Colin Percival (cperciva), upon being dismissed due to never having won a prestigious mathematical award such as a Putnam fellowship, revealing that he had in fact won a Putnam fellowship in 1999.
that's a lovely post, and I missed it when it came out, so thanks for that! but based on the logic in TFA I think an admin would have to make the claim for it to count.
TFA has curator quotes, the users are largely the curators of HN, so it should work! I can't imagine the mods ever saying anything like that. Maybe someone like pg would.
> It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating
Yeah because that should be the end goal of everything right?
And from the response:
> 1. re: the first part, many people want something plug and play. and even if they were plug and play, the problem is that the user experience (on windows at least) with online drives generally sucks, and you don't have disconnected access.
Bingo. I am a really quite experienced Linux user (I've been using it since it came on two floppy disks and didn't really work) and I too want things that are just plug-and-play. Time spent dicking about making things work is time not spend doing something fun, although I get that for some folk their goal in using Linux is to "Be Using Linux". For most of us I suspect that extends out to "Be Using Linux to solve problems we actually have, not just be using Linux for the sake of it".