 13 "macbook pro.

The end of 11 I bought my first iphone, iphone4s.

At the beginning of 12, I officially bought myself a micro plan at http://github.com, at $ 7 per month.

In the second half of 12, I bought 15 "new macbook pro.

12 years I bought several genuine software.

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In the midst of these ongoing acquisitions, I came to the discovery that the programmer's time is precious and that as long as there are products and services that can be purchased at a reasonable price for efficiency, do not spend time looking for free or cheap alternatives.

Instead of using a PC or a 13 "mbp, I should have used 15" mbp for software development.

I should buy github instead of building gitosis myself.

I should buy good kindle version of English books, rather than hard to search on the major network disk corresponding piracy pdf.

I should buy favored css templates on wrapbootstrap, instead of designing it myself, or searching on google for a good, free template.

I should even buy digitalocean vm instead of vagrant on my own machine - just for faster apt-get speed.

However, many people still do not understand this truth. I try to spread this theory to the people around me, many people's reaction is: you are really rich!

In fact, this is not really much money and money. This is a behavioral habit, the only way for programmers to shift their time toward higher value-added things.

What is high value-added things? Different people. In my opinion, reading books, writing essays, attending events and parties, and even sitting in the middle of thinking about life, are worth more than trying to find a free resource online.

If you spend two hundred bucks, you can buy a two-hour study video recorded by a real-world master of some software. You do not buy it? Self-study is fine, but you have to spend several times more, and Not necessarily to see the video can reach the height.

I guess you still will not buy. Because you are also being abused in the concept of "free content on the Internet."

If you pay 10 hours for a self-taught free document to reach the same height, then this means that as long as your hourly salary exceeds 20 yuan, you should buy it. What does it mean for an hourly wage of 20 yuan? It means a monthly income of about 3,500 yuan (20 x 8 x 21.5) - mostly programmers worth several times this.

If you look at this spending from another perspective, consider it as an investment in your personal skills and are you willing to vote?