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While some of the things the author says on quora may make sense, he is a charlatan. His name is Brian Rommele and he used to have 300K+ Twitter followers. When

by gnrlst 7y ago

While some of the things the author says on quora may make sense, he is a charlatan. His name is Brian Rommele and he used to have 300K+ Twitter followers. When Twitter cracked down on fake followers last year (or the year before) his count dropped to 70k. His tweets like crazy and constantly retweets his own tweets and retweets those again. He gets 6-10 likes per tweet which is very strange considering the follower count he has. He's constantly saying he invented incredible technology but never shows it (or shows something that could be easily and likely simulated). I wouldn't trust him to pick up a subway sandwich for me. Sorry for the rant, but I think the internet is giving these types of people louder voices than they deserve.

sjroot 7y ago
For more information about the author, their personal site: http://voicefirst.expert/ http://voicefirst.expert/
- rmilejczz 7y ago
  LetsEncrypt is so simple in 2019 it really makes me cringe to see sites served over HTTP, especially when the site belongs to some self proclaimed “visionary”
vaxman 7y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to condemn him simply for trying to get his message out with Twitter trickery. Twitter itself is a giant freak show with "soft bans" etc. and would have already gone the way of My_ if it hadn't been for a certain politician using it to bypass the talking heads on TV.
rmilejczz 7y ago
This is one of my major gripes with quora, I feel like it attracts and rewards these types of folks who are then immediately trusted thanks to their very high “internet point” scores
- Cyberdog 7y ago
  Yeah, sites which permit upvoting of posts and comments and display a total of upvotes received on user profiles are really cancerous.
  - rmilejczz 7y ago
    I wouldn’t go that far, but when vote count is the primary means end users rely on to determine whether or not someone is “correct” then yeah, it can be problematic. I feel the same way about SO, but I wouldn’t extend this criticism to reddit or hacker news.
    - dmix 7y ago
      It's still a compromise when you're depending on people to create user-generated content for you. One could argue this article is a net-gain for the community as a whole, even if he is ultimately hawking buzzwords and his consultancy. We're still getting this long-form exposition with a bit of research into Apple patents and other direct sourcing from both Apple and others collected in one place for free. Content marketing can provide a lot more value to the world than most forms of marketing. Additionally, 99% of people are only going to read the first half where he explains it's an ultra-wideband chip with a few examples then move on. They aren't going to dig into his futuristic predictions and other consultancy nonsense, or even look at his name. Although having to skim through crap like this in order to get to the meat is a bit annoying: > Many folks in the payment industry including disruptive startups thought me insane and went about becoming redundant when Apple Pay was released. Of course I had far more basis than a single Phil image. History is about to repeat itself. This is bad enough to make it almost unworthy of HN. But otherwise it did the job of answering the question well enough.

by gnrlst 7y ago

sjroot 7y ago

For more information about the author, their personal site: http://voicefirst.expert/ http://voicefirst.expert/

rmilejczz 7y ago
LetsEncrypt is so simple in 2019 it really makes me cringe to see sites served over HTTP, especially when the site belongs to some self proclaimed “visionary”

vaxman 7y ago

I wouldn't go so far as to condemn him simply for trying to get his message out with Twitter trickery. Twitter itself is a giant freak show with "soft bans" etc. and would have already gone the way of My_ if it hadn't been for a certain politician using it to bypass the talking heads on TV.

rmilejczz 7y ago

This is one of my major gripes with quora, I feel like it attracts and rewards these types of folks who are then immediately trusted thanks to their very high “internet point” scores

Cyberdog 7y ago
Yeah, sites which permit upvoting of posts and comments and display a total of upvotes received on user profiles are really cancerous.
- rmilejczz 7y ago
  I wouldn’t go that far, but when vote count is the primary means end users rely on to determine whether or not someone is “correct” then yeah, it can be problematic. I feel the same way about SO, but I wouldn’t extend this criticism to reddit or hacker news.
  - dmix 7y ago
    It's still a compromise when you're depending on people to create user-generated content for you. One could argue this article is a net-gain for the community as a whole, even if he is ultimately hawking buzzwords and his consultancy. We're still getting this long-form exposition with a bit of research into Apple patents and other direct sourcing from both Apple and others collected in one place for free. Content marketing can provide a lot more value to the world than most forms of marketing. Additionally, 99% of people are only going to read the first half where he explains it's an ultra-wideband chip with a few examples then move on. They aren't going to dig into his futuristic predictions and other consultancy nonsense, or even look at his name. Although having to skim through crap like this in order to get to the meat is a bit annoying: > Many folks in the payment industry including disruptive startups thought me insane and went about becoming redundant when Apple Pay was released. Of course I had far more basis than a single Phil image. History is about to repeat itself. This is bad enough to make it almost unworthy of HN. But otherwise it did the job of answering the question well enough.