I've had one good manager of programmers. he basically pushed us all to finish our tasks with timelines that were reasonable and then encouraged us to come up with new ideas for the company and then he's be our political advocate throughout the company for those ideas. It gave his employees a lot of loyalty for him.

great example. thanks.

Good thing you didn't read the article then. I'm saying kids shouldn't be bored out of their minds learning in a standardized, uniform environment that ends up teaching at the lowest common denominator (not in every case but most cases).

I'm saying give kids the full intellectual terrain of life to learn from. Put them to their own devices instead of the devices of the state and you will be surprised at what they learn.

I was fortunate enough to participate in programs at an early age that emphasized this type of learning and it was amazing how quickly one could learn algebra up to calculus if just given a few weeks of passionate learning instead of rote testing. - James Altucher

why do i embody the worst of the excesses of the dot-com bubble? I try to help people as much as I can with my posts and ask nothing for it.

"I needed to make one hundred million dollars pretty fast." http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/01/how-i-screwed-yasser-ar...

Dude, it's written to be humorous and he's sharing the experience of the time.

Aside, I enjoyed this blog post of yours, good reminder. http://denis.papathanasiou.org/?p=438

Hmmm... maybe, but take a look at the comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2134720 I tend to agree with Colin Percival and others.

Just looked at the comments, still like the post. There's sharing of experience, what he did wrong and why, humor, and lessons learned.

We agree to disagree. Despite his occasional sensible points, I can't say I respect him.

That every day in everyone's life is a beautiful story.

Me. And I wrote it.

I really hope they do a "whatever happened to.." 40 years from now so we can see what happened to that kid.

Thanks axiom. I felt this was a particularly important one. I don't like how the media operates in terms of scaring the population. But i guess this article had its run. Thanks again.

Actually, I don't view the article as linkbaiting. The stock market fell 20% over the Greece headlines. Now nobody discusses it. And the media just moves on. No apologies. The same thing will happen with this Japan crisis. I view this as much more serious because of the stark fear people have over the world "nuclear". the media and the pundits know this and take advantage of it.

> Actually, I don't view the article as linkbaiting.

I didn't claim otherwise, and I appreciate your articles. My comment was about the fact that your articles, however insightful, appear often on the front page, sometimes more than once per day. This may rub some people the wrong way.

It upsets me that the media can post all of these lies. Sell their headlines, then just move on without an apology to the millions that are currently scared out of their minds.