College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek

Re:College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day wo... by akikuchi on Thursday March 19, 2009 @04:54PM (#523982)

I actually enjoy many of the posts about the creative (or at least somewhat non-traditional) things people do as solo entrepreneurs. After reading the entire article though, I do find it funny how this tagline was used to position the article for the HN community. The article is actually much more of a character study than a discussion of a business, and it takes a significant change in content after the first thousand words.

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Re:College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day wo... by dasil003 on Thursday March 19, 2009 @05:37PM (#524047)

Brilliant article, brilliant HN positioning, brilliant page partitioning. Best thing I've read on HN this year.

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Re:College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day wo... by jibiki on Thursday March 19, 2009 @06:07PM (#524073)

The way the article totally changes course on the last page is brilliant. This might be the only news article I've seen that used the hypertext format that well.

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Re:College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day wo... by wallflower on Thursday March 19, 2009 @09:58PM (#524369)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006...

"Luck and perseverance also enter into it. There was one day when I considered not joining Eric at two parties; I was tired, I'd already been to a LOT of parties, I had good material, I wanted to sit down start writing. But I forced myself to go. The first turned out to be the party in the Coxes' house at the top of the story; the second was the party...at the end."

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Re:College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day wo... by brandnewlow on Thursday March 19, 2009 @06:12PM (#524077)

There was a live chat with the author on the Washington Post the week this was published. Someone asked him if the paging was set up this way on purpose and he denied it.

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Re:College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day wo... by palish on Thursday March 19, 2009 @07:02PM (#524150)

I always click 'print this article', then click my Readability bookmarklet ( http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ ). Works 9/10 times and gives a nice speed boost to reading articles. The page partitioning sounds well-done though. I guess writers put a lot of thought into that. (Edit: ... and then I read brandnewlow's comment above mine which refutes that theory. 'Print this article' links rock.)

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Re:College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day wo... by dasil003 on Thursday March 19, 2009 @07:07PM (#524154)

who says editors have no outlet for creative genius...

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Re:College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day wo... by weaksauce on Thursday March 19, 2009 @10:04PM (#524379)

That bookmarklet is great! Thanks for the link. Do you know of a firefox extension that does that to persist across page views?

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