[freejulian]

Counter-counter point: the valley is filled with over inflated egos and developers whose sole business model is stealing people’s private data to sell ads. They tend to think tech wouldn’t exist without them when in reality their only contribution to the world is a few crappy web frameworks.

Edit: looks like I struck a nerve with the valley script kiddies. Keep on downvoting. You’re the reason n-gate.com was created.

[masonic]

  whose sole business model is stealing people’s private data to sell ads

Well, a few actually do make things or provide identifiable services. They just don't get much press.

[convolvatron]

those things can both be true