Monthly Archives: February 2008

The main difference between the middle class and millionaires

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He was the creator of Yahoo Store, the first web-based application. Paul Graham, who now runs YCombinator – a seed funding for tech startups, released the Arc programming language, which is a new dialect of Lisp.

Since then, there’s been a low end of opinions and furor over Arc’s lofty goals as a programming language. In between the rants, a comment from a Hacker News user stuck in my head, because it answered a lot without much debate:

I read a book called “The 10 differences between the middle class and millionaires,” I think the first difference the author makes is that the middle class talks about people and millionaires talk about ideas. This has stuck with me and I generally try to avoid conversations that are about people …

Now that’s why the game of chess is played with a top-down view.

Wingers no less

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After a poised loss against Australia, this is what the skipper of the Indian cricket team Mahendra Singh Dhoni had to say:

“The crowd was noisy but I don’t think the boys were distracted by it. In smaller towns, you get nastier crowds than you get in international matches.”

Ask me about it Mr. Dhoni. Every ball making its way to Harbhajan Singh and Sreesanth raised an even lounder chant calling out “You are a winger”.

However, that same “noisy” crowd had a bunch of Indian fans, and we were all trying hard to make a statement that a country with a billion people “should” be represented by a team that can play it like its supposed to be played. But its no big deal. Beating the Oz’s is not what we want. They are wingers no less. Standing your ground is what I would like to see. And I hope you know the difference between a want and a need, by now. It’s just a sport anyways. Right.