Ask: Who is Tara Ploughman?

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by Raplh • 17 years ago

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Google shows her quotes ALL over the web. But it does not (within my googling ability anyway) give a hint who or where she actually is. Since PG has her quotes on his website, I hoped it would be alright to ask here.

monkeybusiness3• 17 years ago

You're right. It's strange to find her quotes in so many places without any biographical information. Now I'm curious too. Combined with the fact that my googling pride has been hurt.

icey2• 17 years ago

One of life's mysteries, evidently:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=174149

ryanvm• 17 years ago

Dunno but she has a Twitter page. Not sure why PG would quote such a weirdo.

https://twitter.com/TaraPloughman

jgrahamc2• 17 years ago

Tara Ploughman looks to me like it's an anagram of Not Paul Graham.

_pius• 17 years ago

Great catch!

icey2• 17 years ago

I think this is the answer; it's tough to find any quotes of hers without being accompanied by at least a mention of him.

Someone should put a bio up of her, mentioning that she works for Setec Astronomy.

Raplh2• 17 years ago

Perhaps Tara could write her own wikipedia entry. Or is she too shy for that?

pg4• 17 years ago

I'm sure it's just a coincidence...

(It turns out if you want to write one-sentence essays, you have to attribute them to someone else.)

pg4• 17 years ago

I should add that the first person to catch this was a guy called John Baldwin, who sent me an email about it in May 2008, but who agreed to keep it quiet.

dschobel• 17 years ago

It turns out if you want to write one-sentence essays, you have to attribute them to someone else.

At the risk of exposing myself as a fool, I have to ask-- why?

ph0rque• 17 years ago

> It turns out if you want to write one-sentence essays, you have to attribute them to someone else.

Why?

timr• 17 years ago

Any chance she's related to nickb?

wmf• 17 years ago

Also, you shouldn't name laws after yourself (except as a joke, and even that has become cliched).

monkeybusiness3• 17 years ago

Did you really figure this out in the time since the question was posed? Please say no, so I don't feel so inadequate.

jgrahamc2• 17 years ago

Yes, but I have a strange ability to see certain patterns in data very quickly. I almost instantly saw without thinking that it contained Paul Graham.

This ability manifests itself on a daily basis in one useful fashion. I can look at an entire screen of text (say a log file) and almost immediately take the whole thing in and spot something 'odd' or 'interesting' to examine.

Drives me nuts watching people using computers though. I can find the button or icon they are slowly searching for in a flash.

fshultz• 17 years ago

Check out the first quote:

http://www.paulgraham.com/quo.html

jasonlbaptiste• 17 years ago

NickB's wife.

Ask: Who is Tara Ploughman?

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