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As PG's wife, I think I am the only person who knows exactly how much time, energy and thought he devoted to Hacker News. More than most HN users would guess, t
by jl 13y ago
As PG's wife, I think I am the only person who knows exactly how much time, energy and thought he devoted to Hacker News. More than most HN users would guess, that's for sure. I don't think he ever planned it that way and I'm certain this site stole valuable brain power that could have been focused on writing essays. So thank you Paul for spending so much time making Hacker News such a great place to visit each day.
- Zenst 13y agoThanks JL, he's a good man with good plans and thank you for sharing him. Now you folks have some personal time, you over earned it on many levels, smell those roses.
- raymondh 13y agoThank you both. My wife and I love this site.
- x0x0 13y agosince his duties have to be handed off to three people it makes clear, at minimum after the fact, how much work he was doing
- noonespecial 13y agoI was a fan of the essays from way back. It seemed to me like HN was an extension of that process. Almost like "the final essay". The one that is still being written.
- EC1 13y agoI smell an HN movie.
- BerislavLopac 13y agoNah, not enough drama.
- EC1 13y agoMore like nothing but drama.
- neya 13y agoI did not downvote you, but, in a moment like this, when a man who has devoted a significant portion of his life to this community, is departing the very community, are you sure you want to just club all the emotion into a single monotonous word like 'drama' ? Why so much negativity??
- freehunter 13y agoI'm pretty sure it was a joke, from both posters.
- Chronic26 13y agopg is a single person. Dramas can be made about one person.
- BerislavLopac 13y agoMy comment above ("not enough drama") was directed at the film industry, which (IMO) would never look into making something like YC and HN to a movie. There isn't a clear antagonist, no dramatic turns of events, no "drama" in the sense they're using to sell. I really see no logic behind that idea being downvoted... :-/
- EC1 13y agoI meant it nothing more than a joke.
- Cthulhu_ 13y agoThat can be easily fixed, :p
- rdl 13y agoI really appreciate HN; it was my main reason for getting interested in YC (which, early on, I thought was just another Idealab! clone).
- pjg 13y agoIndeed something that looks simple from the outside has a lot of work put into it to get it to where its simple and usable. Great job and even better to hand it over to a set of people willing to carry on the work and ethos
- argumentum 13y agoThanks JL for sharing and helping him! Hopefully this time investment in HN and Y-Combinator has led to lots of ideas for his coming writing.
- TeMPOraL 13y agoBoth his essays and this site pretty much reshaped my whole view on programming, economics and entrepreneurship, and I know some other people who can say the same thing, so I'd like here to thank you and your husband for all the hard, good work. You created tremendous amounts of value for the world. I do strongly hope PG has some more essays coming ;).
- normloman 13y agoThe last thing we need is some know it all writing more essays. Starting HN, however, is a real accomplishment.