SXSW RIP
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SXSW RIP
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#2I can't read this site for more than 10 seconds before my eyes start to bleed.
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#3I can't read this site for more than 10 seconds before my eyes start to bleed.
Hehehe. Someone doesn't like the `Homebrew` setting on Terminal ;).
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#4I haven't been to SXSW in 2 years. Three years ago the technology portion of SXSW definitely felt exactly as you described this year's music. Massively unorganized. Massively chaotic. Couldn't really find anything you were looking for, even if you tried.
While speakers and talks were mostly on time, the rest of it was just pure chaos.
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#5To the person who commented "One organizational failure in a string of massive successes doesn't sound like a data point." in the original article - that is exactly what a data point is. Maybe they meant to say it was not a trend or a pattern?
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#6I can't read this site for more than 10 seconds before my eyes start to bleed.
Oddly enough it didn't bother me when I was reading it, but now it's messed up my colour perception and everything looks pink.
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#7I clicked the article thinking it was about the recent deaths at SXSW.
It's someone complaining about bands. There's first world problems, and then there's "first world" first world problems. You americans are blessed with amazing conferences of all sorts especially tech, SXSW included, but god forbid the music was "not obscure enough".
Why is this even on HN?
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#8Seems like SXSW has been pronounced dead every year for the past 5+ years. Somehow it keeps getting bigger. It's the old Yogi Berra quote: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
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#9I clicked the article thinking it was about the recent deaths at SXSW. It's someone complaining about bands. There's first world problems, and then there's "first world" first world problems. You americans are blessed with amazing conferences of all sorts especially tech, SXSW included, but god forbid the music was "not obscure enough". Why is this even on HN?
jwz is a well known hacker and sf club owner. SXSW is about, among other things, the music, so I think the music is a worthy topic of discussion.
The fact that the US has lots of conferences is a good reason to avoid the bad ones.
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#10I clicked the article thinking it was about the recent deaths at SXSW. It's someone complaining about bands. There's first world problems, and then there's "first world" first world problems. You americans are blessed with amazing conferences of all sorts especially tech, SXSW included, but god forbid the music was "not obscure enough". Why is this even on HN?
Likely the author is Jamie Zawinski, one of the creators of Netscape and proprietor of a SF music venue and all-around hacker legend.