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(pest) dulapbot: (trilema) 2016-08-17 phf: Framedragger: i was young and a bum, i recognized all these people because my entertainment machine would reinforce their presence for me. "oh jwz is talking. oh now it's ptacek. oh it's paul graham! squee". but they were always in a different category from say norvig or knuth or naggum. once i started doing and learning (i.e. painfully read knuth, rather than just have him on my shelf) i finally was able to grok the difference.
(pest) phf[asciilifeform]: valuators, hand written small lisps that highlight the essential features. “Lisp” became more prevalent as the languages matured and diversified, and the subjects of exploration moved significantly beyond “cons cells” and “self modifying code”. the usage cemented not as a result of paul graham, but because in t
(pest) dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2022-07-27 gregorynyssa: the cult-following which developed around Paul Graham and Arc shot down the usage of LISP.
(asciilifeform) gregorynyssa: the cult-following which developed around Paul Graham and Arc shot down the usage of LISP.
(asciilifeform) gregorynyssa: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/pest/2022-07-27#1010754 << Paul Graham was not the first to use "Lisp" to refer to the class, but LISP was also prevalent until his 2000s essays, which settled the matter.
(pest) dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2022-07-27 gregorynyssa: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/pest/2022-07-27#1010729 << the use of "Lisp" (uppercase L, lowercase "isp") to refer to CL, Scheme, etc. collectively is a "Paul Grahamism."
(asciilifeform) gregorynyssa: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/pest/2022-07-27#1010729 << the use of "Lisp" (uppercase L, lowercase "isp") to refer to CL, Scheme, etc. collectively is a "Paul Grahamism."
(asciilifeform) phf: i have to say, right before paul graham corrupted the place with the whole "startup nerd" culture, it did feel kind of exciting. i remember superhappydevhouse events, where bunch of hackers meet, spend the evening into the night, hack on things, discuss it. not many hanger ons at events like that, so it was a kind of festival of cool hacking
(asciilifeform) adlai: you're forgetting that Common Lisp was standardized for computers that existed then, and still exist now; it's not Arc, which Paul Graham wrote (writes?) with the stated goal of only seeming sane after half a century has elapsed.
(asciilifeform) phf: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-04-16#1096216 << that whole subthread is silly and self serving. the whole DSL movement was part and parcel of the second lisp revival. paul graham's two lisp books, on lisp and ansi common lisp explicitly explored the subject of DSLs (he credited the success of yahoo stores to his ability to write small languages). the idea of DSLs was also picked up by python and ruby developers around
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: (trilema) 2018-04-20 mircea_popescu: the "5k user discord server" is not substantially different from a piece of paper on which you wrote the number 5 followed by the letter k, or for that matter paul graham's yahoo scam ( http://trilema.com/2015/investigations-in-the-bone-heap-of-the-lost-generation-today-mashable/#footnote_6_59020 / http://trilema.com/2014/the-psychology-of-the-bagholder/#selection-117.0-117.539 ).
(asciilifeform) mangol: see also The Four Quadrants of Conformism, recent essay by PG (a high-functioning bipolar lisper)
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: (trilema) 2016-01-08 asciilifeform: 'Paul Graham is one of those plutocrats whose thirst to be recognized as a thoughtleader among his peers is obvious. For Paul Graham, Silicon Valley Ideology is the ideology America should run on, and ergo, being a puppet of Silicon Valley Ideology, Paul Graham thinks himself a political genius.'
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: (trilema) 2016-08-17 phf: Framedragger: i was young and a bum, i recognized all these people because my entertainment machine would reinforce their presence for me. "oh jwz is talking. oh now it's ptacek. oh it's paul graham! squee". but they were always in a different category from say norvig or knuth or naggum. once i started doing and learning (i.e. painfully read knuth, rather than just have him on my shelf) i finally was able to grok the difference.
