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I wonder if this was s stunt to get attention on his company? This seems so cartoonish, I mean you could picture wealthy people thinking this way but to me it a

I wonder if this was s stunt to get attention on his company? This seems so cartoonish, I mean you could picture wealthy people thinking this way but to me it almost seems too insensitive. Maybe a publicity stunt that backfired a little. On the other hand maybe he is so sheltered as to think this is an actual problem he's helping solve...

drunken-serval 11y ago
No, people really do think this way. Most of them have just learned not to voice their opinions in places where they will be criticized for it.
- m1sta_ 11y ago
  It can be difficult to change an opinion that someone refuses to voice.
  - civilian 11y ago
    Yup. We need to turn down our witchhunt culture and engage eachother with more open dialog and mutual respect. If someone holds a differing view, they often have a good reason for it. At the very least, people can get down to where their assumptions differ. And once we've identified assumptions, we can try to test them with data.
sp332 11y ago
I considered whether it might be satire, but then he apologized for using the term "riff-raff" which implies that the rest of the article is fine by him. Also he's been defending it on Twitter.
- FussyZeus 11y ago
  It didn't seem clever enough to be satire, I was thinking more like he was trying to just get a lot of attention, and as we all know outrage drives viral-ity much better than admiration.
shopkins 11y ago
He seems to be okay with regularly telling everyone about what he thinks is wrong with the world [0]. It says a lot about you when you need to complain to companies about bugs or whatever and also tell your followers how upset you are [1]. [0] https://twitter.com/johnny5sf https://twitter.com/johnny5sf [1] https://twitter.com/johnny5sf/status/593965045085700097 https://twitter.com/johnny5sf/status/593965045085700097
- sleepychu 11y ago
  One of the things I like about Twitter is that it's much harder for companies to just ignore your complaints about things which, I hope you would agree, are just ridiculous. Google pushes its authenticator app but when I get a new phone, even if I still have the old phone and it's working I can't move it across without some dodgy hack.
  - shopkins 11y ago
    Yes it's great for complaining to companies (except maybe Google), but the guy put a '.' before each tweet so that all his followers would see his complaints too. That's the type of person that would see a homeless person and say I need to tell everyone about the 'riff-raff' I just saw in an American urban center. (And to your point, I personally haven't had that issue with transferring my accounts on Authenticator, but maybe it's different on iOS.)
ryandrake 11y ago
Having read the letter, I can't help but think that this must be some kind of elaborate trolling: That after 2 weeks or so, he'll follow-up with "Thanks for all the attention everyone! My start-up's revenue took a 45% bump from all this publicity!!" This reads like a cartoon caricature of the stereotypical clueless tech bro. No real person could actually think this way.
- JoeAltmaier 11y ago
  That's an optimistic view. Real people think all sorts of things. Entitled people especially.
- kelukelugames 11y ago
  Read HN threads about gender and race issues. People fit all of the stereotypes.

drunken-serval 11y ago

No, people really do think this way. Most of them have just learned not to voice their opinions in places where they will be criticized for it.

m1sta_ 11y ago
It can be difficult to change an opinion that someone refuses to voice.
- civilian 11y ago
  Yup. We need to turn down our witchhunt culture and engage eachother with more open dialog and mutual respect. If someone holds a differing view, they often have a good reason for it. At the very least, people can get down to where their assumptions differ. And once we've identified assumptions, we can try to test them with data.

sp332 11y ago

I considered whether it might be satire, but then he apologized for using the term "riff-raff" which implies that the rest of the article is fine by him. Also he's been defending it on Twitter.

FussyZeus 11y ago
It didn't seem clever enough to be satire, I was thinking more like he was trying to just get a lot of attention, and as we all know outrage drives viral-ity much better than admiration.

shopkins 11y ago

He seems to be okay with regularly telling everyone about what he thinks is wrong with the world [0]. It says a lot about you when you need to complain to companies about bugs or whatever and also tell your followers how upset you are [1]. [0] https://twitter.com/johnny5sf https://twitter.com/johnny5sf [1] https://twitter.com/johnny5sf/status/593965045085700097 https://twitter.com/johnny5sf/status/593965045085700097

sleepychu 11y ago
One of the things I like about Twitter is that it's much harder for companies to just ignore your complaints about things which, I hope you would agree, are just ridiculous. Google pushes its authenticator app but when I get a new phone, even if I still have the old phone and it's working I can't move it across without some dodgy hack.
- shopkins 11y ago
  Yes it's great for complaining to companies (except maybe Google), but the guy put a '.' before each tweet so that all his followers would see his complaints too. That's the type of person that would see a homeless person and say I need to tell everyone about the 'riff-raff' I just saw in an American urban center. (And to your point, I personally haven't had that issue with transferring my accounts on Authenticator, but maybe it's different on iOS.)

ryandrake 11y ago

Having read the letter, I can't help but think that this must be some kind of elaborate trolling: That after 2 weeks or so, he'll follow-up with "Thanks for all the attention everyone! My start-up's revenue took a 45% bump from all this publicity!!" This reads like a cartoon caricature of the stereotypical clueless tech bro. No real person could actually think this way.

JoeAltmaier 11y ago
That's an optimistic view. Real people think all sorts of things. Entitled people especially.
kelukelugames 11y ago
Read HN threads about gender and race issues. People fit all of the stereotypes.