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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7314434
> For all the intellectual firepower of people in the tech community, there is a curious strain of anti-intellectualism that comes forth in projects like this; an eagerness to discount the expertise of people who have studied a subject for their entire lives, just because they weren't CS majors. It's like trying to send a man to the moon without working with any aerospace engineers. I honestly do not understand it.
Best HN comeback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
I remember a couple of techies sitting around, watching the thread, and the guy pissed us off to the point where I just couldn't keep my mouth shut.
This one, about recursion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14396692
Best HN comeback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
Not only that. But that same thread goes into his idea being the same as Dropbox, both being startup ideas at the time. Seems the latter won that comeback though.
anamax 3190 days ago | on: So, you're gonna code the whole thing, do the serv...
If they don't have the money to pay you, you're not an employee, you're a founder and you get the same deal that they get.
If they balk, suggest that they find another code monkey while you find another biz monkey and let the market decide who ends up with the bananas.
Excerpt: JavaScript is the XML, the Yugo, the Therac-25 of programming languages. The sheer amount of human effort which has been expended working around its fundamental flaws instead of advancing the development of mankind is astounding. The fact that people would take this paragon of wasted opportunity and use it on the server side, where there are so many better alternatives (to a first approximation, every other programming language ever used), is utterly appalling.
This one from 'How To Die With No Regrets'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
The thing I liked about the thread is also has Drew Houston from Dropbox talking about his then startup idea.
energy systems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8386603
delayed IPOs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13831214
desktop v mobile https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7182345
free fruit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10728601
role of self-experimentation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13965307
JumpCrisscross's comment about perfectionism being bad https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12729864 and pg with a similar thought https://twitter.com/paulg/status/855342574063800320