Like all posts by me, not an official HackNY opinion, just my own:
The piece should speak for itself, so I definitely agree that if that's what you got out of the piece, it looks bad.
The purpose of the piece was to satirize startup culture. HackNY is young, and just developing a culture. Cultural aspects I believe are distinctly HackNY are the living arrangements (having around 30 hackers on one floor of a building is pretty awesome and leads to a lot of brother and sisterhood), along with the talks and activities with amazing people involved in the New York technology sector. That's it. The rest of it you can find at any startup technology internship, and it was the actual incredible, different, interesting, and often difficult, experiences of working at startups, and their stereotypes, that I sought to satirize.
I love HackNY, and I love startup culture although I find it really amusing at times. I'm the kind of person that is literally wearing a shirt with 1's and 0's forming a "binary tree" on it right now. I love this community, and if you have an interest in what HackNY really is, I strongly suggest you take a look at the other pages of the site. I should actually go to bed because I may go to a BBQ with some hackers tomorrow.
The piece should speak for itself, so I definitely agree that if that's what you got out of the piece, it looks bad.
The purpose of the piece was to satirize startup culture. HackNY is young, and just developing a culture. Cultural aspects I believe are distinctly HackNY are the living arrangements (having around 30 hackers on one floor of a building is pretty awesome and leads to a lot of brother and sisterhood), along with the talks and activities with amazing people involved in the New York technology sector. That's it. The rest of it you can find at any startup technology internship, and it was the actual incredible, different, interesting, and often difficult, experiences of working at startups, and their stereotypes, that I sought to satirize.
I love HackNY, and I love startup culture although I find it really amusing at times. I'm the kind of person that is literally wearing a shirt with 1's and 0's forming a "binary tree" on it right now. I love this community, and if you have an interest in what HackNY really is, I strongly suggest you take a look at the other pages of the site. I should actually go to bed because I may go to a BBQ with some hackers tomorrow.