Deicide's Fuck Your God was used in American prisons in Iraq. Metallica's Enter Sandman was and still is used in Gitmo as far as I know. AC/DC and Barney have been used as well. Psyops doesn't leave scars so it's not torture, naturally.
I can corroborate with the author's story. I'm developing the BB app for a cross-platform group messaging app and I've also hit a wall of silence from RIM. I can confirm that they are deliberately not giving us access to certain parts of RIM's infrastructure that would make things a lot easier for us. Oh well, guess we'll have to engineer our way around those roadblocks and then open source it!
I'd love to hear your history, reasons and current attitude to developing BB apps.
The stories* tell me that the RIM/BB developer experience is so much worse than iOS and Android that it's not worth bothering with (as developers and hence as a viable platform).
Well, if you make 20 mil when you are 20 you are rather likely to become a narcissistic a-hole. And then fill the Internet with shirtless pictures of yourself. But we should give this guy some time, he is still young and has a lot to learn.
Exactly. I hear a lot of hate from uni friends about alums in 20s who have hit it big and now do what most people with money in their 20s would do. A lot of these people have to seriously repress their social life in their teens and college years until they hit it big and can go back to make up for it. It's quite understandable IMO.
Once you've made FU money, you earn karma to drown yourself in some stupidity. Perfectly fine for me! I am sure he has moments where he looks in the mirror and laughs at himself and the shit he's doing. That in itself can be fun and fulfilling.
Why would it? He doesn't seem to have a very great command of language but he's got all that money so whatever.
Lot's of people made a lot of money with the internet boom, pg and Mark Cuban among them. However, they are still people that did not enter the 'you cannot comment on me unless your wealth is greater than or equal to mine' club.
Honest question - why should we expect there be a correlation between "command of language" and entrepreneurial success? Also, curious as to why we should think someone only deserves to have money only if they had good command over language.
Hmmm, interesting questions. I don't think I implied people only deserve money if they have a good command of language. I think I made that comment more to point to how his lack of education was apparent from his manner of speech.
I would expect a good correlation between charisma and entrepreneurial success, of which being well-spoken can be a large component. People here often look to succeed by use of technical acumen, which is another trait that can serve you well, but don't overlook having someone around that is able to connect with people on a more basic level.
"I think I made that comment more to point to how his lack of education was apparent from his manner of speech."
That's an interesting observation. I actually watched the video again to try to pick out the parts which could cause you to think so. But, nothing seemed to stand out. His manner of speaking was not distinguished in a sense, but at the same time, it seemed more like means to an end, and wasn't something that caused me to think any less of him.
I bring up this issue because I feel I am not "well-spoken" and am trying to see how I can address this deficiency.
I'd have to review to go in more depth but those things are a little jarring to me. If you'd like to work on improving how you sound I'd recommend reading (a lot but preferable some stuff that has general interest, not necessarily fiction) and practice in a relaxed atmosphere. In college there was brewery tour nearby. That was the perfect place to have a dozen different conversations without anyone being wasted enough to remove any lucidity from the participants.
Because unless you're equally successful "this guy was a tool" comes across as poorly concealed envy. If you're going to trash someone who's way more successful than you are, use specifics and acknowledge his positive characteristics as well.
Not everyone defines success in terms of dollars. Many people make less money than they could because they're unwilling to comprise their morals or do things they feel take advantage of other people. There are plenty of rich douchebags, and you don't need money to point out that they're douchebags.
Obviously I have no data other than anecdotal evidence to support this claim, however, I would conjecture that the personality traits that lend themselves to acquiring wealth quickly at a young age, may also engender development of bullish personal decorum.
So do we all need to include our net worth on our profile page now?
Frankly, I'd prefer if our comments stood on their own merits (or lack thereof), but perhaps you've hit upon the next social media craze. Instead of simply using karma scores, we could multiply one's karma by the amount of currency tracked in their covestor account.
Do you think that when you attack someone that has been less fortunate than you that you don't have to use specifics or identify positive characteristics?
word on the street is he took on his last round of financing at an extremely high valuation in order to drive the asking price of Mint up. Sounds like the investors in the last round got screwed!
