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Middle-aged men: do not try and dress like teenagers, you can't pull it off with a beer gut and your t-shirt tucked-in your cargo shorts held up by an early '90s braided leather belt. Also, don't wear designer running shoes with white, anklet socks unless you intend to be competing in a road race.

Use the right tools for the job. Over and out.

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A 23 year-old moron wingnut lacking in education and understanding warns similar species of non-existent threats. That and breaking news at eleven.

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What basic tenet were you on about, anyways?

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It's the New England School of Law, a fourth tier school. Any self-respecting Jew is already embarrassed enough to go there.

Also, a very poor submission. Was theDonkey working the stereotype angle?

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Man, I could sure use a backrub and a little toot right now.

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Smyrna High School, class of 1977.

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"It's so many years of my life just thrown away," he says.

Ha, ha, ha. One glance at this guy and his story and it's an obvious he's trying to sell us a load of old famous.

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I senz shoop

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Nope. We all know it's the Muslims who are terrists; when Americans commit acts of Patriotism, they're HEROES.

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I noticed that as well, but then realized that the titalific theme of the bewbiegraph was being applied to errthang.

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no, the nipple-looking circle represents the amount of body fat contained within the breast vs. body fat in the rest of the body, represented by the globulous, flesh-colored ord that delights the senses.

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I can help you with that:The Trouble With The Segway

Mr. Graham seems to equate using a Segway as being a homosexual, or better yet, in his terms "a homo". In this short essay he will then go further to explain that being called "a homo" is an insult and thus you would not want to be caught using a Segway as, in his mind, that would imply you're gay and being gay is a bad thing. He doesn't expand on the evils of homosexuality, but the implication is there. I did not conduct a poll in reference to what gay people think of being associated with the Segway, but if anyone wants to chime in, please do.

What he forgets to mention is that the inventor of the Segway, one Dean Fucking Kamen, has dedicated his life to developing alternative products to enable those living with physical anomalies to lead healthier, productive lives much more integrated with mainstream society than they would have had they continued the use of traditional products, e.g. the Segway vs. the wheelchair. For this he incurred the wrath of one Paul Graham, inventor of a self-service shopping cart product that hemorrhaged money until Yahoo snapped them up and cargo-cultist empresario who can't say no to VC money yet he continuously props himself up as the leader of the lean startup movement.

Kamen markets products that enable people to be independent in society, Graham derides them like a schoolyard bully because of the way he thinks they look. How simple-minded is that?

Now, I don't own a Segway nor do I use any other Kamen products, but when I see a person suffering from MS and using a Segway over a scooter or wheelchair (much maligned products), I know that they're making an effort to maintain not only their independence and well being, but also their dignity and the last thing they need is a cunt like Paul Graham to be hating on them.

If that doesn't touch any pain points for you, please ask Mr. Graham what he thinks of one Dale Chihuly, the artist. Mr. Graham also has a bone to pick with Mr. Chihuly, no doubt out of jealously as we all know Paul fancies himself an artist yet has not been able to find success in the market. A pattern, Mr. Graham? Anyways, you'll find that Dale Chihuly works with glass and unfortunately he's missing an eye and requires assistants to actually form the glass for him as his vision is impaired. What's a guy to do? Well, if you're Paul Graham, you chastise Dale Chihuly for exploiting cheap labor. Not that any cult-loving asshole who advocates starvation and sleep deprivation has ever been accused of that.

For the record, I've now expended way too much energy on writing about Paul Graham and not enough writing code. Something Paul ought to consider.

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without names, these failbook memes never happened.

also, the people who toil in the belief that "come see me" actually works, I have news for you. Even if you do have any authority, which you don't, because you toil in the world that believes that "come see me" actually works, because as the news says, even if, it doesn't so because.

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That's fine. Unfortunately if you only strive to deal with people you like, you're going to evolve into a group-thinker and miss out on many opportunities, not to mention acquire newfound sensibilities to anything that may disrupt your astroturfed environment. It's a natural phenomenon, just look at the world around you, so nothing new there.

But look at the people who go out there and succeed. They look for new challenges in potentially hostile environments and work hard to find success, regardless of the barriers, whether they be intellectual, financial or personal. They get uncomfortable.

It's no secret that the communities who thrive are those that bring together peoples of diverse cultures to meld together and build an exciting, progressive environment. Paul Graham is not one of those people. He's an ivy-league, clubby doctorate who's trying to find a business advantage under the guise of philanthropy.

He starts to sound really silly once you compare what he says to the actual business practices he'll need to employ in order to survive, coupled with the reality on the ground. Paul Graham is going to insist you not be an asshole.

Also, shouldn't this post be listed under Business and not Programming?

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I was way past the age and experience level that an incubator would find attractive by the time I became aware of Y Combinator. Also, I have never applied to any other incubator or similar program, nor do I believe I would get anything out of it. I don't fit the profile of someone they're looking for. Just so you guys know, vanilla graduates from an incubator are considered by real VC's to be of junior level in both business and tech experience and not real heavyweights with patentable IP or a longterm moneymaking concern. Yes, they'll upvote Paul Graham's nonsense and pat the alumni on the head, but hey, it's all networking and in order to network correctly, you need to be friends with everyone. Life's a popularity contest.