(asciilifeform) dulapbot: Logged on 2022-02-10 01:38:13 thimbronion: pg = paul graham, the y combinator guy
(asciilifeform) snsabot: (trilema) 2016-08-17 phf: Framedragger: i was young and a bum, i recognized all these people because my entertainment machine would reinforce their presence for me. "oh jwz is talking. oh now it's ptacek. oh it's paul graham! squee". but they were always in a different category from say norvig or knuth or naggum. once i started doing and learning (i.e. painfully read knuth, rather than just have him on my shelf) i finally was able to grok the difference.
(asciilifeform) snsabot: (trilema) 2016-08-18 asciilifeform: 'In Paul Graham's world, as soon as oil paint was invented, painting techniques made a discontinuous jump from the fifteenth to the twentienth century, fortuitously allowing Renaissance painters to paint a lot like Paul Graham. ... I blame Eric Raymond and to a lesser extent Dave Winer for bringing this kind of schlock writing onto the Internet. Raymond is the original perpetrator of the "what is a hacker?" essay, in which you quickl
(spyked) feedbot: http://verisimilitudes.net/2020-05-15 << A Syndication of Verisimilitudes -- A Review of ``Hackers & Painters'' by Paul Graham
(asciilifeform) feedbot: http://verisimilitudes.net/2020-05-15 << A Syndication of Verisimilitudes -- A Review of ``Hackers & Painters'' by Paul Graham
(trilema) mp_en_viaje: . QUADRINGA, you see, not ~everyone~, but this one ~particular~ femstate agent specifically, represented itself. it's not EXACTLY IDENTICAL to the case of usg.okcupid or usg.fetlife or usg.airbnb or usg.[http://trilema.com/2013/the-poster-child-for-
(trilema) a111: Logged on 2018-09-08 15:52 asciilifeform: paulgraham -- before turning into the infamous huckster -- had a piece where 'which biznis should you get into if you LUVV gardening?' '...recovering data from damaged hard disks!'
(trilema) mp_en_viaje chuckles thinking back on the dfays of http://trilema.com/2012/lets-have-fun-with-paul-graham/ ; remember back when internet "people" actually thought paul graham has shit to say on topics and things ?
(trilema) mircea_popescu: but anyway, it's a refinement on paul graham's scam ( http://trilema.com/2015/investigations-in-the-bone-heap-of-the-lost-generation-today-mashable/#footnote_6_59020 )
(trilema) asciilifeform: ( there was a related mircea_popescu piece re paulgraham et al, in re how they tried to cargocult-revive orig 'dotcom' bacchanalia )
(trilema) asciilifeform: paulgraham -- before turning into the infamous huckster -- had a piece where 'which biznis should you get into if you LUVV gardening?' '...recovering data from damaged hard disks!'
(trilema) mircea_popescu: because they permitted all sorts of patibulaires take over the show. with retards like marc shitdressen and paul graham handling the funding, usg tech went to shit.
(trilema) a111: Logged on 2018-04-20 05:05 mircea_popescu: the "5k user discord server" is not substantially different from a piece of paper on which you wrote the number 5 followed by the letter k, or for that matter paul graham's yahoo scam ( http://trilema.com/2015/investigations-in-the-bone-heap-of-the-lost-generation-today-mashable/#footnote_6_59020 / http://trilema.com/2014/the-psychology-of-the-bagholder/#selection-117.0-117.539 ).
(trilema) mircea_popescu: the "5k user discord server" is not substantially different from a piece of paper on which you wrote the number 5 followed by the letter k, or for that matter paul graham's yahoo scam ( http://trilema.com/2015/investigations-in-the-bone-heap-of-the-lost-generation-today-mashable/#footnote_6_59020 / http://trilema.com/2014/the-psychology-of-the-bagholder/#selection-117.0-117.539 ).
(trilema) a111: Logged on 2016-08-17 17:13 phf: Framedragger: i was young and a bum, i recognized all these people because my entertainment machine would reinforce their presence for me. "oh jwz is talking. oh now it's ptacek. oh it's paul graham! squee". but they were always in a different category from say norvig or knuth or naggum. once i started doing and learning (i.e. painfully read knuth, rather than just have him on my shelf) i finally was able to grok the difference.
