3 ms·
The weed-smoking, Labubu-loving, hackathon king of SF
- bgwalter 1y ago[flagged]
- mindslight 1y agoI don't know that he engages in enough viciousness signalling.
- reactordev 1y agoOne of these things is not like the others…
- burnt-resistor 1y agoGrifters gonna grift.
- Incipient 1y ago[assumptions included for effect] One of the greatest grifters of all time is your president. "grifting" succeeds. It may not be required, but it succeeds. So people do it. These people are often called "salesmen" or "business development managers", but they sell the dream all the same.
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoKing of hackathons doesn’t know how to code. Got it. Good encapsulation of how corrupted hackathon culture has become. Basically just “idea guys” have gotten great at LARPing and hijacked the scene.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoThat's always been the case with the Silicon Valley meetup non-technical, wantrepreneur posers though.
- eskatonic 1y ago"Wantrepreneur." Today I embiggened my vocabulary.
- beanshadow 1y agoHackathon culture is different than it was, but that doesn't mean it's worse for the average person. It could be that "idea guys" do the important hackathon culture work better. Highly innovative people are a little off the beaten path, but describing them as a cultural corrupting force is moving the community backwards.
- nubinetwork 1y agoDupe, sensationalized headline https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44480418 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44480418
- 8f2ab37a-ed6c 1y agoHow does the hackathon culture compare to the old school demoscene? My impression is that it was pretty hard to contribute to making demos without actually having some pretty deep expertise in one of the several disciplines required?
- echelon 1y agoYou meet all sorts of characters in SF. I didn't think I'd ever see this guy again. Seeing Rene headlining a celebratory blog post makes me want to vent, but this probably isn't the appropriate space. I have stories to tell, though.
- pragmatic 1y agoSurest sign we are in a bubble. Cue the strip cub scene from the big short.