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		larrys on March 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why the cloud isn't for your startup "Sure I could learn how to do sysadmin stuff. But for some people and maybe me, the opportunity costs outweight the economic benefits" You're exactly right. Sure, sysadmin stuff isn't hard. But it does take time to learn. Additionally, over time you learn things from experience when things go wrong. And when things go wrong without experience you will be scrambling to even know where to start to get things back up again. As anyone will tell you that has been doing this for many years (I have) you learn new things every day. Just like a Doctor does and a lawyer does. (Even though both of those professions think they know it all out of school, they don't.)

talaketu on March 6, 2012 [–]

Also, there is the Paul Samuelson parable about the best lawyer in town who is also the best typist, and whether she should do her own typing.

gridspy on March 6, 2012 | [–]

Yes she should, if the alternative is dictation.

It might be easier to set up your own servers than it is to manage the communication overhead of a third-party sysadmin

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