(trilema) mircea_popescu: what, the loud nonsense of http://trilema.com/2015/you-know-what-gets-no-airplay-unflattering-truth/#selection-159.66-159.71 and well-placed spammers/fraudsters like http://trilema.com/2012/lets-have-fun-with-paul-graham/ changed something ?
(trilema) mircea_popescu: so, look at the shit krugman was churning out, or for that matter look at the shit paul graham was churning out. or yes, yarvin.
(trilema) mircea_popescu: ah right, that's the end. he's not trying to get anyone to "buy his picks", he's trying to get the lesser scammers to pay him for his supposed crystal ball publicity services. the paul graham scam.
(trilema) asciilifeform: and yes, i have the vlsi textbook. ( i also have paul graham's lisps, and schneier's 1993 encyclopaedia, even!111 )
(trilema) mircea_popescu: !!rate matthrew garret -10 "former klout expert on paul graham". irredeemable shithead.
(trilema) mircea_popescu: that's ok, the salaries have been slimming continuously. soon enough shinohai 's girls will be making more than paul graham's bois.
(trilema) mircea_popescu: it's somewhat funny, in the side pocket, how paul graham's idle verbiage about "the power of tech entrepreneurs to reinvest and create wealth" ENTIRELY ignores how without exceptrion his chosen field consists of mark cubans, ie dorks who made away with a large pile of corporate loot in a very madoffian manner and then just kept piddling it away.
(trilema) mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-21#1587072 << the evolution of paul graham's internet : first, ashley madison made a site where scripted "women" interacted with loser men ; then, a bunch of kids made a bunch of sites where scripted "users" interact with scripted "users" : facebook, reddit, instagram, twitter, you name it. ALL of them, simply put.
(trilema) mircea_popescu: in proper terms : even the empire figured out the incredibly tenuous position of google, who a) provides no useful service and b) survives exactly out of yahoo-style ponzi scheme (as described by paul graham, one of its architects pre dot com bubble)
(trilema) mircea_popescu: pedophile old men like paul graham & friends used to CORRUPT the athenian youth
(trilema) asciilifeform: 'In Paul Graham's world, as soon as oil paint was invented, painting techniques made a discontinuous jump from the fifteenth to the twentienth century, fortuitously allowing Renaissance painters to paint a lot like Paul Graham. ... I blame Eric Raymond and to a lesser extent Dave Winer for bringing this kind of schlock writing onto the Internet. Raymond is the original perpetrator of the "what is a hacker?" essay, in which you quickl
(trilema) mircea_popescu: that my freedom requires the ability to send paul graham to his room without supper does not show that same freedom requires my ability to send Maciej Cegłowski. hes doing fine
(trilema) mircea_popescu: " In Paul Graham's world, as soon as oil paint was invented, painting techniques made a discontinuous jump from the fifteenth to the twentienth century, fortuitously allowing Renaissance painters to paint a lot like Paul Graham. And the difficult problems the new medium supposedly helped painters solve just happened to resemble the painting problems that confront an enthusiastic but not particularly talented art student. I ho
(trilema) a111: Logged on 2016-08-17 17:13 phf: Framedragger: i was young and a bum, i recognized all these people because my entertainment machine would reinforce their presence for me. "oh jwz is talking. oh now it's ptacek. oh it's paul graham! squee". but they were always in a different category from say norvig or knuth or naggum. once i started doing and learning (i.e. painfully read knuth, rather than just have him on my shelf) i finally was able to grok the difference.
(trilema) Framedragger: phf: ha, nice. well, fair. (it made me warm inside to recall that i *never* took paul graham for much; anyone who reads only a bit by him on stuff that they know something about will realize this; e.g. http://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm (this is the "website obesity" guy))
(trilema) phf: Framedragger: i was young and a bum, i recognized all these people because my entertainment machine would reinforce their presence for me. "oh jwz is talking. oh now it's ptacek. oh it's paul graham! squee". but they were always in a different category from say norvig or knuth or naggum. once i started doing and learning (i.e. painfully read knuth, rather than just have him on my shelf) i finally was able to grok the difference.
(trilema) mircea_popescu: but who knows, maybe if they give google its cut they'll be able to place bonds in a year or two again. paul graham has the details.
