Rebuttal to "A hacker's loneliness"
I too "wasted" most of my teens writing "pointless" programs - games in Basic that I never finished, assembly language programs optimized for old computers 20 years obsolete, and C++ programs with extensible architectures that no one else will ever extend. My father always warned me that one day I would wake up and realize I'd wasted my life sitting in front of a computer screen. Bullshit. When I was in college I ran into people I'd known in high school who told me some stories about what was really going on in the social circles I'd missed while I spent my days with a computer, and I was shocked. Most of my "normal" peers who had social lives drank heavily and got into drugs - some died or nearly died. Many of them became teen parents. I never even knew! My obsession with computers had kept me insulated from all of that. Now that I'm a working adult and married, I look back with wonder
Why it failed
I too "wasted" most of my teens writing "pointless" programs - games in Basic that I never finished, assembly language programs optimized for old computers 20 years obsolete, and C++ programs with extensible architectures that no one else will ever extend. My father always warned
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- phaedrus
- Ended
- 2008
- Source
- hackernews