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by npsimons 4472 days ago
False: http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html

Techies could easily game the system; but that's a boring game for boring people, and in the grand scheme of things does not matter. There are much more important things to spend time on.

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Like cat picture projects.

Interesting how people think the OP story is real and many people mistakeningly think Steve Yegge quit Google (he just quit the project).

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2011/07/hacker-news-fires-st...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmQW_Nkfk8

That seems like a bit of a stretch.