Loved it. Very entertaining, and a great twist at the end. I LOLed.
The Anorexic Startup: A Tale of Sex, Drugs, and C++
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#32This startup literature reminds me of the best stuff that came out of the last boom... everyone seems to have forgotten about it or been too young to remember.
Two of my favorites:
Starving to death on 200 Million (The Industry Standard)
August (A film based on Globe.com)
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#33Sad that it isn't clear from the get-go that this is fictional. Points deducted.
The very first words on the page say it's a FABLE, right there in the title.
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#34It's a story , you silly fools. It's called fiction. It's pretty good, though I feel like a lot of the length was kind of redundant; it would have been better shorter. Or, as George Carlin put it: >I’ve also grown weary of reading about clouds in a book. Doesn’t this piss you off? You’re reading a nice story, and suddenly the writer has to stop and describe the clouds. Who cares?.......I’m not interested. Skip the cl…
Who was saying it wasn't?
Read through the thread. Nobody.
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#35Highly entertaining. I'll admit, I wasn't positive it was satire until the Anonymous bit. Still, a thoroughly enjoyable read. Also, SoreGoggles actually sounds like a fun idea for an app.
I got sucked in at the beginning also. I admit that I haven't read other fiction stories in the startup genre so it also took me a while to figure it out, except that I did all seem a bit too good to be true.
The fake tweets about vomiting all over the stage were definitely entertaining.
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#36I found this very entertaining :) Anyone recommend any startup books? Fiction or non-fiction?
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#37Sad that it isn't clear from the get-go that this is fictional. Points deducted.
When it said it was a "short story" that generally means it is fiction....
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#38For a happier ending, try "Sex, Drugs, and Unix":
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#40Did anyone else find this to be skeevy/pervy typical male nerd fantasy bullshit?
Too often Sci-Fi books go down this path as well, taking what could be an otherwise compelling story and turning it into ... this. (Daemon by Daniel Suarez is the first thing that comes to mind)
I should make it a point that frank discussions of sex and human sexuality don't bother me in the least, but drugged-up-sex-power-struggle-bullshit? Mer.