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So lots of people in this thread that realize vcs are supercilious talking heads. Why does Paul graham, the blogger who claimed Microsoft is dead and that lisp , which btw is untyped and slower than maybe even Go, is a competitive badvantage get admiration? Is it just by the wannabes?
So lots of people in this thread that realize vcs are supercilious talking heads. Why does Paul graham, the blogger who claimed Microsoft is dead and that lisp , which btw is untyped and slower than maybe even Go, is a competitive badvantage get admiration? Is it just by the wannabes?
Lisp was a competitive advantage for the company that made him rich in the mid-90s. He wouldn't claim it is for a new company starting out now. He later wrote that Python and Ruby were a competitive advantage. They wouldn't be now. But other languages/platforms are. His claim wasn't that Lisp is and will always be a competitive advantage, but that at any time, there is a powerful platform available that few developer…
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Lisp was a competitive advantage for the company that made him rich in the mid-90s. He wouldn't claim it is for a new company starting out now. He later wrote that Python and Ruby were a competitive advantage. They wouldn't be now. But other languages/platforms are. His claim wasn't that Lisp is and will always be a competitive advantage, but that at any time, there is a powerful platform available that few developer…
You do realize that Microsoft is the company that holds the Guinness record for fastest selling electronic product and that was after the smuglord "essay". Ms cloud is 2nd after aws and fast catching up. You're an ignormaous clearly.
Azure is popular due to all the corporates moving their application hosting and data storage off on-premise servers to the cloud.
Neither of these products/platforms has led/is leading to whole new categories of products/companies being created, which is the specific context in which PG was suggesting MS was "dead".
FWIW, arguably the biggest game-changing innovation in gaming in the past 10 years has been Twitch, which was a YC company.
> smuglord
> ignormaous
You don't need insults if you have solid points.
So lots of people in this thread that realize vcs are supercilious talking heads. Why does Paul graham, the blogger who claimed Microsoft is dead and that lisp , which btw is untyped and slower than maybe even Go, is a competitive badvantage get admiration? Is it just by the wannabes?
Source your quotes
"With a powerful narrative, you should be able to go from raw materials to a launch ready vehicle in 60 days." If this isn't the best sign of the times, idk what is. Edit: This one killed me "VC is hard. This is a great fucking deck..."
Hmm, that's weird. I got the exact same phrases. Are these actually bot-generated in real-time or is the app just pulling from a set?
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Agreed. Most VCs are just that, useless sacks of breathing meat. For that reason, I've avoided them. Even during parties, I (unfairly) dismiss someone the moment I find out they are a VC and just invested in ...(insert famous tech here)... Based on personal experience, VCs are statistically more likely having a conversation with you thinking they are better than you the whole time (and therefore knows better). Not al…
> thinking they are better than you the whole time Do people really think like that? This sounds like possibly a personal insecurity. I don’t know too many grown adults who think things like “I am better than you”. Better at what? making money? Smarter? Getting dates? I don’t know... maybe I’m just too optimistic but all of the VCs I’ve met have been super nice.
The alternative being that you happen to be in an environment/bubble where no one happens to think like that. I guess it's possible, but also unlikely.