College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek • Hacker News Board

Re: College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek

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Post by jacoblyles » Thu, Mar 19, 2009, 9:00 PM UTC

"You could just have a party where you all played pin the tail on the donkey or musical chairs or something. But that is just not done in this part of D.C. If you did that, you would be talked about."

That's a microcosm of what I didn't like about DC. The culture is very status oriented and judgmental.

Re: College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek

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Post by randallsquared » Thu, Mar 19, 2009, 9:27 PM UTC

brandnewlow wrote: post #8

jpcx01 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the summary. This useless fluff piece lost me after the first page.

How can you render judgment if you didn't read past page one?

Not reading past page one is a judgment. It's one I make all the time about various articles and stories.

Re: College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek

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Post by squidbot » Thu, Mar 19, 2009, 9:31 PM UTC

3 years ago suburbanites were swimming in money and had nothing better to do with it. I doubt this guy is still pulling in a full weekend of @$300 shows.

Re: College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek

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Post by brandnewlow » Thu, Mar 19, 2009, 9:31 PM UTC

randallsquared wrote: post #12

brandnewlow wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can you render judgment if you didn't read past page one?

Not reading past page one is a judgment. It's one I make all the time about various articles and stories.

Certainly. But then you don't pass judgment on the work as a whole based on the little bit you read.

Re: College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek

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Post by Alex3917 » Thu, Mar 19, 2009, 9:36 PM UTC

Flagged. Come on, really?

Re: College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek

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Post by dasil003 » Thu, Mar 19, 2009, 9:37 PM UTC

akikuchi wrote: post #10

I actually enjoy many of the posts about the creative (or at least somewhat non-traditional) things people do as solo entrepreneurs. After reading the entire article though, I do find it funny how this tagline was used to position the article for the HN community. The article is actually much more of a character study than a discussion of a business, and it takes a significant change in content after the first thousa…

Brilliant article, brilliant HN positioning, brilliant page partitioning. Best thing I've read on HN this year.

Re: College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 19, 2009, 9:53 PM UTC

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Re: College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek

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Post by spoiledtechie » Thu, Mar 19, 2009, 10:02 PM UTC

Brilliant article. Prob one of the best things I have read all year long.

WOW! Should make a movie about it.

Re: College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek

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Post by jibiki » Thu, Mar 19, 2009, 10:07 PM UTC

dasil003 wrote: post #16

akikuchi wrote: post #10

I actually enjoy many of the posts about the creative (or at least somewhat non-traditional) things people do as solo entrepreneurs. After reading the entire article though, I do find it funny how this tagline was used to position the article for the HN community. The article is actually much more of a character study than a discussion of a business, and it takes a significant change in content after the first thousa…

Brilliant article, brilliant HN positioning, brilliant page partitioning . Best thing I've read on HN this year.

The way the article totally changes course on the last page is brilliant. This might be the only news article I've seen that used the hypertext format that well.

Re: College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek

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Post by brandnewlow » Thu, Mar 19, 2009, 10:12 PM UTC

jibiki wrote: post #19

dasil003 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brilliant article, brilliant HN positioning, brilliant page partitioning . Best thing I've read on HN this year.

The way the article totally changes course on the last page is brilliant. This might be the only news article I've seen that used the hypertext format that well.

There was a live chat with the author on the Washington Post the week this was published. Someone asked him if the paging was set up this way on purpose and he denied it.