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>"frequent HN contributor"

What's the point of that exactly? Supposed to be amusing?


I find the absurdity slightly amusing, if a bit misplaced.


I think we might be seeing the birth of HN's first meme. Here is another post (now dead) about the pope:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5200247


There is an important distinction between developer and engineer. Anyone can become a developer, engineering on the other hand requires a bunch of training.


Let me guess, you have an engineering degree and think you have studied more than any developer.


Nope. I'm also not a developer.


First, let me put it this way: you can do perfectly alright without a college degree, however, you can only rise so high. You must not expect to be the next Gates who is obviously an exception.

Secondly, college is not about only about learning. Queue the "Don't let schooling get in the way of your education" spiel. It's experience. I'm not even talking about partying and getting laid, which are still experiences, but professional experience where you go a talk to a professor that you liked for four hours arguing how machines will never be truly intelligent.

So, yes, I think you should definitely go to college and do your startup part-time. The startup might not work out, and you will have the degree forever thus allowing for other prospects. Besides, who knows how you'll feel in ten years.


I wouldn't compare myself to Gates. :P Great points, I appreciate the feedback!


https://github.com/blog/1365-a-more-transparent-clipboard-bu...

Original article, and not TechCrunch regurgitation.


To be frank, this isn't a startup. This is a weekend project.

Also, the generic random background photos on the homepage just don't make sense.


Hi. Listnerd is a bootstrapped startup. So far we've invested 100k into it. Listnerd is a startup owned by our media company Omega Media, which has a yearly revenue of roughly $1.2 million USD. So I'd say it's a startup. Thanks for your input!


You see, about a year and a half ago this was what HN was actually like.


So this is what it has come to? Reddit links were not sufficiently nonsensical? Shall we start posting memes now?


Privileged sounds right. What makes him think that he gets to decide.


Of course Gawker would soy that.


Isn't Chitika the largely discredited company that basically invented nonsensical stats a few months ago?


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