Who is your hero?
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Who is your hero?
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Re: Who is your hero?
#2I think a good question on HN would be to whom here is pg not a hero in some way? Isn't that why people want to draft him for Congress / get his advice on everything / build statues of him out of old sim cards?
That being said, I did enjoy reading "I like the way Paul Graham quacks". And I do wonder if there are other people in the startup/investor community who have the same positive cred as pg.
Re: Who is your hero?
#3I think a good question on HN would be to whom here is pg not a hero in some way? Isn't that why people want to draft him for Congress / get his advice on everything / build statues of him out of old sim cards? That being said, I did enjoy reading "I like the way Paul Graham quacks". And I do wonder if there are other people in the startup/investor community who have the same positive cred as pg.
Plenty of HN people are 'pg skeptics (it's getting harder to be skeptical about YC, though).
Here's a manifesto:
Re: Who is your hero?
#4I think a good question on HN would be to whom here is pg not a hero in some way? Isn't that why people want to draft him for Congress / get his advice on everything / build statues of him out of old sim cards? That being said, I did enjoy reading "I like the way Paul Graham quacks". And I do wonder if there are other people in the startup/investor community who have the same positive cred as pg.
"old sim cards"?
There are people who go through those things enough to make even a stick figure? I've been using the same sim card for the past 4 or 5 years.
Re: Who is your hero?
#5I think a good question on HN would be to whom here is pg not a hero in some way? Isn't that why people want to draft him for Congress / get his advice on everything / build statues of him out of old sim cards? That being said, I did enjoy reading "I like the way Paul Graham quacks". And I do wonder if there are other people in the startup/investor community who have the same positive cred as pg.
"old sim cards"? There are people who go through those things enough to make even a stick figure? I've been using the same sim card for the past 4 or 5 years.
I had to change once in the last 10 years as apparently the standard (guessing file size) changed and new phones wouldn't support my old sim.
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#6HN lurkers such as dlsspy, pquerna, and zedshaw are my hacker heroes.
They need not introductions but I suppose links won't hurt:
http://hackerne.ws/user?id=dlsspy
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#7Thomas Jefferson would be pretty close to the ideal hacker. (if others disagree I'm interested in why as I have very little opposing data so far).
Re: Who is your hero?
#8HN lurkers such as dlsspy, pquerna, and zedshaw are my hacker heroes. They need not introductions but I suppose links won't hurt: http://hackerne.ws/user?id=dlsspy http://hackerne.ws/user?id=pquerna http://hackerne.ws/user?id=zedshaw
Interesting, I don't know of these except zed shaw from article titles (catchup time).
I do know wheels and patio911 are always a good read though
Re: Who is your hero?
#9HN lurkers such as dlsspy, pquerna, and zedshaw are my hacker heroes. They need not introductions but I suppose links won't hurt: http://hackerne.ws/user?id=dlsspy http://hackerne.ws/user?id=pquerna http://hackerne.ws/user?id=zedshaw
Interesting, I don't know of these except zed shaw from article titles (catchup time). I do know wheels and patio911 are always a good read though
strangely enough, I run into wheels a lot in #startups but rarely see his comments.
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#10Norman Borlaug