I fucking love this post!
Fuck You Startup World
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#52> Fuck reading a book a week. No one can read that fast. Let me repeat that -NO ONE CAN FUCKING READ THAT FAST. How about actually reading that god damn book?! What the hell are you even talking about? Can't read one book a week?
This one was pretty strange. I often read several books a day...
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Toxic SV culture is ripe for parody, but words won't stop it. What will stop it is when the money stops flowing so easily and the wider economy improves so that it's no longer the place to be for the greedy. Not sure I see both those things happening any time soon, in the meantime Tech is sadly the new Finance.
Or, we (engineers) could all take a cue from workers of the past and organize to demand an end to abusive labor practices. Seriously guys, just because we're making 10x the salary of a miner doesn't mean we're not also generating 100x the money for our employers without being allowed to take part in decisions that effect our lives.
The IWW has a section for software engineers. Somehow, I don't think it's being filled.
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#54Aside from what others have said, I got a great laugh out of reading it.
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#55I keep thinking it's time for the next dot-com collapse. The level of excess is too high. But we haven't had the first really big failure yet. Yahoo and Twitter are almost ready to collapse. Uber is still iffy, because they subsidize rides with investment capital to buy market share and lose money.
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#56Look, I get the issues with startup culture but this guy doesn't offer any reasonable suggestions on how to fix them and just uses his Medium soapbox to throw a tantrum. If you want things to change, writing an article with 35 "fucks" is not the way to do it.
I agree with you, but it is clear here that he is using Medium as his outlet to vent, and I think that is fine. Whether or not his tantrum is valid or even rational is not so much the point, in my opinion. He recognizes that he himself is a participant in the cult-like behavior that plagues the tech scene, and recognizing there is problem in the first place is a good start.
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#57Am I... on your lawn? I'm on your lawn, aren't I? I should get off, shouldn't I...
This article is trying to point out the absurdity of the current culture of the area, which I don't think makes him a curmudgeon. Also, reading HN (which I doubt is a terribly accurate characterization) makes Silicon Valley seem like an absurdly pretentious and expensive bubble.
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#58Look, I get the issues with startup culture but this guy doesn't offer any reasonable suggestions on how to fix them and just uses his Medium soapbox to throw a tantrum. If you want things to change, writing an article with 35 "fucks" is not the way to do it.
There's a system that more or less works, and generates a much greater innovation to hype ratio. And, that's the system of normal small businesses. The alternative shouldn't need to be mentioned, because everywhere other than SV, it's omnipresent.
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#59The only takeaway for me is the wondering whether or not the author really thinks you can't read a book a week. I mean, yeah, you have to make time to read the books, but an average length book takes something like 6-8 hours to read, so if you allocate an hour a day (which I maintain is worth doing), you're generally going to be able to comfortably knock out a book a week. Sure, you're not churning through War & Peac…
His point is that reading is about the journey not the destination. Better to read less books but savour and enjoy them (or if non-fiction is your thing take the time to learn the materials properly) then finish them to say you finished them.
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#60I don't think you need to censor titles on Hacker News.
I wasn't entirely sure. But, hey, this version got to the front page while at least two others didn't -- so I guess it worked.