What The Bubble Got Right

dtolton writes "Paul Graham has written an article entitled What the Bubble Got Right. In recent years the roaring tech bubble has become a byword, yet Paul does an excellent job of articulating what it got right."

bubble?

[Anonymous Coward]

What the heck class of jargon is "bubble"?

What did the bubble get right???

[Anonymous Coward]

This [stock-market-crash.net]

But seriously - 20 something billionaire yuppies sans business plan?

Re:Wish I had a job before/during the bubble.

[Yallis]

It's *pop*, not **BOOM**.

What did the bubble ever do for us?

[bartash]

Well there's ebay, amazon, google...
continued at:
What have the Romans ever done for us? [c2.com]

I hope my boss is reading this...

[viva_fourier]

...26 year olds with good ideas will increasingly have an edge over 50 year olds with powerful connections.

now go get me some coffee, b@#ch!

Re:Wish I had a job before/during the bubble.

[AKAImBatman]

I'll have you know that it was a big damn bubble!

So let me get this right

[Anonymous Coward]

The internet, a global thing, is supposed to make it all better, except that I have to move to a single point in space - California - to make that global revolution happen?

What the article got wrong . . .

[Anonymous Coward]

What the article got wrong is that the page was written for 320x240 displays.

Re:I think Marx would shit a brick if he could see

[garote]

Awesome ... I never thought of calling myself part of a "domestic nerd base". It's like I'm a bacterium, bringing health to colon of American business. Helping the bottom line, as it were.

Heh

[csoto]

I love the dig at Usenix :)

So Cal housing...

[Anonymous Coward]

Just remember that we learned our lessons during the .bomb era.

We are t3h smart now - we'll never get caught in another bubble again...

Where the smart money now is real estate - you can never lose - it NEVER goes down in So Cal.. so people are signing up for mortgages interest only that STILL require 50%+ of their income to service - but think of the profits - if it's up 150% in the last 3 years I'll make at least 750k on my 500k condo in the next 3.. you just can't lose....

Re:Wish I had a job before/during the bubble.

[contradyction]

Unless the bubble was filled with propane.

Re:Wish I had a job before/during the bubble.

[visgoth]

Well, there was a whole lot of bullshit going on, so maybe it was methane?

The only thing the bubble got right

[commodoresloat]

Chairs. Comfortable chairs.

Re:Quit trying to follow the money, and be happy

[Vlion]

I was told once "C's get degrees."
Although its true, its also true that people who enjoy their work do the best work.

I like computers. For good or ill, I spend probably 60+ hours in front of one machine or another doing activities running from homework to coding.

I enjoy coding, but I don't enjoy it enough to do it for years and years. I'm finding that I far prefer problem solving.

I notice that many computer science majors enter CS for the money. They usually don't do particularly well, or find an innate interest it.
I wish them luck in their MBA.

Others go "hey, this looks fun". These people run the gamut from cruddy to highly skilled.

And then, there are the g33ks. They were geeks before college, during college, and after college.
They know their stuff, but tend to be stuck in techie subjects.

*shrug*

I'd hire a competent person from class 2 first, a competent communicator from class 3 next, and as gofer, someone from class 1.
Class 2 will do well beyond techie areas, class 3 are too immersesed in their subject to move beyond it, and class 1 should be in some kind of interface position.

Personally, I'm somewhere between class 2 and 3. I really enjoy techie stuff, but I also enjoy lots of other subjects. :-)

Re:Full Text

[Anonymous Coward]

What a shame to post this AC. Great thinking.

Either hilariously funny or the ascension to an "I didn't RTFA" pinnacle so amazing, so lofty, that the parent poster didn't even recognize a re-post of the original article.

Re:Full Text

[bluFox]

[quoute]. Now women ask me where they can meet nerds. [/quote]

I cant help thinking that it is in the same league as that of women wanting to marry death row convicts :=

[link] [talkleft.com]

Morbid fascination ??

From the article

[FecesFlingingRhesus]

Now women ask me where they can meet nerds. (The answer that springs to mind is "Usenix," but that would be like drinking from a firehose.)

Or you could just send them over to Slashdot.

Re:I regret to inform Mr. Graham....

[Kombat]

I, and others, were able to see through the hype and stupidity during the bubble, and see what companies had real value, which didn't, which were over-valued, and in some cases, which were under-valued.

Oh if only we'd all listened to you! We were all fools! Thank you for showing us how stupid and naive we are, and conversely, what an insightful visionary you are! We'll never doubt you again!

Get off your horse, snarky prick.