Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business

Re:Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business by steveklabnik on Friday September 04, 2015 @10:14AM (#10170539)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man_theory

  > The theory was popularized in the 1840s by Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle.
  > But in 1860 Herbert Spencer formulated a counter-argument that has remained
  > influential throughout the 20th century to the present; Spencer said that
  > such great men are the products of their societies, and that their actions
  > would be impossible without the social conditions built before their
  > lifetimes.

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Re:Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business by coldtea on Friday September 04, 2015 @10:23AM (#10170618)

As idlewords said, it will take a special man with courage and determination to finally bring down that fallaceous theory :-)

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Re:Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business by ksk on Friday September 04, 2015 @10:56AM (#10170873)

What is the point of linking to such an article? YOU have to do the work and explain how it applies in this case.

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Re:Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business by coldtea on Friday September 04, 2015 @11:52AM (#10171220)

He just left that exercize for the reader. We are all adults here, capable of reading a link and determining if the information in it refutes a prior comment or not.

(And if we don't care enough to do the work, then we can always not do it and just skip the comment with the link).

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Re:Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business by ksk on Friday September 04, 2015 @03:54PM (#10172556)

>We are all adults here, capable of reading a link and determining if the information in it refutes a prior comment or not.

It serves no purpose, because the purpose itself was never mentioned. I asked for one. I don't quite understand why it bothered you.

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Re:Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business by coldtea on Friday September 04, 2015 @04:19PM (#10172674)

Didn't have to be mentioned. It was obvious from context.

>I don't quite understand why it bothered you.

Because of the entitlement ("YOU have to do the work" etc) and the pissing on his contribution ("what's the point of linking to such articles" etc).

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Re:Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business by ksk on Friday September 04, 2015 @08:17PM (#10173380)

I do have a sense of entitlement. I want things to make sense.

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Re:Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business by steveklabnik on Friday September 04, 2015 @11:44AM (#10171171)

I'm providing support for what coldtea is saying by linking to relevant other work.

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