(trilema) mircea_popescu: moreover, his notions of paul graham as the victim scarcely meet yours. for that matter mine - it is rare to see a confessed ponzi fraudster go free to "advise" young people on "their careers".
(trilema) asciilifeform: http://paulgraham.com/selfindulgence.html << where he discusses falling rocks
(trilema) mircea_popescu: hey, paul graham was harping about how "that's important" and "the core of america's prosperity", that he and the rest of his inept friends, govt lottery winners, "invest" and so cause economic growth
(trilema) asciilifeform: 'if yer so smart, why aintcha rich!' 'paulgraham hates you, the gods forsake you'
(trilema) assbot: Logged on 09-02-2016 12:14:00; asciilifeform: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CavCl3PWcAEuJ_7.jpg << paulgrahamocalypse??!!
(trilema) asciilifeform: ( https://medium.com/@girlziplocked/paul-graham-is-still-asking-to-be-eaten-5f021c0c0650#.s0vnaxy5c << source of earlier l0ltr0n)
(trilema) asciilifeform: 'What actually happens is wealthy people like Paul Graham fund startups because they think these things are valuable. Through venture funding, rich people legitimate startups. Thus, they confer value upon the startup. They then use their ridiculous money and connections to advise and mentor those they deemed worthy of capital so that they can use this capital to build a future people like Paul Graham expect to see.
(trilema) asciilifeform: 'Paul Graham is one of those plutocrats whose thirst to be recognized as a thoughtleader among his peers is obvious. For Paul Graham, Silicon Valley Ideology is the ideology America should run on, and ergo, being a puppet of Silicon Valley Ideology, Paul Graham thinks himself a political genius.'
(trilema) asciilifeform: http://paulgraham.com/ineq.html << the piece which provoked the earlier thing
(trilema) asciilifeform: https://medium.com/@girlziplocked/paul-graham-is-asking-to-be-eaten-5acf72aa776f#.nf0nek4rc
(trilema) mircea_popescu: the difference being that businesses happen at the tip of a large pushing force, such as the airbnb scam pushed by paul graham-madoff, or such as "green energy" scam pushed by president bahamas-madoff. to be a start-up is exactly opposite to this, you're alone.
(trilema) mircea_popescu: My sophomore year of college I was a neuroscience major and my plan was to unlock the secrets of the mind and universe. Then I realized that the path of grad school, professor, grants, and incremental research wouldnt be a great way to pursue this goal. At the same time, I read Paul Grahams essay on How to Start a Startup. I felt a strong sense of I could do this! and making a lot of money from a startup
(trilema) mircea_popescu: the funny skit in that paige craig piece being that if paul graham and his merry band of spammers & conmen hadn't "invested", the thing would be worth tgoday what it it;'s been worth throughout : four digits in someone's shitty excel.
(trilema) thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: http://trilema.com/2012/lets-have-fun-with-paul-graham/#comment-99322 << my experience with airbnb
(trilema) gribble: Let's have fun with Paul Graham on Trilema - A blog by Mircea ...: <http://trilema.com/2012/lets-have-fun-with-paul-graham/>; Ycombinator continues to suck, jointly and severally - Mircea Popescu: <http://trilema.com/2013/ycombinator-continues-to-suck-jointly-and-severally/>; You know what gets no airplay ? Unflattering truth. on Trilema - A ...: <http://trilema.com/2015/you- (1 more message)
(trilema) adlai: it doesn't rank well on the brick test, but gets almost perfect marks in pg's http://paulgraham.com/diff.html
(trilema) assbot: Immigration policy is about barriers to entry, not fairness; or how Paul Graham thinks programmers are inventors | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1MVn3kX )
(trilema) pete_dushenski: basically fits the 'obedient, diligent coolies' alf describes in http://www.contravex.com/2014/12/29/immigration-policy-is-about-barriers-to-entry-not-fairness-or-how-paul-graham-thinks-programmers-are-inventors/
(trilema) pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: hehe, presumably via "As to the second point, that America > Europe because the former is in any way free of its own rent-seeking mandarin class, to quote an alf, look no further than USGavin, Paul Graham, Blablalawsky and their continued ability to buy groceries and pay rent."
