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Dangerous Ideas: Sorry Paul Graham, I Think it Does Matter Where You Went to College

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Re: Dangerous Ideas: Sorry Paul Graham, I Think it Does Matter Where You Went to College

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Post by aswanson »

comatose_kid wrote: post #39
DocSavage wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's not get carried away and take a reasonable argument in new directions and also to the extreme. --> "College is.. a vacation. Please, please, please, don't confuse success in school with success in anything that actually matters." There are some fields where discipline, jumping through (seemingly arbitrary) hoops, and ability to study/capture knowledge is a reasonable indicator of success, e.g., medicine. I'll b…

Actually, I'll have to disagree. Studying organic chemistry beats changing baby diapers any day...

Yes sir. I've done both.

Re: Dangerous Ideas: Sorry Paul Graham, I Think it Does Matter Where You Went to College

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Post by allenbrunson »

jamiequint wrote: post #46
allenbrunson wrote: post #23

ugh. what is this doing here? this is the kind of stuff i expect hacker news to be free from. why can't i have a "vote down" button?

Its here to provide another viewpoint for people to discuss (criticize) in (supposedly) intelligent debate.

yeah, i totally don't agree with that. this is just noise and distraction, which fritters away the coherency of this site.

if paul graham is able to create a site such as this one that is NOT eventually destroyed by its own popularity, then it may well be a first. noise like this article isn't helping in the least.

Re: Dangerous Ideas: Sorry Paul Graham, I Think it Does Matter Where You Went to College

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Post by euccastro »

[UPDATE 9/7/07: Welcome new readers. Before continuing, I want to point out that the "Dangerous Ideas" series on this blog aim to be purposefully over the top. The idea is to push an argument to its extreme to generate interesting discussion. So take what follows with a grain of salt]

I had a better idea: just not reading what follows. Thanks at least for being upfront about your trolling intentions.

Re: Dangerous Ideas: Sorry Paul Graham, I Think it Does Matter Where You Went to College

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Post by jamiequint »

allenbrunson wrote: post #52
jamiequint wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its here to provide another viewpoint for people to discuss (criticize) in (supposedly) intelligent debate.

yeah, i totally don't agree with that. this is just noise and distraction, which fritters away the coherency of this site. if paul graham is able to create a site such as this one that is NOT eventually destroyed by its own popularity, then it may well be a first. noise like this article isn't helping in the least.

You're arguing that opposing viewpoints are noise and shouldn't be allowed? Sorry, but I don't want to live in that type of world/community.
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