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I was almost going to feel bad that I'd never heard of either of them until I found a kindred spirit.
by ante_annum 14y ago
I was almost going to feel bad that I'd never heard of either of them until I found a kindred spirit.
- moron4hire 14y agoI finally came to terms with this about a year ago. On HN, you're going to see the soap opera version of silicon valley. Necessarily, most elements are going to be blown way out of proportion just to justify a narrative. Without the narrative, what hope do the rest of these poor slobs have of catching the huge attention their VCs want to make them feel fuzzy and warm about their fuggly valuations?
- ante_annum 14y agoAs someone who a) doesn't live in SV, and b) doesn't work for a startup, I miss a lot of the inner plot that happens in the HN narrative.
- jamessb 14y agoIn this case, it's 'science' not 'Silicon Valley' (Mendely's offices are in London and New York; Elsevier's headquarters are in Amsterdam). Elsevier is one of the biggest scientific publishers, with over 2,000 journals, including several with very high impact factors (eg. Cell).