Pitching to VCs (comic)
[comic] Appreciation of xkcd comics vs. technical ability
Posted eleven years ago
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Steve Hanov makes a living working on
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Xeno
ten years ago
LOL. Love me some little bobby tables. Also, @xcdxc: lolololololol.
Since my brain decided to get serious: Probably as true as any other generalization. I imagine it's more about the different nerd cultures people are fostered in. Also, an abstraction oriented person probably doesn't just think about schools, they probably think about how common the failure to protect against SQL injection is ("Oh man, this one job I worked at... I can't believe people are still messing that up!").
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xcdxc
eleven years ago
Haha, hey I got that, I read xkcd but I'm smarter than the other people that read it. I'm so smart!
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