[bowlofpetunias]

We could use a bit more self-reflection and a little less shooting the messenger around here.

If you only want to read happy happy joy, disruption yeah, cheerleader stories about how awesome the tech industry is, I suggest TechCrunch.

Our industry has a pervading attitude of treating anybody who is not "us" as roadkill on the highway to progress. That's going to turn against us a lot harder then these few relatively mild articles.

[hanswesterbeek]

Exactly. The tech-industry is horribly naive. It operates based on the idea that the general public perceives them as those friendly shy nerdy guys from school.

Wake up, guys. People have had tech giants invade their life way too much and they've all seen in The Social Network what kind of person a poster boy like Mark Zuckerberg really is.

[walshemj]

And when they need a scapegoat for the rescission they look around and think ok we bullied them in school with no come back and they are crap a lobbying as a group so lets go to town on techies.

Its the "Anti globalization of fools" want to rile up your nice political machine just go "techie techie techie" any one get the reference to the infamous political observation I am making here.

[yetanotherphd]

>we bullied them in school with no come back and they are crap a lobbying as a group so lets go to town on techies.

This motivation is not sufficiently acknowledged on HN. I think people are afraid to face up to this fact. A lot of what feminists say about rape culture is true, and similar observations apply to nerds. Our culture trivializes physical and sexual (wedgies) assault on nerds. It is only natural that this same culture put on a front of false outrage when some nerds earn a good living.

[ahomescu1]

> Wake up, guys. People have had tech giants invade their life way too much and they've all seen in The Social Network what kind of person a poster boy like Mark Zuckerberg really is.

The Social Network is heavily dramatized, and not really realistic. You shouldn't take a Hollywood movie as reference for real-life. IMHO, the way they depicted MZ in the movie is completely off (spoiled arrogant ass-hole), that's not what he is like in real life.

[calibraxis]

Yeah, when I want to learn why some startup failed or the reality of some tech, I don't listen much to the public tech world. I have to reach out to people and probe to get a better picture. Because then they won't be so busy applying spin for public consumption.

Like recently, there was some article here about a failed startup, and it felt like most of the discussion was pointless. Killing time of people's lives for no end. Because I knew people at the company, and there was such massive dysfunction which severely cut the chances of success regardless of virtually any other factor. I mean really goofy, where elements should be on a sitcom.

Or when you read about some tech which "everyone uses", and there's fundamental issues with it which inevitably bite people hard when they actually try to apply the thing, but everyone's like rah-rah.