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Other than the reference to one of Paul's essays, what does this story have to do with startups and hacking?

hhm 19y ago
I think the text below the title "The law will make you into the worst kind of person" is pretty interesting by itself.
henning 19y ago
It gratifies intellectual curiosity (what's the grass like on the other side of the fence? it sucks). Those liberal arts majors who counted on a JD for a career often wind up hating life and themselves.
- cowmoo 19y ago
  I go to one of those liberal arts school where English majors count on a JD for a career; and let me tell you, as much as I hate to admit it as a CS/Biol major, they are surprisingly well-adjusted people. But don't get me wrong, my experience both on the debate team, going to tournaments involving all of ivies and NESCAC school's has taught me to stay away from law. One time, I went against one of the eventual national champion of college debate from Cornell; as I went out of time in my closing argument, my dear opponent, the future model of Corporate America counsel, took his rolex off his wrist and shook it at me, and shouted exasperatedly that my time was up. But, I have to say: once, when I was a young clueless college student, I tried both the pre-med and pre-law path. It was the thing to do at my school which charged 40K+ for being a holding pen for New England rich family's kids. And even now, I have friends on campus who question my decision to pursue a career that will be soon "outsourced" and not the tried and proven path of i-banking/medicine/law. In response, I just smile because the irony is that, they are the ones who don't know any thing better than writing abstract essays on obtuse topics, memorizing tedious information on biological structures, and tinkering with Excel spreadsheets (and programming in VBA...oh the horrors!) at their summer i-banking internships. They have no idea how fun it is to fire up your compiler on a late night and to plug away at your own ideas, to work for fun and not for work. That there is a whole world out there,of one's own with interesting areas to explore, outside of the usual everyday social small-talk BS and climbing the corporate ladder.
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rkts 19y ago
http://ycombinator.com/hackernews.html http://ycombinator.com/hackernews.html "The focus of Hacker News is going to be anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes a lot more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

hhm 19y ago

I think the text below the title "The law will make you into the worst kind of person" is pretty interesting by itself.

It gratifies intellectual curiosity (what's the grass like on the other side of the fence? it sucks). Those liberal arts majors who counted on a JD for a career often wind up hating life and themselves.

cowmoo 19y ago
I go to one of those liberal arts school where English majors count on a JD for a career; and let me tell you, as much as I hate to admit it as a CS/Biol major, they are surprisingly well-adjusted people. But don't get me wrong, my experience both on the debate team, going to tournaments involving all of ivies and NESCAC school's has taught me to stay away from law. One time, I went against one of the eventual national champion of college debate from Cornell; as I went out of time in my closing argument, my dear opponent, the future model of Corporate America counsel, took his rolex off his wrist and shook it at me, and shouted exasperatedly that my time was up. But, I have to say: once, when I was a young clueless college student, I tried both the pre-med and pre-law path. It was the thing to do at my school which charged 40K+ for being a holding pen for New England rich family's kids. And even now, I have friends on campus who question my decision to pursue a career that will be soon "outsourced" and not the tried and proven path of i-banking/medicine/law. In response, I just smile because the irony is that, they are the ones who don't know any thing better than writing abstract essays on obtuse topics, memorizing tedious information on biological structures, and tinkering with Excel spreadsheets (and programming in VBA...oh the horrors!) at their summer i-banking internships. They have no idea how fun it is to fire up your compiler on a late night and to plug away at your own ideas, to work for fun and not for work. That there is a whole world out there,of one's own with interesting areas to explore, outside of the usual everyday social small-talk BS and climbing the corporate ladder.
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rkts 19y ago

http://ycombinator.com/hackernews.html http://ycombinator.com/hackernews.html "The focus of Hacker News is going to be anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes a lot more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."