At 83, I Decided to Develop an App • Hacker News Board

Re: At 83, I Decided to Develop an App

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Post by mgiannopoulos » Tue, Jan 26, 2016, 1:38 PM UTC

goodJobWalrus wrote: post #20

backwardm wrote: post #9

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The single comment on that post is great: "It’s amazing what people can do when they’re not being tortured to death!" —Evan Engel. +1 Evan.

There are other comments, such as (in order of most recommended): > Eagerly anticipating your gamification of waterboarding. and quoting Rumsfeld's' opening "I’ve done business, politics, and war." > Yes, we get it. You’ve killed people. and the rest in the same style. Maybe Rumsfeld's PR peeps didn't think this Medium appearance through.

It amazes me that a professional PR company (obviously this was not written by Rumsfeld himself) approved the idea of posting on Medium where there is no full control of comments.

Re: At 83, I Decided to Develop an App

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Post by cholantesh » Tue, Jan 26, 2016, 2:57 PM UTC

Randgalt wrote: post #12

AndrewUnmuted wrote: post #7

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> The negativity is disappointing. You do know what kind of negative things Mr. Rumsfeld is guilty of, right? I do not think one could be blamed for feeling _ashamed_ that such a horrific man has entered the field with which those of us here are all so deeply engaged.

There's nothing horrific about Donald Rumsfeld. He was Secretary of Defense. Was he more horrific than any other Secretary of Defense? War is horrific. So is Leftist bias.

Rumsfeld's career is the stuff of Trotsky's wildest dreams, so yeah, I guess you're right.

Re: At 83, I Decided to Develop an App

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Post by mercer » Tue, Jan 26, 2016, 3:47 PM UTC

noxToken wrote: post #11

AndrewUnmuted wrote: post #7

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> The negativity is disappointing. You do know what kind of negative things Mr. Rumsfeld is guilty of, right? I do not think one could be blamed for feeling _ashamed_ that such a horrific man has entered the field with which those of us here are all so deeply engaged.

But what do the two have to do with each other? It's one thing if the guy is brushing elbows with you in the office every day, but this is nothing like that. He took an interest in the field and tried his hand. His past actions are irrelevant in this aspect.

Apparently to many of us here his past action are not irrelevant. It's an interesting discussion as to why this may or may not be the case, but it's clearly not a given.