gonk

I just don't see how its applicable to connect your experience with the fact that you started reddit .. I mean, fair enough, you have a lot of Internet celebrity credits, but you're spending them by telling the world details about your life that have no real bearing on your profession.

The moral of the story? I guess it is that you should always try to persist in life no matter what gets thrown at you. I just found myself realizing, in the middle of your post, that I was spending my life reading about someone I don't even vaguely know, talking about how sad they were that their dog died. Is this really what its all about?

Meh.

Am I the only one who wishes all this personal stuff had nothing to do with the business?

Is it some new rule these days that startup founders have to prove they are 'real people' by sharing all the details of their lives? I mean, sure .. its sad to have to go through all that, but that stuff is personal.

This story really has very little to do with reddit, other than to serve as a social means of establishing 'personality' behind the scenes of the service.

Downvote me into oblivion, but I really have to say - fair enough, dude. You had a rough time. But that is life, you know? Need the whole world know you are suffering the normal, perfectly mundane, plain ol' human condition?

I suppose in these techno-fuelled racey days of million-dollar teenagers it helps to have a little soap opera, to keep the balance, eh ..

I think the point is, if one were interested enough to do so, writing Assembly language code that 'does better' than Mathematica on tricky maths problems would - eventually - get as easy for one to do, as it is for you to use Mathematica.