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What You'll Wish You'd Known

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the to-boldly-go dept.

sheck writes "Eminent computer scientist, author, painter, and dot-com millionaire, Paul Graham has written down the things he wishes somebody had told him when he was in high school in What You'll Wish You'd Known, suggesting, among other things, that students treat school like a day job, working on interesting projects to avoid what he has found to be the most common regret among adults of their high school days: wasting time."

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  1. What I wish I'd known... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    She was really a he.

  2. first poost by httpamphibio.us · · Score: -1, Troll

    yeeahh dawg

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    sig.
  3. simple by DrSkwid · · Score: -1, Troll


    Windows' usability is a dead end.

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    There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
  4. Let's go kill sandniggers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Great! Let's go kill all them fucking sand niggers. They ain't white, and they ain't got no Jesus, so t'Hell with 'em!

  5. Re:What really matters by rastagromit · · Score: 1, Troll
    That's it? out off all the wonderful, amazing, things in this world? The fun and the heart-wrenching? All you can do is worry about what happens to wyou when you die?

    That's morbid.

    And no, you're not going to Heaven. nobody is. When those neurons stop firing, it's over- quit hiding from it. How about you enjoy the brief few years between now and then? Instead of just accepting some Semitic goat-herder's doublethink (he's god! he's man! he's both!), and boring the rest of us with that particularly inane drivel that is quoting the bible.

  6. Forget High School and College by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Really, just enjoy life and be a slacker. This just means more job security for those of us who have a clue. Besides we need someone to flip burgers and wash our cars.

  7. Re:Math teachers.. by leshert · · Score: 0, Troll

    In other words, they're just like software engineers.

  8. I wish I had known.... by ixl · · Score: 0, Troll

    that Paul Graham is a tedious windbag