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Whether or not Paul Graham is "a fraud", the way to get that message out is not posting links on random HN discussions. That's spam.
Fool that I am, I took the bait and posted a response on the guy's site, which of course was edited in a remarkably classy way.
Like most high-schoolers, Benoit gets gift cards for birthdays and holidays and puts most of them to use. But, if it's a bookstore, it'll just waste away in her wallet. This makes me cry.
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Whether or not Paul Graham is "a fraud", the way to get that message out is not posting links on random HN discussions. That's spam.
Seriously. Looks "egotistical, pompous, and self-serving" to me. Fool that I am, I took the bait and posted a response on the guy's site, which of course was edited in a remarkably classy way.
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Seriously. Looks "egotistical, pompous, and self-serving" to me. Fool that I am, I took the bait and posted a response on the guy's site, which of course was edited in a remarkably classy way.
Wait, you commented on the story and then he changed the text of said comment? Wow.
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Wait, you commented on the story and then he changed the text of said comment? Wow.
same thing happened to me. i left a joke comment, and somebody edited it into an ominous-sounding threat. thankfully, i wasn't foolish enough to include any real-life indentifiable details.
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Seriously. Looks "egotistical, pompous, and self-serving" to me. Fool that I am, I took the bait and posted a response on the guy's site, which of course was edited in a remarkably classy way.
Wait, you commented on the story and then he changed the text of said comment? Wow.
My first comment was a detailed criticism of his rant, noting that (1) registering multiple users and upvoting your own content is gaming the system, (2) when pg criticized him for it he said "I got you" but clearly didn't "get" what pg was getting at, (3) his failure to link to the original on twitpic was a violation of HN's submission guidelines and pg was actually cutting him slack by requesting that he include a link instead of changing the HN submission, and (4) HN's guidelines explicitly state that editors may change your title if you editorialize it. I noted that for someone so stuck on pg not giving him guidelines, he was awfully ignorant of those guidelines.
They stripped all of that out of my post, leaving only a poorly edited variant of my conclusion.
I added an addendum about how "egotistical, pompous, and self-serving" it was to spam this to HN, which he edited to say something libelous about PG.
I sent a note saying how classy that edit was, which was edited to use a different username (!) and was totally incoherent.
Quite impressive, really.
Like most high-schoolers, Benoit gets gift cards for birthdays and holidays and puts most of them to use. But, if it's a bookstore, it'll just waste away in her wallet. This makes me cry.
The real issue here is the way high school English approaches reading, it turns even great novels into a chore. With journal entries, reading quizzes over minor details, etc etc you can't actually sit back and enjoy the books. I hated reading in high school, but since then I have found that when I read classics similar to those people read in high school, I enjoy them much more than I did back then, even if it's hard…
> If you accept the offer, just mail in your card and within a few days, cardpool.com will mail you a check. I wonder how they deal with gift cards bought with stolen credit cards? If the gift card gets cancelled by the retailer after Cardpool verifies it and sends the cheque, they're out the money. This could be an easy way to liquidate the balance on a card.
Also people steal items from places like Home Depot and then return the items for gift cards. I met a guy who that is all he did. He would steal the items and had his girlfriend return them. Eventually he upped his tactics and started representing himself as a representative from a manufacturer and would do a "recall" of all of stock on a particular item (swiffer wet mop cleaning pads) and he got them all and returne…
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Wait, you commented on the story and then he changed the text of said comment? Wow.
Yep. Actually a couple of times. My first comment was a detailed criticism of his rant, noting that (1) registering multiple users and upvoting your own content is gaming the system, (2) when pg criticized him for it he said "I got you" but clearly didn't "get" what pg was getting at, (3) his failure to link to the original on twitpic was a violation of HN's submission guidelines and pg was actually cutting him slack…
Also, I'd prefer tough love from PG at YC over a quiet slide into obscurity any day.