> The famous examples being the slashdot dismissal of the iPod Or more recently, Dropbox, which was Ycombinator financed. Someone linked to an old thread about

> The famous examples being the slashdot dismissal of the iPod Or more recently, Dropbox, which was Ycombinator financed. Someone linked to an old thread about them and it was largely dismissed as "just FTP" and destined to fail. The famous HN quote is "For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software." Yes, trivial for just about anyone, right? I'd also add a 3rd bullet point about these forums being echo-chambers. I know I personally rarely write anything against the libertarian loving majority nor do I ever criticize any FOSS projects because in the past when I have, its been downvote central. This has a chilling effect on speech and forums like these just become extremists cheering each other on over time. >will lean towards the Asperger/autism spectrum. I like to think that techies come in all sorts of neurotypicalities, but the ones obsessed with fighting on the internet over politics/tech news are the ones well into weirdo territory. There are lots of techies with moderate views and with great horse-sense. They're just not spending all day on HN and Reddit "correcting" everyone like a real life Sheldon. The non-weirdos seem to be the ones who get shit done and are out there being successful or spending too much time creating to be bothered by online forum debates. The weirdos just have higher visibility.