There was an article from a few years ago that I'm sure was shared and discussed here where it was put in a good way that basically said the same thing, something about how 20 something start-up founders only knew how to create apps that solve the kinds of problems 20 something start-up founders have.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:02 (three years ago) link
My new idea is an app that will remind users to wash their ass every 24 hours
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:12 (three years ago) link
the internet of shit will never be the same
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link
Sorry DJP, still too much user effort required. Would need to be an app that sends an underemployed gig worker over to aim a hose at the user's ass.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
where would they plug in the hose?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:30 (three years ago) link
"Have you guys tried SpitShine yet? TOTAL GAME CHANGER"
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
here was an article from a few years ago that I'm sure was shared and discussed here where it was put in a good way that basically said the same thing, something about how 20 something start-up founders only knew how to create apps that solve the kinds of problems 20 something start-up founders have.
β dan selzer, Tuesday, March 2, 2021 10:02 AM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
β Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Tuesday, March 2, 2021 10:12 AM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this reminds me of those companies that make purportedly antimicrobial shirts that won't stink if you wear them for two days. Like literally the only people who would care are coders glued to their desks and complete lazy slobs who still somehow care what they smell like.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
you know who makes my antimicrobial shirts, is a collaboration between Samsung and Tide
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:55 (three years ago) link
It is for the best that I never moved to Silicon Valley because I would either be even more insufferable or in jail after freaking the fuck out and punching everyone in sight
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
complete lazy slobs who still somehow care what they smell like
my people
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
β Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Tuesday, March 2, 2021 10:55 AM (fifty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Samsung x Tide
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
TidePods x Soylent
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 17:02 (three years ago) link
My GF forced me to listen to Conan O'Brien's podcast the other day, which was especially heavy on advertising. One 'service' he promoted was having a new car just delivered to your house. "No more boring trips to the dealer!" etc. etc.
I don't know who this is targeted to, but it's clearly not me.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
certainly not the first to note the existence of that class of startups, and i did not come up with the name "MAAS", but it's a good one.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
I thought a lot of the breathable shirts were marketed to people hiking/camping, but I think between my different online ad demographics I'm getting half outdoorsy types and half desk-bound coders and some brands are cross-marketing
― mh, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 02:32 (three years ago) link
it's aspirational -- the desk-bound coders are supposed to want to go hiking/camping and need a bona fide reason to buy these shirts, but instead, they don't and just, y'know, buy them to make up for not showering
― sarahell, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link
well, I wear mostly merino wool shirts AND shower daily. so there!
― mh, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link
#notalldeskboundcoders
― sarahell, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 16:04 (three years ago) link
baffler's not all bad... this is savage and i love ithttps://thebaffler.com/salvos/how-to-become-an-intellectual-in-silicon-valley-timms
― davey, Thursday, 11 March 2021 13:36 (three years ago) link
Join DocuSign executives, along with industry visionaries from Progressive and Arm, to discover how they are transforming their agreement process. Youβll also hear from singer/songwriters and inspiring speakers like Michael Franti and Mick Ebeling of Not Impossible Labs.
― sarahell, Thursday, 11 March 2021 17:32 (three years ago) link
seriously, what happened to Michael Franti
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Thursday, 11 March 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link
I mean, Docusign is a pretty solid program as far as electronic signatures go but .... seriously ... ya, right?
― sarahell, Thursday, 11 March 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link
"industry visionaries" = vomit all over myself
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 11 March 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
davey's link is indeed a pleasant read and highlights how much these dumb assholes are just 1970s/80s neoliberal chamber-of-commerce mouthpieces but with a fresh coat of rock-star paint plus ted talks and twitter.
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 11 March 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link
There was a vinyl banner in SOMA San Francisco with some tech knob wearing a headset mic, and the pithy, airy quote: "We should only think of a technology as radical if it benefits every person on the planet."
And I thought "Bowls? Bowls is all I got. Maybe sandals?"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 11 March 2021 19:08 (three years ago) link
the wheel
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Thursday, 11 March 2021 19:17 (three years ago) link
the toilet
― sarahell, Friday, 12 March 2021 02:46 (three years ago) link
the smallpox vaccine
― davey, Friday, 12 March 2021 03:07 (three years ago) link
For real though instead of NFTs can't we just docusign stuff?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 12 March 2021 03:24 (three years ago) link
― Bruno Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 12 March 2021 03:43 (three years ago) link
xp - seriously, why isn't Grimes headlining the Docusign conference?
― sarahell, Friday, 12 March 2021 05:46 (three years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/mmdI3ioIOf— Nitasha Tiku (@nitashatiku) March 12, 2021
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Friday, 12 March 2021 07:12 (three years ago) link
I'm howling
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Friday, 12 March 2021 15:50 (three years ago) link
is this intentional or unintentional comedy?
― sarahell, Friday, 12 March 2021 16:05 (three years ago) link
The North Sentinelese in the Andaman Islands don't have wheels or smallpox vaccines. They may have toilets and/or bowls, nobody knows.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 12 March 2021 16:14 (three years ago) link
The part about watching Jackson do design work live on twitch is the clincher.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 12 March 2021 16:18 (three years ago) link
why does she speak like TTS software?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 12 March 2021 19:27 (three years ago) link
This is extremely good and fascinating. Still not done with it:
https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/counterculture-to-cyberculture-with-fred-turner/
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 29 March 2021 16:21 (three years ago) link
Anyone gonna watch this? I don't know.. the founder guy looks kinda like the Night Stalker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVAESeO7dgc
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 8 April 2021 18:58 (three years ago) link
Mind Capitalism: Braindreessen Horowitz pic.twitter.com/2OxuHn8r0s— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) May 4, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 01:37 (three years ago) link
What?
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 01:42 (three years ago) link
Okay at first I thought it was inexplicable, then I thought it was some kind of sinister prank the universe was playing on me, but now I'm just really enjoying how dumb this tweet is. Man just had a thought and tweeted it without any of the wiser parts of the brain stepping in, they were just as transfixed as the rest of us.
― lukas, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 01:46 (three years ago) link
this whole basecamp thing has been amazing
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 13:47 (three years ago) link
It's been a case study in how to set your company on fire
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 14:03 (three years ago) link
Iβm learning some leadership lessons certainly, like βdonβt call in to the very sensitive all-hands from bedβ
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 14:43 (three years ago) link
my grad school adviser was a huge basecamp stan so I've been following it a bit, the whole thing to me really smacks of all the white tech guys I've encountered in undergrad/grad education at tech schoolsβthe reactionary way of dealing with these conversations is basically an across-the-board thing, especially the general "I just want to build cool shit, why do we have to talk about things that are so ambiguous and divisive? also I have not experienced white supremacy or done it so it doesn't exist."
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 16:07 (three years ago) link
wait, what is this thing?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
https://www.platformer.news/p/-how-basecamp-blew-up
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 16:46 (three years ago) link
if you're outside tech then they're obviously awful people just based on this story, but there's a huge amount of schadenfreude inside tech too because they've written a bunch of very strident "here's how to run a company" books.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 17:02 (three years ago) link
Picked this book authored by the Basecamp co-founders off of the shelf and opened it to a section I had highlighted when I first read it. π pic.twitter.com/aJHptrC8XK— JT (@thejoshtorres) May 4, 2021
― lukas, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 17:16 (three years ago) link