In case you're still thinking that Paul Graham is just opinionated and some times comes across as arrogant or too British or some nonsense, just rewind the video to the part where he states his no asshole rule.

He'll only deal with people he likes. He doesn't care about you, your ideas, experience or anything else. He just wants you to be obedient and docile little supplicants whose projects he can mold to his liking and take credit in case you succeed a little at a very low cost to him.

I get it, he doesn't want any troublemakers in his house. Who would? But all he's really being is a big-mouthed hypocrite, because if I were an asshole with a profitable company in need of cash at an undervalued price, Mr Graham would forget his table manners and write me a check for a piece of my business. "No asshole" requirements fulfilled or not.

Let's see him somehow apply the "no asshole" rule in his contracts. What is he going to do? Define what an asshole is? Insist you don't act like one? Take his money back if he catches you being one? How fucking stupid does that all sound now?

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No, this is a guy who over-prepared himself for the part and decided that his rather boring hike had to be shared with everyone else. Obvious virgin is obvious, but the lack of a hairless, smooth brow denotes that our candidate is not, in fact, a chemo user.

Last week I hiked from the Long's Peak Trailhead to Grand Lake

That comment by the poster told us everything we needed to know in order to pass judgement:

He did not take it today, thus it's not like "OMFG I can't believe the view must post to Reddit right now", denoting that he took his time after the fact to single out one semi-favorable photo.
We see two packs and one subject, suggesting a photographer, but the posting is not titled "My buddy Steve resting with a humongous rock in the background", it's title "Lunch on my way to Long's Peak" and no mention is made of a companion in the comment, either. The existence of a photographer is not only never acknowledged, but removed altogether. Must've been a fun four days.

This guy's a self-centered asshole who decided to post a mundane picture of himself in the midst of an activity he normally doesn't do in order to draw attention to himself, as if anyone would be impressed by 36 miles in four days or his fashion/hygiene choices. He wasn't sharing, he was attention whoring.

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Paul Graham is an asshole. Just read any of his essays. His true self comes out as he derides the handicapped and minorities, people who in the greater context of life, don't really need yet another asshole kicking them while they're down.

Paul Graham is an asshole who thinks it's ok to discriminate against people he doesn't like. It's as simple as that. For cover he'll label those people with a derogatory term that will negate them equal standing amongst their peers.

Paul Graham is an asshole who wants young developers to enter his program and become entrenched in his mindset of what he wants you to be all the while getting the first crack at your talent at an undervalued price. Paul Graham is a lazy whoremonger.

Paul Graham is an asshole who sold an app to Yahoo! back in the early days and has been living off of his self-inflated importance ever since. Paul Graham is an asshole who doesn't develop any more yet finds the time to pen stories about how other people should or shouldn't be doing things.

I don't like Paul Graham because I think he's has-been opportunist who uses his bully pulpit to well, bully people. Paul Graham, you're an asshole.

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Your composition is what is known as "boring attention-whoring". From what I can see, you haven't even broken a sweat yet, you look too faux-hippy with your clean-shaven face, the goatee and the bandana seem to reference some sort of anarchist trend yet are displayed more like "confused redneck". That's just from the first glance.

Secondarily, what makes your composition so anti-compelling, aside from the fact that you posed yourself right smak in the middle with your gear spread out, is that you don't tell a story of hardship, sacrifice, engagement with nature or even try to elicit an emotion with the viewer. It lacks humanity.

One can only hope that this image is part of a set where some unsuspecting hiker comes into conflict with a dumpster-diving bear hell-bent on finding something, or someone, to eat.

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You're statistically white, male, christian, of average or below average intelligence and education, conservative/fascist-leaning union member who feels entitled above the people you're paid to protect and you have a weird fascination towards firearms and punishment. As a body whole, you have a long history of abuse and corruption, repression and discrimination along with a constant whine of poverty that increases to a holler during contract years yet remains silent when confronted with the budget cuts that affect the rest of the population. You also tend to physically and mentally over-react to minority-based crime and tend to do the exact opposite, standing together in abject silence when confronted with the crimes of your own.

To break it down for you, statistically speaking, you're under-achieving and unintelligent garbage who thinks they deserve steadily increasing rewards and powers to enable them to keep up ever-changing world around them. You're a welfare queen in an ill-fitting uniform. Now shut the fuck up.

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I was able to deduce through eyesight and good taste that one Doobie Baker, Esq., is not much of an artist nor should he be providing mentorship or instruction to anyone.

Two: having a hobby does not make you an artist, and serious artists do not spend their time inking derelicts at a neon-lit shop decorated with a fantasy/skull/outlaw motif under the tutelage of men named Doobie. Mkay?

Also, tattoo-attention-whoring is unseemly and boring. You heard it here first.

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Let me scratch your itch.

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Well, depending on your social and economic strata, tattoos can formulate the context of how well you're able to integrate and prosper. In your case, this hand piece tells me that you live at a campground during the off-season and keep eyeballing one of them jobs at the Walmart as a stable alternative to oh, "just fixing shit for a guy", so I guess you're doing pretty well.

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Just an aside, they're from the Glory for Christ Footbal League, so that ought to tell you something right off the bat. http://www.georgiafootballleague.com/ And in typical ignorant, religious fanatic fashion, they even have a part of their website dedicated to the christian tradition of "how to get something even if you're undeserving for only $50". Suckers.

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He shouldn't waste his time.

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