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Paul Graham (Score:1)
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.
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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:1)
You know that that’s exactly what he’s been doing for the past couple of years, right? He’s been leading a startup incubator company called Y Combinator that have funded a couple of suitably successful (and of course, as is the nature of such things, a correspondingly large array of failed startups).
He is doing – it’s just that his sphere of “doing” is different from the day-to-day hacking you and I dwell in.
I still think he talks a lot about topics where he is probably less qualified than he seems to think, but he’s not all talk. Which, actually, makes the whole thing a lot more complicated, because one needs to be much more careful about when to be dismissive and when to examine his claims seriously – if he was (mostly) just a blowhard or just an expert, this would all be much easier.
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