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John Dvorak: “Yesterday I was fired from PC Magazine”

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Re: John Dvorak: “Yesterday I was fired from PC Magazine”

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Woah, hold up there. You're speaking for some progressives as if you're speaking for all. I generally like to think of myself as progressive. I'm pretty sure that many progressives consider employing someone in your organization who posts hateful content online _is_ amplifying them. Look at the internal messages of Google employees in the John Damore lawsuit documents if you don't believe me. Breitbart fired Milo ove…

Damore wasn't fired for having certain views. He was fired for making his feelings about his views in relationship to his company a national issue. I think many negative things about my employer, all not ideological, but I fully expect to get fired if my rantings about it end up as national news. On the other hand, if I act like an adult and minimize my impact, my employer doesn't give a rat's ass what my views are.

He was fired for making his feelings about his views in relationship to his company a national issue.

Point of order: Regardless of Damore's thoughts, he posted them on an internal message board didn't he? It was the leaker who made it a national issue, and that person remains anonymous.

Re: John Dvorak: “Yesterday I was fired from PC Magazine”

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I read this guy back in the 90s. I think he put down mp3s. I think I emailed him and told him he was on the wrong side of that.

Dvorak's greatest hits: "nobody wants a mouse", "Steve Jobs going the way of pet rocks", "cable modems are a dead end", "the mac is dead", "ipod is a niche product", "wikipedia is a dead end", "podcasting is a dead end", "linux is a dead end", "time to short apple", "the iphone's a flop", "ipad's a flop", "apple watch's a flop", etc.

I’m curious, but what has he been right about? It didn’t say much on his Wikipedia article.

Re: John Dvorak: “Yesterday I was fired from PC Magazine”

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Yes nearly 40 years of predictions will offer plenty of fuel if you're looking to burn someone.

Some examples of what he got right then ?

I don't read PC Mag, and don't care to review so much material. Considering his long career and fame though I consider it uncharitable to assume he's made no right calls in that time.

Re: John Dvorak: “Yesterday I was fired from PC Magazine”

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Yes nearly 40 years of predictions will offer plenty of fuel if you're looking to burn someone.

Some examples of what he got right then ?

He said people would still be using napkins in the year 2000

Re: John Dvorak: “Yesterday I was fired from PC Magazine”

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They're listed as Columnists (as opposed to Contributing Editor, which means you're an employee), have non-pcmag.com (unlike all of their other authors) email addresses in their Author Bios on PC Mag's site and with one exception (a twice-yearly contributor anyway) they all have published PC Mag articles within the last week. Moreover, they all have full-time jobs which are not at Ziff Davis. Knowledge is power.

> (as opposed to Contributing Editor, which means you're an employee) It might mean that at PC Mag, but it definitely does not mean that on other magazines. In fact, at most publications it refers to someone who is not an employee. For more, see [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributing_editor

Most _US_ publications. In the UK we don’t do that, we just call them “contributors”.

Re: John Dvorak: “Yesterday I was fired from PC Magazine”

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I read this guy back in the 90s. I think he put down mp3s. I think I emailed him and told him he was on the wrong side of that.

Dvorak's greatest hits: "nobody wants a mouse", "Steve Jobs going the way of pet rocks", "cable modems are a dead end", "the mac is dead", "ipod is a niche product", "wikipedia is a dead end", "podcasting is a dead end", "linux is a dead end", "time to short apple", "the iphone's a flop", "ipad's a flop", "apple watch's a flop", etc.

From a Bayesian perspective, he seems like an excellent source of predictive information, when appropriately weighted.

Re: John Dvorak: “Yesterday I was fired from PC Magazine”

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If you need your JCD fix, he does a bi-weekly podcast with Adam Curry called No Agenda. [0] [0]: http://noagendashow.com

They don't have advertisers (listener funded) so they're able to sift through the news in a reasonably balanced way. Each show also has crowd-sourced, listener produced podcast album art that's generated about an hour after the show airs live. Try listening to the noagendashow at 2X speed to start.

>so they're able to sift through the news in a reasonably balanced way.

That classic Hilary is really a lizard person balanced take on the news.

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