snowflake crybaby didn't get fired after 30 years like he wanted.
John Dvorak: “Yesterday I was fired from PC Magazine”
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#112I remember writing that guy off as hopelessly wrong back in the mid 1990s. Not a bad career for a talentless troll.
John is a special snowflake! He needs special attention after 30 years you see.
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#113There must be something to learn from Dvorak because he seems to have done something rare among the HN crowd, and that is being both very wrong and very appealing at the same time.
Well, his columns were often bad and often wrong, but people will forgive a lot as long as your columns aren't boring.
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#114This is really too bad. After 36 years, they don't have the courage and decency for a call. On a side note, I had always assumed 'Dvorak' was a penname --however, I've learned he's actually related to the actual Dvorak Keyboard creator.
You may be confusing him with Robert X. Cringely, which is a pen name.
Thanks for this -- I can't speak for the person you're responding to, but I had the same confusion and it was definitely because I was thinking of Cringely.
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#115About 12 years ago I was working for a PC Magazine competitor when they cut the Managing Editor loose, a man who'd worked there 20+ years and was in his late 50s. I ran into him in the bathroom, tears in his eyes, asking me what he was going to do now? That this is how they reward decades of loyalty? Ironically that magazine, dedicated to predicting future technology trends, would go down the toilet some years later…
How does it have anything to loyalty? A job doesn't last a lifetime. There aren't that many company that even live a full decade.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
What's wrong with these? It looks like the average click bait title to me.
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#117https://mobile.twitter.com/W6VA/status/1043181935667761153
Interesting exchange in the comments…
Re: John Dvorak: “Yesterday I was fired from PC Magazine”
#118About 12 years ago I was working for a PC Magazine competitor when they cut the Managing Editor loose, a man who'd worked there 20+ years and was in his late 50s. I ran into him in the bathroom, tears in his eyes, asking me what he was going to do now? That this is how they reward decades of loyalty? Ironically that magazine, dedicated to predicting future technology trends, would go down the toilet some years later…
How does it have anything to loyalty? A job doesn't last a lifetime. There aren't that many company that even live a full decade.
When an employer will happily use up your most productive years and let you go as soon as it isn't constantly profitable... A job might as well be for a lifetime.
It's not an uncommon story, true. But it's a pretty shitty one.
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#119My guess is they couldn't afford him anymore. As a 36-year-old star veteran, his compensation was probably a sizable chunk of production costs. Meanwhile, the magazine business is still hurting.
He’s not 36 years old, he’s 66 years old. He’s a 36-year veteran.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Perhaps The Economist will hire him.