Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler

Re:Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler by thimkerbell on Thursday August 10, 2023 @02:18AM (#37072575)

You have seen his essay addressing that? "What I Worked On", http://paulgraham.com/worked.html

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Re:Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler by city_guy_1 on Thursday August 10, 2023 @12:48PM (#37078534)

Thanks for linking that; seems like it's a bit of both:

on one hand he notes that "computers were expensive in those days and it took me years of nagging before I convinced my father to buy one, a TRS-80, in about 1980", but later during his adult years "wanted to go back to RISD, but I was now broke and RISD was very expensive, so I decided to get a job for a year and then return to RISD the next fall."

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