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You've got me coming around a bit on that. But I haven't yet seen a comment where I felt I was getting bad legal advice or an insincere 'fail early, often' or a

You've got me coming around a bit on that. But I haven't yet seen a comment where I felt I was getting bad legal advice or an insincere 'fail early, often' or anything similar. I could see it useful in say a discussion of operating a site at massive scale when the poster's sys admin skills were limited to a WP blog. But usually in those cases people qualify what they're saying with, 'I worked on x and we did y'. I think you have to qualify what you're saying in that way. It's presumptuous to assume people know who you are. My background is marketing and PR (as an entrepreneur) so I usually qualify PR-related advice with a note of my experience. If people don't I usually assume they're regurgitating what someone else told them. Anyway it's moot for me because I never check people's bios. I don't know who any of those people are other than pg. I'm ok with that because again I'm really only interested in what they have to say. If Mr Z is on his 11th startup and is worth 23 gazillion dollars I would expect that will come through in his perspective on the industry. I hope it would at least. Don't worry, if I could do it over again I would skip college. I wish I would have raised 1/5 of the money I had to for college and started a business. I would have learned more, faster and would probably be retired already.

jacquesm 16y ago
> But I haven't yet seen a comment where I felt I was getting bad legal advice or an insincere 'fail early, often' or anything similar. I've seen more than a few, but truth be told they were usually identified as such. > Don't worry, if I could do it over again I would skip college. I wish I would have raised 1/5 of the money I had to for college and started a business. I would have learned more, faster and would probably be retired already. I still have contact with a few of the people from 'the old days', and I wouldn't trade with them for any amount of money, but every now and then I wished I'd gotten the benefits of at least high school calculus. I tend to spend too much time approaching mathematical problems in a way that I can fudge my basic knowledge, in stead of for instance a direct approach using an analytical method I might code up a brute force search or a hill climbing algorithm (and pray I'm not stuck on a local maximum :) ). The network would have come in handy as well in the beginning, but I've long ago made up for lack of that.
- mbenjaminsmith 16y ago
  I think I take that back - I would do college again to get a CS degree. I really enjoy programming, but it's only a fraction of my time even now that I'm doing tech. I wish I would have done CS so I would have had more time on the intellectual side of programming - both so I could program better (I fudge my way through it as well) and for the enjoyment of it.

jacquesm 16y ago

> But I haven't yet seen a comment where I felt I was getting bad legal advice or an insincere 'fail early, often' or anything similar. I've seen more than a few, but truth be told they were usually identified as such. > Don't worry, if I could do it over again I would skip college. I wish I would have raised 1/5 of the money I had to for college and started a business. I would have learned more, faster and would probably be retired already. I still have contact with a few of the people from 'the old days', and I wouldn't trade with them for any amount of money, but every now and then I wished I'd gotten the benefits of at least high school calculus. I tend to spend too much time approaching mathematical problems in a way that I can fudge my basic knowledge, in stead of for instance a direct approach using an analytical method I might code up a brute force search or a hill climbing algorithm (and pray I'm not stuck on a local maximum :) ). The network would have come in handy as well in the beginning, but I've long ago made up for lack of that.

mbenjaminsmith 16y ago
I think I take that back - I would do college again to get a CS degree. I really enjoy programming, but it's only a fraction of my time even now that I'm doing tech. I wish I would have done CS so I would have had more time on the intellectual side of programming - both so I could program better (I fudge my way through it as well) and for the enjoyment of it.