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oh really? you sure it's you and not Paul Graham that calls it that? like don't you realize you're literally on a site started by the guy that coined that phras
by ice109 9y ago
oh really? you sure it's you and not Paul Graham that calls it that? like don't you realize you're literally on a site started by the guy that coined that phrase: everyone here is already familiar with it and the correct attribution.
- Waterluvian 9y agoI'm not here to convince you of anything, but I will say with all genuine honesty I don't know who Paul Graham is. I'm here because I got tired of reddit and my friends said there's more tech news here. I also think that "playing startup" is so obvious that many people could have come up with it. That being said, it's also quite possible that I saw it somewhere and absorbed it without fully remembering the source and now have a false memory of coming up with it myself. I will add though that it's pretty fascinating as someone who is so disinterested in (and at times has a disdain for) startup people and startup culture, to be accused along the lines of, "how dare you feign not knowing who Startup Person X is!"
- dreamcompiler 9y agoSurfing Hacker News without knowing who Paul Graham is, is like shopping at Amazon without knowing who Jeff Bezos is. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it but it seems a bit odd to some of us. That doesn't make it okay to be rude to you.
- lazaroclapp 9y agoWould be willing to bet you less than 1% of Amazon shoppers worldwide know who Jeff Bezos is...
- phlakaton 9y agoPaul's one of the founders of YCombinator who hosts this site. That being said, I don't really know Paul as a Startup Person, only as an essayist and author. To that end, I'm happy to commend his book "On Lisp" to anyone's attention, though, as it's one of my very few desert-island technical books!