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> The BS-Industrial Complex of Brilliant! This is really a thing, and the computer industry is (and has always been?) rife with it.
by stareatgoats 7y ago
> The BS-Industrial Complex of
Brilliant! This is really a thing, and the computer industry is (and has always been?) rife with it.
- harry8 7y agoIBM Global Services. Oracle. Accenture. Any company with 100+ employees who does consulting involving the design, implementation and maintenance of computer systems for any government bureaucracy. Is there anyone around here who thinks this industry sector is something else than industrial grade BS and if every single one of those companies disappeared overnight that we would not be in a better place as a civilization very, very quickly as we were forced to pick up the pieces. Industrial quantities of BS are the norm, right? Most of us do startups to do something more than to schmooze, threaten and ultimately bilk customers paying with other peoples money. We kind of want to do tech.
- adev_ 7y ago> Most of us do startups to do something more than to schmooze, threaten and ultimately bilk customers paying with other peoples money. Do you know Theranos ? That's the definition itself of bullshit and it was a "startup". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos Bullshit comes from 5000+ employees to companies with 5 dudes. Scale does not change anything. Business culture, profit as only value and the culture of fake it until you do it are the source of the problem. And against that their is not magic solution, excepted trust a lot less the ones that speak and trust a lot more the one that do. In the good old Nerd world, we named that Show me the code