giles_bowkett

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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
like most people who post here you need to read Paul Graham's early work. professionalism is harmful to quality of work and especially so in startups. professionalism is an artifact of the industrial revolution and is not relevant in all fi
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
If people didn't like Techcrunch, they wouldn't go to the site. If Techcrunch was irrelevant, they wouldn't generate massive leads for pet projects that people create. these points are both true, but they don't alter the fact that Techc
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
html fail arrrgh
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
<i>TechCrunch is awful, but there's no excuse for the spit in the face incident.</i> that's silly. I swallowed some water but there was a fly in the water somehow, it was wriggling, so I reflexively spat and your face just h
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
there you have it in a nutshell
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
why the hell would the judges die with a hard-on? that doesn't even make sense.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
that's interesting but why is it on hacker news? what has it got to do with anything hacker newsy?
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
thank you! to get posting rights on Y Combinator, you should have to answer a quiz, and there should be questions about this Shirky post on it. this and the one about micropayments. I can't believe some idiot got on the Daily Show and the f
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
API
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
ok, you know how all my posts about Hacker News being doomed rocket to the top spot on the site? and this question isn't even on the front page? THAT is why Hacker News is doomed. if the people reading Hacker News WERE ACTUALLY HACKERS they
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
or, to put it another way, why not an API?
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
can we get an API?
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Ask HN: why not an API?
15 points by giles_bowkett 18y ago|9 comments
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
No matter how small you try to make it, it's always there. If you try to make it smaller you'll just push part of it below your conscious perception. Then it's a big freaking iceberg destroying things and you don't even know. Better to dise
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
I wouldn't mind a link to my blog but I never fill out profiles in any level of detail beyond that.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
I posted on casual encounters that I wanted to meet a chick to get busy in a Burger King bathroom because I love that Humpty Hump song and got a bunch of responses. Some included naked pictures. The only thing I put in my ad was a Burger Ki
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
Yes it's wonderful to leverage community but the way to get hired is A) find people who are hiring; B) develop skills which are in demand, and/or advertize that you have them; or C) do something interesting that makes hiring people find you
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
this belongs on Reddit, not Hacker News. hate to say I told you so. :-p
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
Python Paradox. You whippersnappers need to read Paul Graham's best stuff!
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
you know when the Christians bail, they say, "professionally, we are fucking OVER."
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
who didn't see this coming? it all goes tribal. all of it. read "here comes everybody" and "snow crash."
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
orange name == massive design flaw
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
google "clay shirky micropayments", kids.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
design flaw.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
I totally disagree with this. First of all, Joel is an idiot. I think this is fact. I think we all know this, and those of us who don't know yet will find out sooner or later. More importantly, this whole "how to disagree" thing is about
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
design flaw. http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/summon-monsters-ope... hate to carp on it, nobody likes hearing I told you so, but a design flaw is a design flaw.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
woah, this karma thing is worse than I thought. downmodding my opinion, I hope you all die. anyway, for what it's worth, because I'm thinking out loud, the thing w/both Arrington and Sierra is it's live by the sword, die by the sword. espec
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
and people call me a troll. :-p casual sex is awesome. although it does get old. but even then it's awesome. I'd rather have casual sex than a meaningful cheeseburger.
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
here's the fucked up thing about Arrington. I'm not surprised this happened to him; I think everybody should pay attention to the fact that this happened; and I think it will happen again, because when he speculated about the spitter, he as
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by giles_bowkett 18y ago
"kill yourself" is hardly a nice thing to say, under any conditions.

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