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To be fair, Dziuba's criticisms of startups have always been on technical and design points. Here, Arrington is attacking the personal choices Dziuba's made, wh

by aston 18y ago

To be fair, Dziuba's criticisms of startups have always been on technical and design points. Here, Arrington is attacking the personal choices Dziuba's made, which seems a bit inappropriate for a business blog. For all I can tell, Pressflip will be better off for having dropped a founder whose priorities were shifting strongly away from the company. But the business reporting aspect was ignored in leiu of Arrington's "I told you so" post that is basically aimed at having the triumphant last word in the overly personal spat he's been having with Dziuba since way back. I think if there's anything due Ted via karma, it's an Uncov like bashing of the technical aspects of Pressflip (which, as far as I can tell, is actually well architected...). Why rag on a guy for living his life?

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neilk 18y ago
To be fair, Dziuba's criticisms of startups have always been on technical and design points. Not really. Dziuba's rants had a self-pitying aspect. He seemed to be really bitter about the success or inordinate attention given to people he considered less talented than himself. It was like a kid who joins math club and is deeply distressed to find out that even in math club, there are the popular kids who get away with everything. I sympathize -- I've been that kid. And the Web 2.0 scene was, IS, ripe for satire. But I think Ted (or at least his blogger persona) tended to be more about the rage of the child prodigy that, as an adult, is no longer the center of attention.
- jamesbritt 18y ago
  "Not really. Dziuba's rants had a self-pitying aspect. He seemed to be really bitter about the success or inordinate attention given to people he considered less talented than himself." Wow. I got none of that from his posts. Unlike most ranters, he never struck me as bitter or slighted, just bizarrely funny in his attacks on what he thought were dopey ideas or poor implementations.
  - neilk 18y ago
    Hm, maybe you're right. I just went back to uncov's archive and I do agree with about 95% of what he says. But he did have this obsession with tearing down "beautiful people" who weren't particularly great programmers, like Leah Culver and Kevin Rose. I don't know if anything he said about them was actually wrong, but it just seems so high-school-nerdish to care so much.

by aston 18y ago

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neilk 18y ago

To be fair, Dziuba's criticisms of startups have always been on technical and design points. Not really. Dziuba's rants had a self-pitying aspect. He seemed to be really bitter about the success or inordinate attention given to people he considered less talented than himself. It was like a kid who joins math club and is deeply distressed to find out that even in math club, there are the popular kids who get away with everything. I sympathize -- I've been that kid. And the Web 2.0 scene was, IS, ripe for satire. But I think Ted (or at least his blogger persona) tended to be more about the rage of the child prodigy that, as an adult, is no longer the center of attention.

jamesbritt 18y ago
"Not really. Dziuba's rants had a self-pitying aspect. He seemed to be really bitter about the success or inordinate attention given to people he considered less talented than himself." Wow. I got none of that from his posts. Unlike most ranters, he never struck me as bitter or slighted, just bizarrely funny in his attacks on what he thought were dopey ideas or poor implementations.
- neilk 18y ago
  Hm, maybe you're right. I just went back to uncov's archive and I do agree with about 95% of what he says. But he did have this obsession with tearing down "beautiful people" who weren't particularly great programmers, like Leah Culver and Kevin Rose. I don't know if anything he said about them was actually wrong, but it just seems so high-school-nerdish to care so much.