3 ms·

not everyone agrees with you, i'm afraid. more generally, this is something you'll learn as you get older - a lot of things you thought were cool, aren't. not

not everyone agrees with you, i'm afraid. more generally, this is something you'll learn as you get older - a lot of things you thought were cool, aren't. not even one direction. reality's a bitch, son. sorry.

VladRussian2 13y ago
yep, the article is thoroughly seeded with absolutely not subliminal "cool" stimuli especially effective for young males. Living in the Valley, that one struck home with me, was hard to stop laughing. Aura of danger and secrecy... Dragging with you a 6ft+ 270lb ex-Marine bodyguard _conspicuously_ in Palo Alto. Friday night on University: I'm Dork, James Dork. Well, everybody has his own way to overcompensate.
- ethanbond 13y ago
  Or maybe the tech company has, Idk, cool tech. Although I guess appreciating it would take more than a reactionary pants-pissing any time a writer happens to mention 'PRISM' and another (unrelated) company in the same article.
ethanbond 13y ago
Have you ever seen a Palantir product demo? It's technologically damn cool, regardless of your take on a Forbes writer's take on one employee. If someone watches their demos or tours their offices and doesn't walk out at least slightly giddy, they're either paranoid of the solutions or ignorant of the problems. Or both.
- VladRussian2 13y ago
  >It's technologically damn cool, regardless of your take on a Forbes writer's take on one employee. If someone watches their demos or tours their offices and doesn't walk out at least slightly giddy, they're either paranoid of the solutions or ignorant of the problems. Or both. i guess this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6209907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6209907 explains maximalism and arrogance of your statements. As i said - "cool" stimuli for young males.
  - ethanbond 13y ago
    My comments are arrogant? You clearly know nothing about neither the company nor the product, yet you assume the allure of it comes from the "cool" stimuli? Maybe you and I have different definitions of "cool," because Palantir's offices certainly aren't "cool" in any "stereotypical young male" type of way. The entire company is filled to the brim with nerdy Tolkein references - not "cool". One of their product lines is versioned by Carebears for god's sake - not "cool". What makes them cool is the fact that their products solve actual problems (and create some, sure) instead of selling ads or trying to conquer to-do lists. Also for me as a designer, I like their product development structure and cycle. I guess it would take more than a Forbes article-worth of exposure for you to see something appreciable.
    - VladRussian2 13y ago
      >What makes them cool is the fact that their products solve actual problems [...] instead of selling ads or trying to conquer to-do lists. yes, The Pitch that youth is falling so easily prey for. Any country, any historic period. The great lie of this pitch only smartest(or luckiest) among us understand from the start, and it takes many years for the rest of us to understand it.
      - ethanbond 13y ago
        Care to explain or is your intelligence just too far beyond that level of thought?

VladRussian2 13y ago

yep, the article is thoroughly seeded with absolutely not subliminal "cool" stimuli especially effective for young males. Living in the Valley, that one struck home with me, was hard to stop laughing. Aura of danger and secrecy... Dragging with you a 6ft+ 270lb ex-Marine bodyguard _conspicuously_ in Palo Alto. Friday night on University: I'm Dork, James Dork. Well, everybody has his own way to overcompensate.

ethanbond 13y ago
Or maybe the tech company has, Idk, cool tech. Although I guess appreciating it would take more than a reactionary pants-pissing any time a writer happens to mention 'PRISM' and another (unrelated) company in the same article.

ethanbond 13y ago

Have you ever seen a Palantir product demo? It's technologically damn cool, regardless of your take on a Forbes writer's take on one employee. If someone watches their demos or tours their offices and doesn't walk out at least slightly giddy, they're either paranoid of the solutions or ignorant of the problems. Or both.

VladRussian2 13y ago
>It's technologically damn cool, regardless of your take on a Forbes writer's take on one employee. If someone watches their demos or tours their offices and doesn't walk out at least slightly giddy, they're either paranoid of the solutions or ignorant of the problems. Or both. i guess this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6209907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6209907 explains maximalism and arrogance of your statements. As i said - "cool" stimuli for young males.
- ethanbond 13y ago
  My comments are arrogant? You clearly know nothing about neither the company nor the product, yet you assume the allure of it comes from the "cool" stimuli? Maybe you and I have different definitions of "cool," because Palantir's offices certainly aren't "cool" in any "stereotypical young male" type of way. The entire company is filled to the brim with nerdy Tolkein references - not "cool". One of their product lines is versioned by Carebears for god's sake - not "cool". What makes them cool is the fact that their products solve actual problems (and create some, sure) instead of selling ads or trying to conquer to-do lists. Also for me as a designer, I like their product development structure and cycle. I guess it would take more than a Forbes article-worth of exposure for you to see something appreciable.
  - VladRussian2 13y ago
    >What makes them cool is the fact that their products solve actual problems [...] instead of selling ads or trying to conquer to-do lists. yes, The Pitch that youth is falling so easily prey for. Any country, any historic period. The great lie of this pitch only smartest(or luckiest) among us understand from the start, and it takes many years for the rest of us to understand it.
    - ethanbond 13y ago
      Care to explain or is your intelligence just too far beyond that level of thought?