What is your favorite/most inspiring PG essay or Hackernews comment?
My favorite:
http://www.paulgraham.com/altair.html
Isn't he the "if you don't like lisp you're a stupid" guy?
>>59445860
Yes. Also, basically a fraudster and one-trick pony.
Paul Graham raped and killed a girl in 1990.
>>59444981
The one in which he claims that 9/11 was a buffer overflow.
http://www.paulgraham.com/hijack.html
What a shithead. He later removed this essay from the list of essays on his site.
>>59445954
re-read the essay cia nigger.
>>59445954
>I'm gonna use 9/11 to push my Lisp agenda
Wew, Lispers are really subhumans.
>>59445860
he is right on that thought
>>59446158
Too bad no one listen to him.
>>59444981
Most inspiring on a personal and professional level:
http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html
I also found his recent essay on Wealth Inequality quite interesting. It's very solid refutation of that common far leftist canard that wealth inequality is the root of all evil and capitalism is a zero sum game:
http://www.paulgraham.com/ineq.html
>Poverty and economic inequality are not identical. When the city is turning off your water because you can't pay the bill, it doesn't make any difference what Larry Page's net worth is compared to yours. He might only be a few times richer than you, and it would still be just as much of a problem that your water was getting turned off.
>Some who read this essay will say that I'm clueless or even being deliberately misleading by focusing so much on the richer end of economic inequality—that economic inequality is really about poverty. But that is exactly the point I'm making, though sloppier language than I'd use to make it. The real problem is poverty, not economic inequality. And if you conflate them you're aiming at the wrong target.
>>59445933
Who? Do you have proof?
>>59447774
it's an old meme about glen beck newfag