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>What's with the sudden outpouring of Google-hate of late? It's because Google is now an established corporation and has run out of "startup cred." Now that t
by na85 13y ago
>What's with the sudden outpouring of Google-hate of late?
It's because Google is now an established corporation and has run out of "startup cred." Now that they've become a stable, profitable, publicly-traded member of the corporate scene, they're the antithesis of the HipsterNews crowd who want to keep making webapps with no marketabilitiy over and over again.
The Bay Area startup crowd are the definition of hipsters. Once something becomes big and mainstream, they're obligated to hate it because hipsters define themselves as "anti-x" where x is { corporation | government | society | whatever }.
Their only identity is as "not employees of a Big Software Company" and as a result, lately the culture on HN has been consumed by a seemingly neverending series of mediocre posts about startups and the absolutely horrible culture that surrounds them.
- mhurron 13y ago> It's because Google is now an established corporation and has run out of "startup cred." Now that they've become a stable, profitable, publicly-traded member of the corporate scene, they're the antithesis of the HipsterNews crowd who want to keep making webapps with no marketabilitiy over and over again. Yes it has absolutely nothing to do with their recent and current actions. Everyone is just a startup hipster here. Meh, I was hating on G+ before it was cool. No G+, no Facebook, no MySpace. You ain't got nothing on me.
- na85 13y ago>Everyone is just a startup hipster here. I recognize that my comment contained hyperbole but you know what? That "4chan does HN" thread was spot-on in many places.
- philwelch 13y agoAre you trolling?
- dredmorbius 13y agoIf you've got to ask ...
- SPSteinbeck 13y agoEat shit.