Re:Is Aaron Swartz the Paris Hilton of Web 2.0?
by ajju on Thursday November 15, 2007 @01:32AM
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Have you read the book he is writing? It's much better than most of the crap I read on blogs these days (most of which constitute things like your comparison here: is X like Y? here's why blah blah)
Most of the books he recommends are really good (I just bought "Punished by rewards" after finding it through his site. It's a great book.)
So he doesn't finish his projects and does some drama. So what? His projects are almost always decent (I enjoyed reddit, have played around with web.py, have used books.theinfo.org several times and liked the first few chapters of his novel), sometimes noble (the site giving advice to school kids) and quite often useful.
Get a life and lay off him. The real reason you are doing this is because he got rich of Reddit while still a teenager and you think he didn't deserve it. So what? That's life for you and he's still an o.k. guy.
Re:Is Aaron Swartz the Paris Hilton of Web 2.0?
by Alex3917 on Thursday November 15, 2007 @12:23PM
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If you like Punished by Rewards, then I'd recommend No Contest. I loved Punished by Rewards, but I think No Contest is actually more insightful. And certainly better written.
Most of the books he recommends are really good (I just bought "Punished by rewards" after finding it through his site. It's a great book.)
So he doesn't finish his projects and does some drama. So what? His projects are almost always decent (I enjoyed reddit, have played around with web.py, have used books.theinfo.org several times and liked the first few chapters of his novel), sometimes noble (the site giving advice to school kids) and quite often useful.
Get a life and lay off him. The real reason you are doing this is because he got rich of Reddit while still a teenager and you think he didn't deserve it. So what? That's life for you and he's still an o.k. guy.