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Kinda sad that the internet never seems to remember the guys who make insightful, prescient comments, but boy do they remember the comically incorrect predictio
by AdmiralAsshat 5y ago
Kinda sad that the internet never seems to remember the guys who make insightful, prescient comments, but boy do they remember the comically incorrect predictions. Random music fan who thought the "new" iPod looked lame compared to his Creative Zen? Lives forever in infamy. HN SysAdmin who thought DropBox was silly because he can write his own backup scripts in Bash with rsync? That guy will be the face of "Linux Users Who Don't Understand The Average Consumer" for decades to come.
- qchris 5y agoJust as a counter-example, one of my favorite HN comments of all time is from someone who remembered someone (kinda meta, right?) who called the Theranos fraud almost exactly years before it came out. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29765308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29765308 (this is the thread remembering that comment) [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349349 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349349 (this is the thread with the original comment)
- lahirurlt 5y agoI also enjoyed all the HN takes that counteracted the uBeam hype machine in wireless energy transmission
- jamestimmins 5y agoI for one have learned through a lot of these over-hyped (and fraudulent) companies that when the public thinks something sounds impossible/highly infeasible, but the VCs swear there's something there, it's *much* more likely that the VC is buying into hype without doing sufficient research than it is that they know something that a generally intelligent public doesn't.