Your recollection of the story is a little off, but it's close. The
story you mentioned was from 5 years ago (2009). It was mentioned in a
blog post in 20011 [1] and again in a podcast in 2012 [2]. It involved
Patrick McKenzie (a.k.a "patio11" [3]) and Thomas Ptacek (a.k.a "tptacek"
[4]). They are two of the most prolific contributors to HN [5].
Needless to say, times change. At present, Patrick's consulting rate is
somewhere north of $30K a week [6], and dare I say it, I'm sure he's
worth every penny of it for the right companies.
I knew it was a prolific HN poster but alas I could not remember who. Given that the blog post was from 2011 I think that's forgivable! Well, maybe. Thanks for the links.
Needless to say, times change. At present, Patrick's consulting rate is somewhere north of $30K a week [6], and dare I say it, I'm sure he's worth every penny of it for the right companies.
[1] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/07/08/business-psychology/ [2] http://productpeople.tv/2012/12/26/patio11-part2/ [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders [6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8574541