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Maybe I took http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html too much to heart, but "holds people accountable for what they say" is rather
by prodigal_erik 17y ago
Maybe I took http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html too much to heart, but "holds people accountable for what they say" is rather sinister. I've long since stopped saying anything even slightly controversial without an alias. Isn't there some way of making a reputation valuable enough to build and keep, without tying it to my True Name and hurting my career?
- ggchappell 17y agoThat is an excellent question. Perhaps what we need is a way to make money off of maintaining reputation info for online accounts. Then there would be a good incentive for someone to figure out how to do it (and also to do it).
- billswift 17y agohttp://xkcd.com/137/ http://xkcd.com/137/
- prodigal_erik 17y agoThat's stirring and all, but notice that Munroe is not in the habit of pissing off his fans/customers (nor should he). Me, I like having business guys drop tough problems and big checks in my lap, and it's worth being nonthreatening to have that. Flying my freak flag just means I'd have to be self-employed, which involves spending a lot of time not coding.