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So whats his beef with FB? And HN? outoftheloop

by vinhboy 10y ago

sneak 10y ago
He's a cranky old unix dude who wrote one of the first major cross-platform web browsers (his old blog has plenty of great rants about platform-specific unix fuckery in the 90s), then cashed out and now sells beer to clubgoers in SF (after a not-so-brief tango with the SF and CA local governments during the renovation and relicensing of his club). If that plot arc doesn't yield a severely cranky and antisocial person, nothing will. FB (the organization) and HN sort of embody a lot of the attributes that tend to make the SFBA insufferable at times, to be sure. Mix in one person constructed by the universe explicitly to embody maximum crankiness, and you've got yourself a scrotal egg cup on your screen.
- patmcguire 10y ago
  Netscape. I hope that's not a name that's fallen out of public memory. Not that he was the only person by a long shot, but he was a minor celebrity at the time. He also has the same general profile as Richard Stallman: strident about seemingly trivial things that in retrospect were clearly big deals. I think he's pissed at HN because of the conversation surrounding https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-sell-a-con/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-s... (copy paste advised). His tales have been repurposed to get you to stop questioning management.
  - vinhboy 10y ago
    Good link. I agree with him. But I can't believe he uses 6pm as an appropriate time to leave the office. I am thinking more like 3pm...
- yawaramin 10y ago
  'Cranky old Unix dude'? Jesus. Please read his interview in Peter Siebel's Coders at Work, it's fascinating.
  - sneak 10y ago
    I have, and own a dead trees copy. I've also read every page on his website.
  - elros 10y ago
    I don't know how you read it, but if anyone would ever call me a "Cranky old Unix dude", I'd take it as a major compliment :-)

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So whats his beef with FB? And HN? outoftheloop

by vinhboy 10y ago

So whats his beef with FB? And HN? outoftheloop

sneak 10y ago
He's a cranky old unix dude who wrote one of the first major cross-platform web browsers (his old blog has plenty of great rants about platform-specific unix fuckery in the 90s), then cashed out and now sells beer to clubgoers in SF (after a not-so-brief tango with the SF and CA local governments during the renovation and relicensing of his club). If that plot arc doesn't yield a severely cranky and antisocial person, nothing will. FB (the organization) and HN sort of embody a lot of the attributes that tend to make the SFBA insufferable at times, to be sure. Mix in one person constructed by the universe explicitly to embody maximum crankiness, and you've got yourself a scrotal egg cup on your screen.
- patmcguire 10y ago
  Netscape. I hope that's not a name that's fallen out of public memory. Not that he was the only person by a long shot, but he was a minor celebrity at the time. He also has the same general profile as Richard Stallman: strident about seemingly trivial things that in retrospect were clearly big deals. I think he's pissed at HN because of the conversation surrounding https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-sell-a-con/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-s... (copy paste advised). His tales have been repurposed to get you to stop questioning management.
  - vinhboy 10y ago
    Good link. I agree with him. But I can't believe he uses 6pm as an appropriate time to leave the office. I am thinking more like 3pm...
- yawaramin 10y ago
  'Cranky old Unix dude'? Jesus. Please read his interview in Peter Siebel's Coders at Work, it's fascinating.
  - sneak 10y ago
    I have, and own a dead trees copy. I've also read every page on his website.
  - elros 10y ago
    I don't know how you read it, but if anyone would ever call me a "Cranky old Unix dude", I'd take it as a major compliment :-)