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13 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
Yeah, I've lost weight since I was fifteen. Finally, random people on the Internet say something nice about me! |
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35 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
I don't think it was one of the most important events of my life. It is still pretty odd, though. I kind of wish I could meet these people in person. Hey -- if anyone of you live in San Francisco, you can come and make fun of me to my face. Just ask judgmentalist -- I don't bite. Email me@aaronsw.com to schedule a time. |
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27 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
Yeah, I certainly learned my lesson. |
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6 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
I'm sorry I'm such a bad person. If anyone wants to give me advice on how to do better, I'd love to hear it. |
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24 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
I'm sorry if I sounded haughty; I'm actually just an untalented hack who got lucky. |
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26 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
I'm very small. |
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18 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
Sorry, you can have the credit. |
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27 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
It wasn't a cold; it was a serious illness. I spent the week lying in bed clutching my stomach, with occasional breaks to gush blood. |
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19 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
Did I say the predominance of women was prima facie evidence of discrimination? My recollection is that I provided actual evidence of discrimination. |
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5 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
I'm sorry you think that; I'm actually a pretty bad person with no real talent. I guess I'm so incompetent that I even failed to communicate that. |
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26 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
Don't blame me; I didn't vote it up. |
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9 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
I'm sorry you thought that immodest. In truth, I'm not the world's greatest programmer and most of my success has been due to luck and social incompetence. |
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25 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
There are and I feel bad about that, but all I really know how to do about it is learn from my mistakes and try again. |
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11 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
I'd love to -- do you have any specific suggestions on how? And my apologies about the lack of haircut. |
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39 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
Yes, there is a piece of the story you're not getting, but out of loyalty to Steve and Alexis (who I still think are great guys, although I gather they probably hate me) I'm not going to be the first to tell it. |
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23 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
Yeah, we were all living in the same city working on startups, spending dinners and social events together, helping each other out and giving each other advice. |
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36 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
Yes, Steve and Alexis originally proposed with another idea (a cell phone-based fast food ordering system). That idea wasn't accepted (I think it was generally agreed that it was impractical to do in the YC model), so they ended up doing Reddit, an idea batted around between me and Paul and Steve and Alexis and probably some others. Steve and Alexis eventually started working on it while I declined to work on it in favor of Infogami, which I thought was more interesting. Then my co-founder left, I couldn't find an apartment, and my funding deals fell apart months into the negotiations. |
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83 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
I think this is a bit unfair, but in spez's defense he may not know the whole story. I was deathly ill when I came back from Europe; I spent a week basically lying in bed clutching my stomach. I wrote a morose blog post in an attempt to cheer myself up about a guy who died. (Writing cheers me up and the only thing I could write in that frame of mind was going to be morose.) People got freaked out and misinterpreted it as a suicide note (perhaps understandably; I wasn't exactly in my right mind when I wrote it). Alexis even had the cops break into my apartment. I took it down to avoid further trouble for a while; it's back up now with some minor edits ("Alex" used to be "Aaron"). |
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44 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
In my defense, I wasn't trying to be a jerk. That's not much of a defense, though. |
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35 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
I think this is a bit incorrect. As noted above, I was looking for either funding, a partner, or an apartment. The merger ended up getting me all three (with some give on the apartment part). We legally merged the two companies (originally named oubliable and redbrick) into a new one, not a bug. And the original idea was that we would work on Reddit and Infogami together. For a variety of reasons, this didn't work out as we planned, although the existing Reddit is indeed built on top of some Infogami code. |
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28 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
Unless the guy you're worried about is PG, I don't think that's very likely. I think Steve and Alexis would agree that I wasn't "foisted" on them. |
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48 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
One of the points of the merger was that we would all call ourselves co-founders, so that's what I've been doing. I'd be happy to stop if that's what Steve and Alexis wanted, though. |
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44 points 1 year ago
by AaronSw
Yes, that's what happened. I'm sorry if what I said was confusing. |
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That's not inconsistent with the other statements.