male_salmon's comments

On: "I Have a Startup" - Midwest vs Bay Area

[male_salmon]

Isn't this exactly what PG said in his Cities and Ambition - http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html - essay?

How much does it matter what message a city sends? Empirically, the answer seems to be: a lot. You might think that if you had enough strength of mind to do great things, you'd be able to transcend your environment. Where you live should make at most a couple percent difference. But if you look at the historical evidence, it seems to matter more than that. Most people who did great things were clumped together in a few places where that sort of thing was done at the time.

[thingsilearned → male_salmon]

Yup, its very much the same point but narrower in focus and less eloquently stated. I should have linked to his article in mine.

On: How and Why AJAX, Not Java, Became the Favored Tec...

[male_salmon]

I thought this article was about how Flex was the favored technology for RIAs (as opposed to AJAX).