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Re: Ask HN: How Many of You Are Like Me?

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Post by mikecarlucci »

pasbesoin wrote: post #15

I try to comment when I have something of value to add, that has not already been contributed. Mostly information. To a self-imposed limited extend, a bit of anecdote and/or humor. [1] The latter usually only in accompaniment to information. I support the original attitude that pervaded HN, that karma is about surfacing interesting information. It's not personal, nor should it be. Personal relationships do develop he…

I agree. If I feel I can add something of value to the discussion, including occasional humor, I'll chime in.

I call it the Mr. Ed principle.

Re: Ask HN: How Many of You Are Like Me?

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Post by brianmckenzie »

PaulHoule wrote: post #92
zackattack wrote: post #78

Are you serious ? "I've learned more from the community than I did during my $100,000 MBA from the University of Chicago." You weren't out meeting people and making awesome connections? You didn't build relationships with the brilliant professors? I am shocked by the content of your post. What have you learned on Hacker News? And then what did you learn at Booth? I would pay to read that write-up.

Not everybody gets the most out of being at an Elite university. My family comes from an ethnically Catholic background, you know, Italian, Polish, French-Canadian, many of the people who came to the U.S. fleeing the aftermath of WWII, members of the surplus humanity whose livelihood was destroyed by the mechanization of agriculture in the early half of the twentieth century. In the 1960's and 1970's, in a time when…

I don't know if this is still the case, but Catholics were the single largest religious group at the University of Chicago when I was there in the late 90's.

Re: Ask HN: How Many of You Are Like Me?

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Post by mryall »

JonnieCache wrote: post #40
EwanG wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the off chance you're serious (and I know folks sometimes have a hard time differentiating between very subtle sarcasm and true newbiehood): You are being directed to go to Google (or other search engine of choice) and enter the phrase "Cone of Learning". You should get a result similar to the following: http://www.google.com/search?q=cone+of+learning&ie=utf-8...

To be fair it is possible to parse google as a noun in that sentence. It reads a bit like an item in an RPG. Google Cone of Haste +3

> Google Cone of Haste +3

Parsing it as a verb, I followed your instructions and this comment is already the top hit for "Cone of Haste" on Google.

Re: Ask HN: How Many of You Are Like Me?

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Post by seanMeverett »

zackattack wrote: post #78

Are you serious ? "I've learned more from the community than I did during my $100,000 MBA from the University of Chicago." You weren't out meeting people and making awesome connections? You didn't build relationships with the brilliant professors? I am shocked by the content of your post. What have you learned on Hacker News? And then what did you learn at Booth? I would pay to read that write-up.

My issue with the formal academic training is that it teaches you to be an academic, not a practitioner. I feel that if you want to learn how to start a company, then start a company. If you want to become an academic, go to school. Now, I'm probably a rare case because I grew up in management consulting and have been an entrepreneur since I was 8 years old so I feel that it's not the education that's important, it's what you do with it that is.

To that end, I love seeing folks in this HN startup "tribe" have an idea that others may think is silly, pour their blood, sweat, and tears into and maybe it works out. Or maybe it doesn't.

I've always said, "we'll either all end up in a mansion or a cardboard box, but we'll have a blast along the way". That pretty much sums up what it means to be an entrepreneur to me. Meet like minded people trying to make the world a better place, and maybe make a little cash along the way.

So kudos to all of us kids playing around in the sandbox trying to create a bit of the future, today.

Re: Ask HN: How Many of You Are Like Me?

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Post by seanMeverett »

noig3 wrote: post #24

Hey Sean. Are you in San Francisco? Do you want to start a company? I will be moving to San Jose in a couple of weeks. Maybe we could just hang out. I could use some friends.

Hi there and thanks for the shout out! Unfortunately, I'm knee deep in my own startup these days but would love to chat offline anytime and throw ideas around. You can link through to my profile, feel free to shoot me an email.

Re: Ask HN: How Many of You Are Like Me?

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Post by pschlump »

I almost never comment - it takes time and I am busy. I am doing another startup after having been on vacation for 8 years. How the world has changed! 8 years since I sold my last business and I am learning all over. HN is a faucet of knowledge on turned on full boar. I have been reading and learning like crazy!

Re: Ask HN: How Many of You Are Like Me?

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Post by prawn »

kraggp wrote: post #87
JesseAldridge wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics) Attention is a scarce resource. Acting like a fool is correlated with actually being a fool. People are less likely to take a comment seriously when a cursory examination suggests that it's a waste of space. Maybe that's not the way it should be, but that's the way it is.

Are you serious? Have you worked in a board room at a Fortune 500 company? Most CEOs and executives don't have time to compose grammatically-error-free responses. Do you know how Steve Jobs writes? Now multiply that across 500 organizations of the biggest corporations in America and the shoddy writing will certainly shock you if you think "people are less likely to take a comment seriously" because their sentences ar…

If you're the one with the money/power, you probably get a little leeway in your dress and writing.
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