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Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?
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Re: Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
I asked about clojure and it didn't find anything. Here there is a thread on HN that asks the same: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3690026 . PG, in case you are still around here, which is your take on clojure?
It's the Lisp dialect I usually recommend.
Thanks!
Re: Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?
#53Actually, this could be the template for something extremely popular. It could be called WW_S, the _ would be anyone in the family (or anyone in the world).
For a family where the father has gone away on an extended business trip, WW_S would scour the Internet and local files for anything the father said. Then, when the children want to get Dad's wisdom, they can by typing in or asking a question - even if he's not physically available.
What about a famous author or celeb? WW_S would spider up everything he or she has said and through a prediction algorithm formulate answers to questions, much like WWPGD.
Heck, you could even do it with characters like Sparky the Bear or Santa Claus. Basically, white label it.
I'm in a rush and typing this out on my phone, but hopefully you've got the gist.
Re: Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?
#54pg would probably use logic, experience and a little bit of gut feel to figure out the best way to solve an issue, not refer to a single source of someone else's writings. Stop worshiping the man like he is a god. His essays are not bible scripture, and in many areas they would actually be the completely wrong course of action to take. pg's thoughts are only one segment of knowledge that a person should be receiving…
I'm in agreement. (Except the part about using bible scripture as a point of reference.)
"Stop worshiping the man like he is a god. His essays are not bible scripture"
People worship bible scripture not because it's 100% right or even 25% right but because they've been brainwashed into believing it is worth believing in. Same as apparently, from what I can tell, people seem to be doing with PG. This reminds me of some of the people over at AVC.com thinking Fred Wilson should run for political office (an idea that he quickly shot down). I mean seriously we already have enough of that. Someone excels in one area and others seemed to think that they can do anything and can do no wrong.
"You can usually tell when you've hit on an uncomfortable truth"
Agree with that as well. But to be complete, somebody who makes the comment that you did could also be jealous, or frustrated as well. (Pointing out other possibilities. I mean there is a type of personality that loves to get any attention and then there is the type of personality that would feel uncomfortable with excess attention that they don't feel is entirely deserved. If you are reading this PG I hope you understand that you appear to like this attention. Or, you don't, but it serves your greater goals to be a demi god. Such problems it presents, to be so successful. We should all have to deal with people fawning over us.
But I don't think that's the case here.
I think you are just finding the people who are doing the worshiping naive in their thinking and it's getting a little irritating to some HNers.
Re: Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why are you assuming they are worshiping him? They simply made a fun little app to search through his essays. Your comment seems rather ill-tempered and misplaced. Did you even try the app out or are you just on a rant about how you don't think people should make decisions based on the information of a single source? Either way, I'm not sure how your comment is a helpful contribution to this particular link.
I really think HN has a habit of taking everything uber-seriously and has a hard time accepting things as light-hearted jokes or fun projects.
Well, let's say you did the same "light-hearted" thing with respect to a girl that you were interested in? I would guess that some would call that stalking. Let's say you did the same thing, indexing all of patio11 or edw or tpatcek comments. Wouldn't someone assume that there was some weird fixation going on there or an attempt to curry favor?
Re: Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?
#56It appears to work. I asked it where to go for lunch, and the first reference to lunch it found was Oren's Hummus.
I asked about clojure and it didn't find anything. Here there is a thread on HN that asks the same: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3690026 . PG, in case you are still around here, which is your take on clojure?
The site only indexes comments by pg, I guess in the 1000 comments that have been indexed, none of them talk mention clojure. I'm trying to hack around ThriftDB's search api [1] limitation of 1000 items [2] by sorting by different possible terms. The site currently only captures the top 1000 of the roughly ~8000 comments that pg has written (by score).
If anyone has a solution to this, please let me know!
[1]: http://www.hnsearch.com/api
[2]: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/hnsearch...
Re: Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I asked about clojure and it didn't find anything. Here there is a thread on HN that asks the same: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3690026 . PG, in case you are still around here, which is your take on clojure?
It's the Lisp dialect I usually recommend.
Have your views on Common Lisp changed, since you wrote your ANSI Common Lisp?
Re: Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?
#58I was very disappointed to find no advice on hats, badgers or zombies.
Re: Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?
#59Actually, this could be the template for something extremely popular. It could be called WW_S, the _ would be anyone in the family (or anyone in the world). For a family where the father has gone away on an extended business trip, WW_S would scour the Internet and local files for anything the father said. Then, when the children want to get Dad's wisdom, they can by typing in or asking a question - even if he's not p…
This will only work if we document almost everything we do online. A large part of our life and thought process is still offline, so the answer to "what would X do" will most likely be extremely dependent on the situation and context X was in when he/she made that statement.
Re: Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?
#60The naming, though may sound cheesy to some, is a great marketing tactic to get noticed. You can of course think of > person here.
But if you want people to notice & get some traction, knowing where and who would notice it makes a huge difference. I would say it is a nice marketing hack.
@aakil great job guys. :)
EDIT: This got covered in techcrunch!