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> but when they went on the road selling snake-oil about their trivial HSV "paint mixer" I really started to see the negativity in the hype. Why blame the entr
by monsterix 13y ago
> but when they went on the road selling snake-oil about their trivial HSV "paint mixer" I really started to see the negativity in the hype.
Why blame the entrepreneur for media hyperbole?
Tech media lately is full of hired journalists from traditional(sic) media. Many claim to be tech journos but only a handful understand technology. Guess it's a pattern similar to how mainstream reports on Snowden rather than real issues.
- corresation 13y agoAbsolutely true, however they were complicit in the snake oil pitch, offering up quotes that were technically questionable, claiming some innovation that simply didn't exist. The alternate scenario is that some developers churned for a year and then led a manager on about how magical what they created was. http://goo.gl/jItcf http://goo.gl/jItcf