Cool. I think you should have the names of the people on the frontpage - by their pictures or whatever. Sometimes the reviews don't mention the name of the person, and then it's impossible to tell who they are.
This is exactly what I said a few weeks ago about Google pulling out. They are the Yahoo of China. Nobody gives a crap about them. People in the US are so ignorant of other countries that they believe whatever narrow-minded nonsense the media tells them. When I went to China 10 years ago, all I heard before going was how tightly censored the web was. Instead, I was able to go to CNN, WashingtonPost, and all my other normal news sites. Facebook is supposed to be banned in China, and yet somehow I'm able to communicate with my Facebook friends in China regularly. And I've never, ever been blocked from them.
Good thing for Warren that he got to learn under Graham directly. Getting rejected from med school isn't quite the same as getting rejected from college.
You have to understand that there is a difference between real Facebook users and older users who just made accounts so they could feel that they were participating in social networking. Real Facebook users have tons of personal information on their accounts. They are more reluctant to use Connect to login to other websites for the same reason that people don't use their real names when making user names. Older Facebook users don't have the type of network to actual get much use out of Facebook. They actually think Facebook is a place to meet people, a notion a real user would consider completely ridiculous. Older users don't view Facebook as an online portrait of their offline lives and are more likely to use Connect.
How on Earth is that trolling? I completely refuted your argument, and you can't respond so you call it trolling. None of those people were 30-year-old career software engineers who had achieved nothing and dreamed of entrepreneurship. They were all already successful.
And I know Hacker News is mostly that type of person, but you people need a reality check. You can downvote all you want, but it won't change anything. I bet you really wish it could because forums like this are probably all you have left. You're going to wake up tomorrow and do what you're doing. I'm going to wake up tomorrow and do what you dream of doing.
Why don't you actually read my comment? I said that old people with no achievements aren't going to suddenly become great entrepreneurs.
Jimmy Wales - extremely successful options and futures trader
Steve Jobs - I forget what company he was involved with before NeXT, but I think it was pretty big
Jeff Bezos - one of the top people at D.E. Shaw, right under Shaw himself
John McCarthy - programming languages don't really count as entrepreneurship, but I'm sure you could find many examples of old people creating languages
Marc Benioff - youngest VP in Oracle history
David Winer - I really have no idea what UserLand is
Larry Ellison - ok, fine. I guess if you're trying to make
Oracle, it's ok to be old. I don't mean that as a slight to Oracle, but I don't think Oracle's story applies to web startups.
PG - I didn't say anything about old people not being able to become investors
Most users are old people, but most users are also sheep. The shepherds are not old people. Name some great tech companies created by unaccomplished old people who just decided to flip on the entrepreneurial switch.
Great story and a perfect illustration of why old people shouldn't shoot for the stars. Old people do not understand tech trends. They try to, but it is beyond their ability. Friendster was a site created by old people, run by people, and filled with old people users. Anything that starts from the old will never migrate to the young. Old people are not leaders. They do not determine the trends. Facebook got it right from the start by restricting it to colleges. I'm sure people wanted to open it up sooner, but the talented young leaders of Facebook knew that the next big thing would be determined by how young people choose to adopt it. Old people would follow like cattle later on, which they did. Facebook even made sure to hire young talent at the start because any bad hire would hurt the company when it was small. If you haven't made something of yourself by 30, don't think you're gonna quit your job as a career software engineer and come up with the next big thing. If you wanna do a start-up, you're only chance is to create a lifestyle business or maybe have a mild exit, which is still pretty good.
Sorry, but that's a really bad example. Of course a complete beginner is going to be worse than someone with experience. They don't know what to look for in the game.
He has never asked for anything like that, and his decision not to accept the Fields was made long before the controversy with Yau. He is a purist who doesn't see the value in that type of recognition. The work is reward in and of itself. His choice to quit mathematics, however, was based on his complaints about its politics and lack of integrity, but even this was not directed at his work on the Poincare. Since this is so far off the mark, I thought that that article you cited must be really bad. It isn't. Why don't you try reading it again?
This is what one of those nerdy, but not actually smart, kids in class went on to do. The others seem to be on HN. If you can't figure out why saying two collections of points "look alike" doesn't mean anything, then it's no surprise you think Outliers makes a compelling argument.
He didn't actually have any offers. The WePay people just made that up to make it seem like they snatched someone from Google or Facebook for no pay. Pretty pathetic.