points by skywalker 16 years ago

PG, please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage.

pg 16 years ago

One day in grad school my advisor unexpectedly said something along the lines of "so, are you nearly done with your dissertation?" I was nowhere near done. But, keeping calm, I replied that yes, while I had a few things to finish up, I thought I should be done in time to graduate that June. Then I went back to my office and started writing as fast as I could. I finished about a day before the deadline. The result was not particularly good, but it got me out of grad school, which was all I wanted at the time.

rms 16 years ago

http://ycombinator.com?

  • skywalker 16 years ago

    YC is pretty recent and he did it in his forties.

    I was thinking about what he did when he was younger, just like the situation of someone that would apply to YC.

  • Jimmy 16 years ago

    I think that would count as a computer system.

    • eru 16 years ago

      It's not the website. It's hacking the startup eco-system.