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"If what you are doing is not important, and if you don't think it is going to lead to something important, why are you at Bell Labs working on it?"
Why both appoaches work?
When will you stop ranting about Viaweb? I understand it was your single achievement, but it was essentially a fluke. There were hundreds of startups trying, one of them got lucky. And where's Viaweb now? It was a long time ago, and you should considering moving on with your life.
Now, as a self-proclaimed nerd, you know of Gary Gygax? Well, if Viaweb was your D&D, YC is your Lejendary Adventures: a heartbreaking attempt of a spent man to recreate his former success.
And just as Gygax died, Arc is your death.
You're dead, Paul. You're as dead as that Lisp of yours which you keep rambling about. Even people who leech your money can't keep up with your delusions of Lisp; Reddit, for example, was redone in Python as soon as the mad old grandpa loosened the sack.
And that's why Arc is depressing and smells of rot.
Rest in peace.
It’s amazing how often a complex solution can create more problems than it solves and / or completely miss the underlying problem.
Your essays are not bad, but there are still parts you can take away.
Creating a good design is very time consuming. One spends most of the time searching for the onions.
PB
I like the way you share ideas and concepts with me, the reader and message receiver.
Obviously, Paul, the whole is greater or less than the sum of the parts. You some how manage to make points that others couldn't with many more words. It's how you use the English language.
It's how you reason and think.
I think.
I think you annoy the hell out of insecure little twits whose "authority" they cling to like little kids afraid as hell that somebody (a "bully," perhaps?) is going to pry their "binky" (or toy or some other thingy [sic]) out of their sweaty little hands.
Or something like that.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hear what you're saying in terms of people not being able to write well, and that people are trying to beat their geeky chests in a sort of hacker bravado. I also don't get a really nasty vibe from Hacker news, like I do on Reddit. I was referring to the Hacker culture at large when I was referring to "nastiness". I believe that there is a lot of bravado and competition in Geek culture. But there's also a lot of na…
Hackers don't tolerate bad behavior. They avoid communities that accept mean people (unless they are also mean). Paul probably only visits Reddit to read comments about something he's done. I left the chatroom #lisp because of the assholicism. (Leaving was an excellent decision. Everything about Lisp can be learned from CLHS, SICP, On Lisp, gigamonkeys.com/book, other books, and Google. It takes patience, but you'll…