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Re: I’m writing again

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Including all the mentally unwell people/trolls in the comments who have become obsessed with Bob's Minecraft server project that did not work out. Their righteous indignation will valiantly carry forth forever! Let them never stop obsessing! "But it matters!" "It's really important!" "He's a liar, and boy our society is collapsing because of liars!". Urghh. They are in the comments here too, riding high white horses…

Sure, it's interesting there are still people out there who want to put him in his place or whatever. I think most people understand that's why you don't lie about the things like I've just learned this guy has. Especially if you depend on your name for your livelihood. or in this case, it's a pseudonym? Maybe they should get over it but IMO everyone should pick their battles carefully, and just because it looks like…

You can choose not to join the Internet outrage machine. That's a personal choice you can make.

You can choose instead to just enjoy the work and shrug at the terrible injustices and unbelievably bad behavior the trolls want to manipulate you to be mad about, multiplying their power. You don't have to obey the trolls when they instruct you that "this person is a liar!", and "what about the minecraft server!".

Re: I’m writing again

#32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, it's interesting there are still people out there who want to put him in his place or whatever. I think most people understand that's why you don't lie about the things like I've just learned this guy has. Especially if you depend on your name for your livelihood. or in this case, it's a pseudonym? Maybe they should get over it but IMO everyone should pick their battles carefully, and just because it looks like…

You can choose not to join the Internet outrage machine. That's a personal choice you can make. You can choose instead to just enjoy the work and shrug at the terrible injustices and unbelievably bad behavior the trolls want to manipulate you to be mad about, multiplying their power. You don't have to obey the trolls when they instruct you that "this person is a liar!", and "what about the minecraft server!".

I don't know what you mean by obeying trolls. Just forget it.

Re: I’m writing again

#33

Including all the mentally unwell people/trolls in the comments who have become obsessed with Bob's Minecraft server project that did not work out. Their righteous indignation will valiantly carry forth forever! Let them never stop obsessing! "But it matters!" "It's really important!" "He's a liar, and boy our society is collapsing because of liars!". Urghh. They are in the comments here too, riding high white horses…

Projects fail all the time. It happens.

It’s simply inexcusable (and criminally fraudulent in many jurisdictions) to lie about your academic credentials—especially when it involves other people’s money.

Re: I’m writing again

#34

Including all the mentally unwell people/trolls in the comments who have become obsessed with Bob's Minecraft server project that did not work out. Their righteous indignation will valiantly carry forth forever! Let them never stop obsessing! "But it matters!" "It's really important!" "He's a liar, and boy our society is collapsing because of liars!". Urghh. They are in the comments here too, riding high white horses…

Projects fail all the time. It happens. It’s simply inexcusable (and criminally fraudulent in many jurisdictions) to lie about your academic credentials—especially when it involves other people’s money.

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Re: I’m writing again

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For clarity, he has a master's degree, not a Ph.D. Via NYTime Nov. 16, 1998 article "Compressed Data; Stanford Gave Writer A Start, but Not a Ph.D." - "The San Francisco Chronicle reported last week that Mr. Stephens had not been a professor at Stanford University and had not earned a doctorate there, as he had claimed." "A university spokeswoman said that Mr. Stephens had worked as a teaching assistant and earned on…

Thanks for your research and correction of my error.

Re: I’m writing again

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post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Projects fail all the time. It happens. It’s simply inexcusable (and criminally fraudulent in many jurisdictions) to lie about your academic credentials—especially when it involves other people’s money.

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Re: I’m writing again

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This goes back a LONG way for me. I really enjoyed his Notes From The Field column in InfoWorld, which was both reliably funny and reliably interesting, from around 1987-1995.

Re: I’m writing again

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post #11

I wouldn't be here if I hadn't somehow obtained and read Accidental Empires as a kid. Still no empire of my own though :(

Recently I've been thinking about the nerds/hippie dichotomy from that book. Really missing the anti-authoritarian streak that was so formative in the early computer industry.

  > Really missing the anti-authoritarian streak that was so formative in the early computer industry.
problem is there wasn't any money in it
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