I heard Paul Graham comes around sometimes.
Ask YC: Notable People On YC
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#32I really like the idea that "notable" people may be lurking here. If only for the reason that we should all think twice before degrading someone else (or generally acting like an idiot). You never know who you're really talking to or who else may be witnessing it.
(Imagine losing a 7 figure deal a year from now because the investor found out you insulted him here.)
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#33edw519 I do not know who he is outside of HN, but he sure is somebody here and I follow his comments/ http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=edw519 . May I also add the one and only http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mattmaroon
Ed's an all around nice guy. We've met both online and in meat space at the last Startup School.
As much as I love this community, it's even better when you get a chance to meet your on-line friends in person.
After talking iamelgringo and Xichekolas for 30 seconds, I felt as if I knew them for years.
I enjoyed debating browsers and screen resolutions with dcurtis. No one ever wins a debate like that, you just laugh and have another beer.
I learned more about 27 new things from kirubakaran is 1 day than in the past year.
Of course, it's always cool to hang out with wizards like alaskamiller, chengmi, and rms.
dfranke is brilliant. He can discuss the pros and cons of 3rd and 4th normal form in one minute and laugh like Albert Einstein the next. I have a feeling there'll be threads like this about him before too long.
My advice to noobs: Make friends here. And find a way to meet them in person (Startup School or even something local). This is not your usual crowd. (We're all notable in some way.) And who knows, you may even make friends for life.
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#34RTM, of course: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=rtm And though it'd be a stretch to call them notable, people I at least heard of before they came here: Colin Perciva (FreeBSD security officer; Putnam winner): http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=cperciva John Graham-Cummings (active in the anti-spam community; caused a firestorm when he submitted Reddit to Digg and got censored): http://news.ycombinator.com…
I'm notable?
congrats. You made it.
It's all downhill from here. : )
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#35I'd like to point out that I disagree with the purpose of this article -- I want to take submitter's comments on their own merits. I don't care if you are Bill Gates or the janitor.
However -- and this is a "feature" of HackerNews -- I have to upvote it to keep it in my list, and I am curious to see the answers.
So count this as a forced upvote.Simply because I am curious about something should not make me upvote it. Geesh.
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#36Re: Ask YC: Notable People On YC
#37Obsession with 'celebrity' is not healthy.
It depends, there are certain people whose opinion I respect more than others.
Tech celebrities are a bit different from regular celebrities. It's (usually) not about what they look like and I'm sure most people you ask wouldn't know who someone like Joel Spolsky was anyway. With nothing else to go by, I would respect Joel's opinion far more than someone I've never spoken to before.
If Bill Gates started commenting here, I'd certainly be paying attention. :)
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Healthy or not, it's human.
So are pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. Saying "it's human" means "it's easy to do this," and is too often an excuse for not-so-excusable behavior.
I think inquiring about notable figures in the fields and industries in which many of us here find sustenance could hardly be considered 'not-so-excusable'. Branding said inquirers as fanboys seems pretty inexcusable to me.
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#39I heard Paul Graham comes around sometimes.
He is here quite often actaully
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is that really mike and/or techcrunch staff?
It's Mike.
It was actually an article by Mike a while back which pointed me here! Hes a big fan of the site by all accounts and am glad he pointed it out, its quickly become one of my first bookmarked visits every morning