(trilema) thestringpuller: Paul Graham literally believes the best startups are ones that don't scale: "When I interviewed Mark Zuckerberg at Startup School, he said that while it was a lot of work creating course lists for each school, doing that made students feel the site was their natural home."
(trilema) assbot: Logged on 29-08-2015 13:58:47; mircea_popescu: here's what i propose : paul graham eat 500 calories for every 1k calories he expends.
(trilema) asciilifeform: not sure if this adds anything to mircea_popescu's line of thought, but it is known that paul graham wrote common lisp programs using... vi. this drives me to barking madness after five minutes, and it is difficult to picture what brain might look like after a whole year of it, or what said brain must have looked like to even contemplate doing such a thing.
(trilema) mircea_popescu: here's what i propose : paul graham eat 500 calories for every 1k calories he expends.
(trilema) asciilifeform: lol, how did it go... 'paul graham: programmers, like painters, like making things. audience wag: so do chickens!'
(trilema) asciilifeform: and speaking of which, the paulgrahamian blackout against the story is nearly total.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "the difference between theory and practice is, uh, larger in practice than in theory" << paul graham! whatta dood
(trilema) asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i only remembered the fl tidbit because paul graham blamed it for 'lack of startup culture in fl'
(trilema) ascii_field: (paulgraham, pre-braindamage, called the difference 'good taste' but not sure if this is descriptive)
(trilema) asciilifeform: https://octopart.com/search?q=marvell%20%2088F6192 << interestingly, it's either extinct or octo (a paul graham co.!) lies, lies.
(trilema) asciilifeform: (for readers not zoologically-inclined: herr altman is paul graham's right-hand man / catamite)
(trilema) mircea_popescu: decimation: from $67,300 in 2014 to $61,287 this << remember the lulzy "need immigration to maintain geniusness of industree" paul graham nonsense ?
(trilema) mircea_popescu: the mirror-image infantilized 20something bois are idem fighting for paul graham's right to pay them nothing while turning them into a strange sort of pulp fiction's gimp
(trilema) mircea_popescu: i blame undressen horowitz and paul graham and fucking bill gates. that's who i blame.
(trilema) assbot: Immigration policy is about barriers to entry, not fairness; or how Paul Graham thinks programmers are inventors | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1xKEm4H )
(trilema) pete_dushenski: asciilifeform http://www.contravex.com/2014/12/29/immigration-policy-is-about-barriers-to-entry-not-fairness-or-how-paul-graham-thinks-programmers-are-inventors/#comment-7994
(trilema) assbot: Paul Graham Appears Confused about Supply and Demand, Labor and Visas, and “Great Programmers” — Medium ... ( http://bit.ly/1zJpiRN )
(trilema) decimation: this guy http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/resume/ wrote another paul graham rebuttal >> https://medium.com/@reppep/paul-graham-appears-confused-about-supply-and-demand-labor-and-visas-and-great-programmers-d1d4854bc928
(trilema) assbot: Immigration policy is about barriers to entry, not fairness; or how Paul Graham thinks programmers are inventors | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1ydPCYN )
(trilema) pete_dushenski: ;;later tell asciilifeform http://www.contravex.com/2014/12/29/immigration-policy-is-about-barriers-to-entry-not-fairness-or-how-paul-graham-thinks-programmers-are-inventors/#comment-7651
(trilema) assbot: Immigration policy is about barriers to entry, not fairness; or how Paul Graham thinks programmers are inventors | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1ydPp80 )
(trilema) pete_dushenski: http://www.contravex.com/2014/12/29/immigration-policy-is-about-barriers-to-entry-not-fairness-or-how-paul-graham-thinks-programmers-are-inventors/
(trilema) adlai: "Reporters sometimes call a few additional sources on their own, like someone adding a few fresh vegetables to a can of soup." http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
(trilema) decimation: the rwcg guy nitpicked the paul graham immigration essay https://rwcg.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/paul-graham-on-immigration/
(trilema) Apocalyptic: <asciilifeform> paul graham << what the everliving fuck is a 'great programmer' anyway // he gave some interesting property of such a creature, but no definition alas
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://paulgraham.com/ecw.html << run many models; run as many evaluations on those models as is practical and reweight the decisionmaking balance regularly; most ideas are bad ideas so try to find the smart people. did i miss anything?
