You really should let this go. People have already made up their minds about facebook, and who created it, and where the ideas came from.
Even if those people are wrong, it doesn't matter. They've already decided.
When people read or hear things like what you're posting in this thread, it reflects poorly on you. Yeah, it absolutely sucks if things played out the way that you say they did, but being upset about it isn't going to improve anything.
To paraphrase a hacker friend of mine:
"Write shit, build shit, write about building shit...let them know you by the trail of [original content] that you leave behind"
The first time I've ever heard of you was in this thread. Right now, instead of knowing you as
"Aaron, a brilliant hacker working on facecash and doing cool things.",
I know you as
"Aaron, somebody who is really caught up on a dispute he had with a college associate almost 7 years ago."
If the latter is the perception you want people to have of you, continue making noise about your dispute with facebook, otherwise, don't.
Towards history? I'm talking about this onevery specific situation.
You're also taking those lines out of context. I'm saying that he is hurting his reputation because things like comments in a hn thread aren't going to change peoples' minds.
"Towards history? I'm talking one this one very specific situation."
Have you ever read a (U.S.) high school history textbook? They bring a similarly simplifying tone to the thousands of singular specific situations in the past and it does everyone a disservice.
"You're also taking those lines out of context."
I'm guilty of this, yes. I suppose what it comes down to is that I do not share your line of reasoning; Aaron's reputation is not hurt in my eyes.
Even if those people are wrong, it doesn't matter. They've already decided.
When people read or hear things like what you're posting in this thread, it reflects poorly on you. Yeah, it absolutely sucks if things played out the way that you say they did, but being upset about it isn't going to improve anything.
To paraphrase a hacker friend of mine:
"Write shit, build shit, write about building shit...let them know you by the trail of [original content] that you leave behind"
The first time I've ever heard of you was in this thread. Right now, instead of knowing you as
"Aaron, a brilliant hacker working on facecash and doing cool things.",
I know you as
"Aaron, somebody who is really caught up on a dispute he had with a college associate almost 7 years ago."
If the latter is the perception you want people to have of you, continue making noise about your dispute with facebook, otherwise, don't.