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• Paul Graham (Score:1)

  by slanning (5049)

  So we either get a useful new language, or we get a Paul Graham with better insight on his areas of fallibility and (hopefully) greater humility and less of a tendency to make bold untestable statements.

  Doubt it. It seemed to me that he was full of himself, or had a lot of time on his hands, because he made a million dollars a few years ago.
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Alias (5735)

    So we either get a useful new language, or we get a Paul Graham with better insight on his areas of fallibility and (hopefully) greater humility and less of a tendency to make bold untestable statements.

    Doubt it. It seemed to me that he was full of himself, or had a lot of time on his hands, because he made a million dollars a few years ago.

    > It seemed to me that he was full of himself, or had a lot of time on his hands, because he made a million dollars a few years ago.
    
    That gives him some leeway to talk about making a million dollars, but then he's only done it once as far as I'm aware (could be wrong).
    
    If he can predict (invest) in a new startup and get it right again, then I get impressed.
    
    I still think it doesn't qualify him to talk about analogies between hackers and painters (unless he's a painter too, which he may well be).
    • Re:Paul Graham (Score:2)

      by Ovid (2709) on 2008.02.01 3:04 (#60824) Homepage Journal

      Methinks you need to read this [idlewords.com].

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