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Let's talk about startups, please. You will notice: 1) The lead article is not about startups. 2) I quoted a passage that was from the lead article. 3) I co

Let's talk about startups, please. You will notice: 1) The lead article is not about startups. 2) I quoted a passage that was from the lead article. 3) I commented on that passage. So, if you have some sort of objection, please refer to the person who submitted it, or to the author, and not me. Thanks. ADDENDUM: two wrongs make a right Sometimes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_Tat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_Tat

raganwald 19y ago
You know what, you're right and I'm wrong. Communities are whatever their members make of them, and the upmods for your comment suggests to me that this community thinks that's worthy of mention. When I said startups, I actually included programming as part of startups, due to the flavour of PG's essays, so I thought the article was relevant for ycombinator. But again, it's not up to me. And honestly, I wouldn't have said anything about your comment except I had just come from reddit, where more than half of the comments on the programming sub-reddit were about whether he should have included pictures, about whether the actress was hot, and about whether Japan really does have a cultural identity distinct from America. I guess I was just crotchety about the fact that nobody seemed to be paying any attention to what I thought the article was about. I was being selfish. I was wrong to try to tell you what you should and shouldn't say on a forum: forums are for the members, they needn't follow my preconceptions about what is on or off topic, what is relevant, or what is or isn't important in an article. So... if you want to get into a whole Christians vs. Muslims through history thing, I'll get out of the way.
- mynameishere 19y ago
  Please to note that my initial objection was basically of the same flavor, ie, "why is the article conflating programming languages and the Crusades?"
  - r7000 19y ago
    "Religious wars" is a long-standing metaphor when discussing programming languages. http://www.google.com/search?q=Religious+wars+programming+languages http://www.google.com/search?q=Religious+wars+programming+la...
- edw519 19y ago
  Nice post. Didn't see a copyright or DRM. Permission to cut & paste it into my own future posts?
  - raganwald 19y ago
    please help yourself. as for copyright, "your ideas will go further if you don't insist that they carry you go along with them."

raganwald 19y ago

You know what, you're right and I'm wrong. Communities are whatever their members make of them, and the upmods for your comment suggests to me that this community thinks that's worthy of mention. When I said startups, I actually included programming as part of startups, due to the flavour of PG's essays, so I thought the article was relevant for ycombinator. But again, it's not up to me. And honestly, I wouldn't have said anything about your comment except I had just come from reddit, where more than half of the comments on the programming sub-reddit were about whether he should have included pictures, about whether the actress was hot, and about whether Japan really does have a cultural identity distinct from America. I guess I was just crotchety about the fact that nobody seemed to be paying any attention to what I thought the article was about. I was being selfish. I was wrong to try to tell you what you should and shouldn't say on a forum: forums are for the members, they needn't follow my preconceptions about what is on or off topic, what is relevant, or what is or isn't important in an article. So... if you want to get into a whole Christians vs. Muslims through history thing, I'll get out of the way.

mynameishere 19y ago
Please to note that my initial objection was basically of the same flavor, ie, "why is the article conflating programming languages and the Crusades?"
- r7000 19y ago
  "Religious wars" is a long-standing metaphor when discussing programming languages. http://www.google.com/search?q=Religious+wars+programming+languages http://www.google.com/search?q=Religious+wars+programming+la...
edw519 19y ago
Nice post. Didn't see a copyright or DRM. Permission to cut & paste it into my own future posts?
- raganwald 19y ago
  please help yourself. as for copyright, "your ideas will go further if you don't insist that they carry you go along with them."