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Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

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Re: Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

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Post by rm_-rf_slash »

archgoon wrote: post #27
zoom6628 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As an older person in tech I see ageism alive and well in tech. The young ones don't understand why we oldies roll our eyes at hearing the 13th iteration of "this is ground breaking new idea" or when we gently interrupt a personnel or strategy discussion with a few use cases from the past to illustrate the pending shit-storm being proposed. Time for the world realise this tech stuff and programming has been around ab…

What were they coding on in 1924?

Tabulating machines were developed by IBM’s predecessor for the 1890 census and used in various forms until evolving into punchcard computers.

Re: Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

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Post by woodpanel »

Animats wrote: post #24

The part of "tech" which is ad-driven has become both boring and seriously annoying. Unfortunately, that's where the money is. There are interesting things going on: * Self-driving cars finally work. San Francisco is full of them. Next step is to get the cost down and replace those rotating scanners with something cheaper. At least the ones that aren't on top. * Robotic manipulation in unstructured situations is just…

> Electric cars. For new car sales … 50% in China.

This seems to be incorrect unless you lure in Plugin-Hybrids into the "electric cars" category. Also, the real driver of this "electric cars" market share growth in China seems to be PHEVs ("electric cars" with a combustion engine in it) while BEVs growth seems to be stalling. [1]

[1] https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/02/47-plugin-vehicle-marke...

Re: Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

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Post by kentbrokeman »

zoom6628 wrote: post #15
dannyobrien wrote: post #4

I think another way to explain "being bored" (and a bunch of other features that this post describes). These people are getting old: Andreessen is 53, Graham is 59, the author is in his fifties; I am too. Nothing too surprising about having older people be the supposed "blowhard" voices of an industry -- except during the golden age that these posts harken back too, all of these pundits were twenty or so years younge…

As an older person in tech I see ageism alive and well in tech. The young ones don't understand why we oldies roll our eyes at hearing the 13th iteration of "this is ground breaking new idea" or when we gently interrupt a personnel or strategy discussion with a few use cases from the past to illustrate the pending shit-storm being proposed. Time for the world realise this tech stuff and programming has been around ab…

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Re: Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

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Post by ilrwbwrkhv »

preommr wrote: post #28
gipp wrote: post #3

> Tech has become all Jobs and no Woz. Distills the post to a sentence, and boy does this nail it.

> Tech has become all Jobs and no Woz. Because it's a lot more true than most tech people want to admit. I am continuously amazed at how many brilliant people there are, that do fantastic things, that do not bring in anywhere near what their value is. Look no further than open source, there's people that write important software begging for scraps while flashy startups get showered with money if they yammer the right…

Yeah, this is something which FUTO really made me aware of. That this Facebook was built on top of an entire ecosystem of open source tools and yet these tools like PHP and Apache will get not even a fraction of the wealth which Zuckerberg now has. And if you think about what he built in comparison to what PHP and Apache are, it's such a thin layer. So somewhere we are getting the distribution of economic reward wrong in our current system and we need to sort of shift it towards some of these great hackers who are actually doing the work.

Re: Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

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reissbaker wrote: post #25
jmathai wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My hypothesis is that it reflects the shift away from consumer and SMB products to Silicon Valley mostly funding enterprise software. 101 North into San Francisco was an exciting drive in the 2000s. I t the 2010s it slowly started to change with billboards one by one changing towards soulless enterprise software. That drive now doesn’t have a single product anyone should be excited about. And enterprise software is t…

Yeah — for God's sake I wish tech was even "all Jobs and no Woz." At least under Jobs, Apple came up with the iPod and the iPhone! The 101 billboards are endemic of no Woz and no Jobs. Just... blandness. Beige. Cubicles updated for an open office plan.

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Re: Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

#37

Post by jimhi »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #35
preommr wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Tech has become all Jobs and no Woz. Because it's a lot more true than most tech people want to admit. I am continuously amazed at how many brilliant people there are, that do fantastic things, that do not bring in anywhere near what their value is. Look no further than open source, there's people that write important software begging for scraps while flashy startups get showered with money if they yammer the right…

Yeah, this is something which FUTO really made me aware of. That this Facebook was built on top of an entire ecosystem of open source tools and yet these tools like PHP and Apache will get not even a fraction of the wealth which Zuckerberg now has. And if you think about what he built in comparison to what PHP and Apache are, it's such a thin layer. So somewhere we are getting the distribution of economic reward wron…

What is FUTO?

Re: Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

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Post by Animats »

woodpanel wrote: post #32
Animats wrote: post #24

The part of "tech" which is ad-driven has become both boring and seriously annoying. Unfortunately, that's where the money is. There are interesting things going on: * Self-driving cars finally work. San Francisco is full of them. Next step is to get the cost down and replace those rotating scanners with something cheaper. At least the ones that aren't on top. * Robotic manipulation in unstructured situations is just…

> Electric cars. For new car sales … 50% in China. This seems to be incorrect unless you lure in Plugin-Hybrids into the "electric cars" category. Also, the real driver of this "electric cars" market share growth in China seems to be PHEVs ("electric cars" with a combustion engine in it) while BEVs growth seems to be stalling. [1] [1] https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/02/47-plugin-vehicle-marke...

OK, "Plug-in vehicles".

I considered getting one of those, but it only has 22 miles of electric range. If they got to 50 miles, I could run on electricity almost all the time.

Re: Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

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Post by bjornsing »

gipp wrote: post #3

> Tech has become all Jobs and no Woz. Distills the post to a sentence, and boy does this nail it.

That’s a really good line and I’d love to read a blog post that distills to it. But this ain’t it.

I bet a young Woz today would be a hell of a lot better off in Graham’s world than in this guy’s “big companies are great” world.

Re: Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

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Post by dualogy »

jimhi wrote: post #37
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, this is something which FUTO really made me aware of. That this Facebook was built on top of an entire ecosystem of open source tools and yet these tools like PHP and Apache will get not even a fraction of the wealth which Zuckerberg now has. And if you think about what he built in comparison to what PHP and Apache are, it's such a thin layer. So somewhere we are getting the distribution of economic reward wron…

What is FUTO?

Just a guess, but from the above context maybe futo.org
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