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Nice gem from the 'Yegge-esque'ness: "Consider the delightful personal pleasures that crackpottery has to offer."

• lallysingh 18y ago
  How many of us haven't considered a small lair, a few minions, and a doomsday device before?
  • noonespecial 18y ago
    Throw in evil robots and sharks with lasers and I'm there.
  • mechanical_fish 18y ago
    You know, I've worked in labs which employed actual minions and actual doomsday devices (well, maybe not, but they were more than deadly enough to destroy all of us minions if something went wrong) ... and the excitement wears off. Eventually you stop being awed by the doomsday device and start being annoyed that its repair bills are so high and that you have to keep filling it with liquid nitrogen in the middle of the night. Whereas putting something together in your garage from flea-market parts has a certain pleasure all its own.
    • davi 18y ago
      Yep, the small scale, low budget, homebrew work is more aligned with what I thought you meant by 'personal crackpottery'.
    • mixmax 18y ago
      Apparently the grass is always greener on the other side.
      • many 18y ago
        Academia is where they put the green in the grass.
  • jimbokun 18y ago
    Pretty good description of the typical YC startup.