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   Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 04:41:40 JST Sexy Moon
   I remember reading an essay by a "real artist" criticizing Paul Graham's "Hackers and Painters" who basically was just bragging that he had more sex than computer nerds.
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     why? (why@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 04:44:43 JST why?

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     @Moon im sure pg was crying while looking at his multi billion bank account
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 05:00:05 JST Sexy Moon

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     @union @lain the essay isn't great but it isn't terrible either.
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     Account: Politics (union@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 05:00:09 JST Account: Politics

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     @lain @Moon Ironically enough he might have. All his money could not buy respect, I'm sure that hurt.
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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     @Moon @lain
     
     I remember that I thought "Painters" was the point at which Graham jumped the shark with his essays. But I suspect that I was negatively biased by his claims that founders living in rat cages of San Francisco was necessary for startups. Unfortunately, at the time it looked like he was winning and I probably felt like being extra critical.
     
     It all happened before the Wuhan Corona and the exodus from Frisco to Tahoe.
     
     The sweetest part for me is, I knew a guy in 1998, Andy Banta, who lived in Tahoe. He commuted to work at Sun in MPK twice a week. Sun tolerated him because he was very good and we still had vestiges of meritocracy back then. Talk about being ahead of the curve.
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