>why would you value a stranger's opinion so highly Mr. Megalomaniac?
I dont think you actually read my post carefully.That did'nt really happen to me.In fact I doubt it can actually happen to anyone since no girl would ever actually ever say something like that.
It was just the lines from the xkcd comic that I thought were insightful.
Re:The problem with having great ideas
by kappaknight on Saturday March 17, 2012 @01:26AM
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I agree. I was trying to pick out the wisdom in this post; I mean, the comic was entertaining I guess. All I gathered was:
1. I had an okay idea and did absolutely nothing about it for 18 months... until I saw other people built what I was thinking.
GUYS, DON'T MAKE THE MISTAKE I DID OF DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
Seriously? That in itself is not a lesson worth 1,000 words.
As in:
Outcome A) working, take a break, visit HN, read linked post, regret wasting my time on terrible blog post, immediately think: I should be working right now, not reading about some supposed megalomaniac's personal problems.
Outcome B) working, take a break, visit HN, read linked post, judge my time well spent learning something of value.
In some form or another I value appraise all HN stories by this scale.
When the guy started talking about getting his feelings hurt by a stranger's nearly worthless opinion (why would you value a stranger's opinion so highly Mr. Megalomaniac?), and then getting wasted accordingly, I knew I was in for a real special read. When he followed that up by calling himself a megalomaniac, I bailed. And it is thus that piece of junk goes in the 'I regret reading any of this' category.