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A Rigged Game

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I'm not sure what all the swearing adds to this article. Chill out, man.

It was my initial reaction to this post by Jordan Cooper: http://jordancooper.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/full-of-potenti...

"So today I am 28 years old. When I was 24 I used to look at other Associates at venture capital firms who were 27 and 28 years old and think to myself “well, I’m four years ahead of these guys.” When I was 26 and founding my first company I used to look at 30 year old founders and think “well, I’m 4 years ahead of these guys.” Now that I’m 28, I look around at my peers and I’m pretty much right smack in the middle, not really “ahead” of anyone. And what’s worse is, 2 years from now, I’m going to look around and start to say “well, I’m 2 years behind these guys.” It’s already happening. I spend time with a guy like Chris Hughes (26 I think) and leave thinking “well, I’m 2 years WAY behind that guy.”...

Hence the cursing.

"Hence the cursing."

While it may make sense in light of your internal narrative, to an outsider like me it's immensely distracting. So much so that I ended up not caring about whatever point you were trying to make. Instead, I was trying to figure out why people try to write like angry disaffected hipsters.

Well, it's certainly a fool's errand to strive honor or recognition as ends in themselves. However, one may hope that being truly outstandingly useful in society may have the side-effect of social recognition.

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

Broderick enters "ZERO" instead of "0" for the number of players, which made me chuckle.

I suppose a more modern version of WOPR might simulate WoW.

    Number of players?
    ONE MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FORTY TWO
    Initializing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHWjlCaIrQo

There are several things that make me smile, grin, chuckle or groan:

Launch codes being found one character at a time

- "Plasma to the Face" when the game of Tic-Tac-Toe is found to be a draw

- The long list of scenarios

- The completely gormless expression on the General's face during the playout of the scenarios

- Falken typing "Hello Joshua" so quickly and without looking.

That said, and put in its time, it's a surprisingly good film. I remember watching it in the cinema - it is better on the big screen - and it was there I learned about the existence backdoors and a few other things. That started my interest in hacking. Before that I'd just written a compiler and a booking system.

FTA: "Honor. Being honor-driven is about seeking recognition from society and your peers."

No, honor is the quality of doing the right thing when nobody is looking.

Or maybe he only pays the snack box at the office when the boss is behind him?

You're getting honor confused with character, if we believe J.C. Watts - "Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking"

The two are similar; someone with strong character is by definition honorable.

One wonders how he lives up to this himself.

> The two are similar; someone with strong character is by definition honorable.

Not quite - someone with a good strong character is necessarily honorable. Some villians have strong character.

Sounds like something Tyler Durden might have said.

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