Business Myths of the Geeks

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11 points·shawndumas··10 comments

I am the original author of this piece. It was republished on variable3 without my permission. The original piece is here:

http://rondam.blogspot.com/2006/10/top-ten-geek-business-myt...

Ok, I killed it and banned the site.

From the last part of Myth #6: ... "programming in C" ... "form groups whose net effectiveness is greater than the sum of their parts."

Wow, I wonder what planet he's from? Someone should buy him a copy of The Mythical Man-Month.

wasn't this already posted on here a few months back? I had a serious sense of deja-vu while reading it.

Though a bit trivial but still awesome reading, thanks for sharing!

For the most part right? I thought the argument myth #6, what you know matters more than who you know, was made pretty well. And we haven't really seen much of such advice. Usually a lot of us here, myself included, dislike the notion of networking bluntly for such purpose alone, but it certainly can be helpful in the long run.

>Google was based on a couple of brilliant ideas (Page rank, text-only ads, massive parallel implementation on cheap hardware) but none of those ideas were original with Larry or Sergey.

Wow. I didn't think someone would claim that Page rank was not an original idea of Larry and Sergey. It generally helps when you are writing a myth busting article to not invent your own.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliometrics

I'd be interested to know, but somehow I seriously doubt there were librarians taking eigenvalues of citation networks.

Yeah, nothing there or in related articles disputes the assertion that they invented PageRank. Sure, they did it in a community that was developing similar ideas, but they built and developed it.

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