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I dunno man, there are two "tech" industry worlds and the one you and I -- hacker types -- think of as "tech" is not what the rest of the world means. They mean

I dunno man, there are two "tech" industry worlds and the one you and I -- hacker types -- think of as "tech" is not what the rest of the world means. They mean the other one, which has almost nothing to do with the actual technology and instead everything to do with the absolutely apeshit amount of money, power, influence and intrigue that the technology enabled. This was a very large apeshit $$ amount back in IBM vs Microsoft but the scale of it now in the era of e.g. OpenAI etc is beyond imagination. There's a whole generation of people whose association with the engineering/technology side of things only happened because of their interest in the other side of things. I too miss old Byte magazine days.

ethbr1 5mo ago
This happened when business types realized technology could be enormously profitable (~PC era). Then inevitably, tech news turned into business news.
- myst 5mo ago
  What do you get if you drop a teaspoon of business into a barrel of X? A barrel of business.
  - FeteCommuniste 5mo ago
    Maybe a little extreme but I love it.
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  - throwaway_2494 5mo ago
    And anytime programmers start to discuss anything in detail, you know just when it's getting interesting: "Can we take this 'offline'..." See also this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMVuRGw_a5A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMVuRGw_a5A
andai 5mo ago
Interesting. So, the actual concern now for the average person is ... which narcissist is steering the apocalypse? Yeah, that's slightly more engaging than RAM prices.
- globalnode 5mo ago
  Replying so I can save this comment :)
mattmaroon 5mo ago
I looked it up, MSFT’s market cap in 2005 was $278 billion and would be like $450 billion in today’s dollars. OpenAI will IPO soon AI probably more like a trillion. Crazy.
avaer 5mo ago
What gets me is back in the day when I said I was into tech I got shat on for being a nerd. Now I get shit on for destroying the world. And because I don't care about whose company is dating who (I'd rather be coding), people call me out of touch with "tech". I feel myself going insane when I think about it too much.

ethbr1 5mo ago

This happened when business types realized technology could be enormously profitable (~PC era). Then inevitably, tech news turned into business news.

myst 5mo ago
What do you get if you drop a teaspoon of business into a barrel of X? A barrel of business.
- FeteCommuniste 5mo ago
  Maybe a little extreme but I love it.
  - deleted 5mo ago
    [deleted]
- throwaway_2494 5mo ago
  And anytime programmers start to discuss anything in detail, you know just when it's getting interesting: "Can we take this 'offline'..." See also this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMVuRGw_a5A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMVuRGw_a5A

andai 5mo ago

Interesting. So, the actual concern now for the average person is ... which narcissist is steering the apocalypse? Yeah, that's slightly more engaging than RAM prices.

globalnode 5mo ago
Replying so I can save this comment :)

mattmaroon 5mo ago

I looked it up, MSFT’s market cap in 2005 was $278 billion and would be like $450 billion in today’s dollars. OpenAI will IPO soon AI probably more like a trillion. Crazy.

avaer 5mo ago

What gets me is back in the day when I said I was into tech I got shat on for being a nerd. Now I get shit on for destroying the world. And because I don't care about whose company is dating who (I'd rather be coding), people call me out of touch with "tech". I feel myself going insane when I think about it too much.