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Groupthink

• mikeknoop 16y ago
  In case you're curious, this term is used in the YC "How To Apply" post found at: http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html
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• cilantro 16y ago
  "Groupthink (wikipedia.org)" Love the juxtaposition!
• noname123 16y ago
  Groupthink on HN: - Bashing liberal arts and academia; makes the engineering crowd feel a lot better about themselves. - Bashing business-dev. See above. - Idea that Web 2.0 is somehow revolutionary and makes the world a better place. Justifies inane CRUD applications and re-inventing the wheel. - Lots of water-down self-help articles written with a tech perspective. Advice for startup's. But no concrete statistics, spec's or implementation to follow through on idea's. To preach to the choir and boost blog traffic. - Idea that entrepreneurship is a lifestyle; Fail early and often, iterate and release often; work hard to get your FU money. Makes geeks feel good about themselves, to focus solely and highlight their relative superiority in tech skills; builds an illusion that somehow working on programming or making a huge financial exit will resolve all other issues in life. - NoSQL/Cassandra/CouchDB, new technologies that are fun to use in a hobby project and have nowhere the scalability, durability, and customization of production-grade frameworks used in running real life software; Promoted by geeks to stick to the man who prefers Java/C++/.net.
  • gruseom 16y ago
    - Bias against misspelling's. Idea that dumb-down writing tend's to indicate murky thinking. To draw bogus conclusion's.