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What The Bubble Got Right

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the where's-my-ubiquitous-wireless dept.

dtolton writes "Paul Graham has written an article entitled What the Bubble Got Right. In recent years the roaring tech bubble has become a byword, yet Paul does an excellent job of articulating what it got right."

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  1. bubble? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    What the heck class of jargon is "bubble"?

  2. What did the bubble get right??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This

    But seriously - 20 something billionaire yuppies sans business plan?

  3. Re:Wish I had a job before/during the bubble. by Yallis · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's *pop*, not **BOOM**.

  4. What did the bubble ever do for us? by bartash · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well there's ebay, amazon, google...
    continued at:
    What have the Romans ever done for us?

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  5. I hope my boss is reading this... by viva_fourier · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...26 year olds with good ideas will increasingly have an edge over 50 year olds with powerful connections.

    now go get me some coffee, b@#ch!

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  6. Re:Wish I had a job before/during the bubble. by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll have you know that it was a big damn bubble!

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  7. So let me get this right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The internet, a global thing, is supposed to make it all better, except that I have to move to a single point in space - California - to make that global revolution happen?

  8. Re:Wish I had a job before/during the bubble. by contradyction · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unless the bubble was filled with propane.

  9. Re:Wish I had a job before/during the bubble. by visgoth · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, there was a whole lot of bullshit going on, so maybe it was methane?

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  10. Re:Quit trying to follow the money, and be happy by Vlion · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was told once "C's get degrees."
    Although its true, its also true that people who enjoy their work do the best work.

    I like computers. For good or ill, I spend probably 60+ hours in front of one machine or another doing activities running from homework to coding.

    I enjoy coding, but I don't enjoy it enough to do it for years and years. I'm finding that I far prefer problem solving.

    I notice that many computer science majors enter CS for the money. They usually don't do particularly well, or find an innate interest it.
    I wish them luck in their MBA.

    Others go "hey, this looks fun". These people run the gamut from cruddy to highly skilled.

    And then, there are the g33ks. They were geeks before college, during college, and after college.
    They know their stuff, but tend to be stuck in techie subjects.

    *shrug*

    I'd hire a competent person from class 2 first, a competent communicator from class 3 next, and as gofer, someone from class 1.
    Class 2 will do well beyond techie areas, class 3 are too immersesed in their subject to move beyond it, and class 1 should be in some kind of interface position.

    Personally, I'm somewhere between class 2 and 3. I really enjoy techie stuff, but I also enjoy lots of other subjects. :-)

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  11. Re:Full Text by bluFox · · Score: 3, Funny
    [quoute]. Now women ask me where they can meet nerds. [/quote]

    I cant help thinking that it is in the same league as that of women wanting to marry death row convicts :=

    [link]

    Morbid fascination ??

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