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LOL What an article. "Now that the tech industry is cool, the pretty people are taking over, flooding out of top-tier universities with MBAs and social graces a

by tux 12y ago

LOL What an article. "Now that the tech industry is cool, the pretty people are taking over, flooding out of top-tier universities with MBAs and social graces and carefully coiffed hair, shouldering the misfits and weirdos out of the way." Good luck with that :) Don't judge the book by its cover! "While we do, though, we need the weirdos, the rebels, the counterculture, to be gathering together and founding companies." Not sure what misfits and weirdos they mean maybe "Pretty People"

bigtunacan 12y ago
Techcrunch puts out so much garbage and fluff these days that I just don't bother anymore.
- tux 12y ago
  Yeah, I couldn't stop laughing when read the article.
- DannoHung 12y ago
  I have personally long argued that TechCrunch should be outright banned from HN.
blackobelisk 12y ago
conflating ugliness with being counterculture lol
LanceH 12y ago
I'm not sure what techcrunch truly brings us, but I'm not worried about the "pretty people" crowding out the computer science, engineer, math and science majors. There are too many qualities that can't be faked and no amount of hair gel will compensate. It will always be easy to find someone who has paid the price over someone who just bought the clothes.
- freshhawk 12y ago
  The power dynamic being discussed isn't about people being crowded out. It's about their autonomy and profit sharing being reduced. The same people will still do the work, that's half the point. You are taking "pretty people" too literally.
- jqm 12y ago
  On the flip side, wearing hair gel doesn't mean a person can't program a computer.