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remembering PG's "lisp would have stopped 9/11" essay from September 2001 (paulgraham.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

can't decide if it's soothing or infuriating to learn/realize that, despite insane wealth causing him to get billionairebrain, he's also always been quite the dim fuckwit

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

That's just being good at programming

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

wut

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

That’s just being good at bootlicking

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So as a programmer I was a little offended but then I remembered I’m not good so I’ll let it slide.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

That's probably a mark of an actually good programmer.