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> He tried to fit in the german hacker culture, but everyone knew he was a fraud. Meanwhile readers of "HackerNews" and all the self-proclaimed "Hackers" at YC
by yapcguy 13y ago
> He tried to fit in the german hacker culture, but everyone knew he was a fraud.
Meanwhile readers of "HackerNews" and all the self-proclaimed "Hackers" at YC start-ups and all the trendy new "Growth Hackers" of course have much more in common with the CCC and hacker culture...
> he tried to recruit young people on the mailing list into shady jobs with promises of easy money
Like every entrepreneur at venture backed start-ups, right?!
- zwdr 13y ago>Meanwhile readers of "HackerNews" and all the self-proclaimed "Hackers" at YC start-ups and all the trendy new "Growth Hackers" of course have much more in common with the CCC and hacker culture... Please do a Ctrl+f again, I'm sure you wont find anything about HN or Start-Ups in my post. >Like every entrepreneur at venture backed start-ups, right?! Dunno, guess some startups are shady, guess some don't. Can we please talk about Kimble now? You're derailing the topic here.
- ramblerman 13y agoNot really, he's trying to show that in the context of HN and startups kimble was doing what a lot of people do here, just using a different medium