(trilema) BingoBoingo: He had money and instead of doing the Paul Graham get bought as fast as possible thing, he built himself a playground.
(trilema) mircea_popescu: "come see paul graham read aramaic at the bottom of his start-up hat, and then translate it with the herpimm and the derpimm, two magical entrepreneurial stones from ancient egypt."
(trilema) mircea_popescu: at least, this was the approach favoured by socrates and his school (platon, aristotel). which brings us back to the problem with paul graham : he is exactly the sort of scandalous ignoramus the us produces these days.
(trilema) asciilifeform: 'Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, and Trevor Blackwell --- Co-Founder, Y Combinator'; 'Blair Glencorse --- Founder, Accountability Lab (Washington, DC, USA; Liberia; Nepal)' << what kind of satanic circus is this
(trilema) gribble: Release early, release often - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_early,_release_often>; Release Early, Release Often - Catb.org: <http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html>; The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn - Paul Graham: <http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html>
(trilema) xmj: Also, for once I agree with Paul Graham https://twitter.com/paulg/status/512776361824354304
(trilema) mircea_popescu: <benkay> wow paul graham doesn't appear to have published a pgp key. << why would he lol.
(trilema) ninjashogun: Fine, you can call Paul Graham (pg@ycoombinator.com) and ask about Robert Viragh.
(trilema) mircea_popescu: wasn't the new paul graham derping about how they "frown" on corps that went through other "accelerators" because they should have been already accelerated ?
(trilema) thestringpuller: http://trilema.com/2012/lets-have-fun-with-paul-graham/#comment-99322 << MarieLynn
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(trilema) mircea_popescu: (if not, graham explains it better than i could : http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html )
(trilema) ninjashogun: mirceau - could I have a copy of http://trilema.com/2012/lets-have-fun-with-paul-graham/ please? It was linked from this interesting http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/01/01/how-silicon-valley-could-learn-to-bitcoin-part1/ that BingoBoingo linked me.
(trilema) BingoBoingo: I howeveer an still willing to coach Paul Graham and be his Nick Saban for 100 BTC/year
(trilema) herbijudlestoids: BingoBoingo: is he a fin services guy? i can see someone paul graham fin services on linkedin
(trilema) Mats_cd03: I spend a lot of time with active mil guys and policy analysts and I'll suspend my jokes to say that extremism is a serious transnational problem...there are academics like paul graham that believe a rogue nuke will be definitely be used in the next two decades
(trilema) BingoBoingo: So... anyways Slashot in the past six hours has delivered at least two orders of magnitude more traffic to the blog than Paul Graham's shit pit which is a true Ohio of tech news.
(trilema) BingoBoingo: musty: Prolly because someone wants to see the Vaxen run. Also Paul Graham is kind of a quack lately (for values of lately that equal the past 15 years)
(trilema) BingoBoingo: So far Slashdot is driving two orders of magnitude more traffic than Paul Graham's sites
(trilema) BingoBoingo: So... SLashdot doubts the combination of Bitcoin and Billionaire. HF doubts the label Billionaire which Paul Graham lacks.
(trilema) asciilifeform: those are a dime a dozen in paul graham's zoo. how many have so much as heard of landau & lifschitz.
(trilema) benkay: mircea_popescu: http://paulgraham.com/fr.html in which paul graham starts telling people what the fuck to do
(trilema) thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/07/coinlab-the-bitcoin-incubator-announces-first-funded-company-alydian/ - more paul graham plz
(trilema) thestringpuller: mircea_popescu wouldn't you say this quote also applies to Paul Graham? >> " the crappy start-ups that got funding at high valuations are struggling and are unable to get Series B funding, dropping like flies, creating a tech bubble"