Does this seem... incredibly lame?
My Year in San Francisco’s $2M Secret Society Startup
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#22Ahoy! I just stumbled on this. I was the Director of Technology for this set of local bizareness for its last two years. I won't say "I'm happy to answer any questions" because I may avoid some. If you want to ask, maybe hit me up, Especially the tech, especially if you got to play and have a good idea of what we were doing. Also! I think I'm signed up to give a talk in May at ADG. If you're interested in this sort o…
Over/Under 1 orgy while in Latitude?
Well, the public part of TLS spanned two Burning Men, and is in the Bay Area. It's not my scene, but I'm sure it happened.
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Alt note: I spent two years at that gig, and much of it was "public" facing, i.e. to participants. Talking about it now it's very difficult not to default into the cloak and dagger mode. It's now shockingly easy for me to write coyly.
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#23Great read! Now I so badly want to be apart of a secret society
Become an Erlang programmer!
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#24It's sounds like a well-produced LARP. Like Escape Room.[1] It wasn't really a society. It was a startup pretending to be one.
With today's high real estate costs, it's hard to do anything like this in the physical world. People no longer rent storefronts as clubhouses, or set up social organizations which own their own buildings. Hacker Dojo morphed from a hacker space to a commercial co-working startup for that reason.
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#25It's sounds like a well-produced LARP. Like Escape Room.[1] It wasn't really a society. It was a startup pretending to be one. With today's high real estate costs, it's hard to do anything like this in the physical world. People no longer rent storefronts as clubhouses, or set up social organizations which own their own buildings. Hacker Dojo morphed from a hacker space to a commercial co-working startup for that rea…
I'd disagree with your assumption that it wasn't a real society. Maybe it wasn't really secret, maybe it wasn't...something or other; but that was, and for many many people, is, real. It might be more apt to say that it was a society pretending to be a startup.
Pretend is almost always the wrong word when anybody in the room takes it seriously.
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#26I'm curious. "I'm asked to surrender my possessions. So in go my iPhone and wallet"... and yet somehow there's photos of everything beyond that point.
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#27Great read! Now I so badly want to be apart of a secret society
You mean you're not part of one? But all the rest of us are...
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#28I submitted this yesterday. I thought HN didn't allow recently submitted articles? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11240405
My understanding is that HN's moderation involves some discretion.
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#29Does this seem... incredibly lame?
Funny how polarizing it is. The elitism, faux secrecy and utter pointlessness of this just ticks me off (along with the other criticism mentioned in the article), but some people, including the author, seem to gobble this up like candy.
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#30Seems like the video indicates Nonchalance used a projector, to animate the fable, on the book pages...or was it something more exotic (?) Kind of hard to see. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAazLmTcmb0
Looks like a projector to me too, based on the lighting at the end. Would have been really cool if it was a Harry Potter e-ink invention. Too bad...