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and sometimes you learn about a person by working with them. Long ago, Vinod was an investor and director of two of my early companies. He was helpful, supporti
by quizotic 11y ago
and sometimes you learn about a person by working with them. Long ago, Vinod was an investor and director of two of my early companies. He was helpful, supportive, polite and wonderful.
- DodgyEggplant 11y agoPeople change
- DodgyEggplant 11y agoyet again: not agree = downvote.
- escape_goat 11y agoLow quality comments are consistently downvoted without remorse. Your response added nothing substantive or interesting for people to read on the comment page. You didn't even bother to use proper syntax. By contrast, you will note that your original comment, disagreeable as it may be to the other commentator and to the other friends of Mr. Khosa, has not been downvoted.
- simonebrunozzi 11y agoAnd I upvoted yours for the same reasons :)
- DodgyEggplant 11y agoMaybe, but more downvotes were for the initial comment
- escape_goat 11y agoYou need to think about it this way: historically, the comment pages of HN have made for very good, diverse, and interesting reading. One learns odd and varied details about historical technological decisions, rocket engine design, et cetera... anything may come up. The commentators on Hacker News include a wide variety of domain experts, mildly historical figures, legions upon legions of extremely experienced programmers, managers, entrepreneurs, and so on. This is what has drawn most of us here. The comments, ideas, and speculations produced by persons such as myself are fine, perhaps, but frankly, they're not nearly as interesting to read. This leads us to one of the most frustrating oddities of the Hacker News website: you can't collapse the comments. If there's a tree structure of comments, every comment will take up at least a good thumb's width of screen space. The consequence of this is that every comment is an imposition on the reader. Every comment needs to be able to account for itself. Posting on Hacker News is a performance, rather than a conversation. We're on stage, whether anyone wants us there or not, and unless we're trying to write words that other people might find valuable, unless we're at least trying, then yes, we will be swiftly downvoted to oblivion by everyone, including people exactly like ourselves. There may be annoyance behind it, but there's scarcely enough thought wasted for malice. One-liners must be very informative or situationally relevant messages. And properly capitalized and punctuated. Or else they should go unwritten.
- swalsh 11y agoTo be fair, being helpful to a company you have an investment in is just a good business move... it doesn't implicitly make you a "better person".
- wslh 11y agoI don't know Vinod Khosla personally but all people have many faces.
- coleslawfail 11y agoHow long ago? He's been at this almost 30 years. He doesn't need the money. Now it's all about him. Martin's Beach is the symptom of the disease.
- glibgil 11y agoIs the disease greed?
- adventured 11y agoNon-billionaires take actions regularly based on the notion that they are right in their course, morally and or legally. Now size that up to billionaire status. They too are likely to take actions based on thinking that they are in fact right in their decision making. The issue in that case: billionaires often tend to impact a lot of other people with their actions, because so much of what they do is outsized. My issue might be with my neighbors on a single property line marker. Or maybe they think my trashcans are encroaching on their curb area, pick the issue. Billionaires generate billionaire-size problems.
- sqeaky 11y agoDoesn't the placard at Jimmy Jon's say something like "You can't tell how nice a person is by how they treat you, watch how they treat the waiter."?
- aaronbrethorst 11y agoFunny placard, that: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/10/jimmy-johns-noncompete-agreement_n_7042112.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/10/jimmy-johns-noncomp...
- npizzolato 11y agoI don't find myself quoting Harry Potter often, but there's a really good quote in Goblet of Fire: "If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."