There's something here -- like "it came from a human" is, by definition, something only humans can do. Handmade, artisanal, we already have a lot of stuff like that.
I work in tech and have friends in the Bay area that work in tech and it never comes up. I honestly had forgotten Google had a walkout until this Hacker News post today. Your online search bubble / real life bubble might be heavily biasing you.
It comes up at work consistently in "future of the industry" kinds of discussions or when I get drinks with old coworkers and we talk about parts of our jobs we don't like. I've worked at pretty major companies, but also not saying my experience is universal here.
What is "your world" - no one here has even heard of it, or cares. If you take the time to think about it - swapping one incredibly high-paid job for another does not make you a martyr.
"You seem pretty upset" is a pretty passive aggressive statement. In fact, it's openly hostile since it's tantamount to stating that I am not in control of my (perceived by you) emotions (of which there are actually none). Coupled with you pretending to be the aggrieved, polite party, the irony is thick. In fact, needing to write this reply is pretty comical, thanks for the entertainment, I guess.
Edit: The more I think about it the funnier it gets. Do you think I am "not in the tech world" and upset by it? Or that I don't earn a lot of money and am upset at that? I am genuinely curious in the assumptions you made to arrive at the conclusion that I am upset/offended.
Comes up often in my day to day, too. I work in tech (and invest in startups around the future of work). People wonder whether it's the beginning of something more widespread... and nobody's crying a river for Google employees, it's more that sometimes change begins with people in the best position to bargain...
Communities supporting products that the community dislikes are like restaurants with a good location getting away with crappy food.
The product is only as good as it needs to be to serve the community -- if the community's stuck with it, then the product has no gravity pulling it to get better. That said, I happen to think Medium is just fine. The complaints in the article seem (a) to apply only to some uses, really and (b) fall into the "if you dislike it so much, make your own damn mousetrap" camp?
Hey... I run Bloomberg Beta. I think that creating a self-fulfilling prophecy is absolutely a dynamic here. Our goal wasn't to succeed at predicting so much as it is to get to know great people before they start companies. If that action induces them to start companies, and they have a great experience doing it, but our prediction's accuracy is compromised -- that's fine. We're using data as a tool to make things better, not for its predictive value in and of itself.
OUYA -- Bay Area, CA
Android OS knowers and seekers
OUYA's making a game console, built on Android. http://ouya.tv
Hardware ships in March (with developer kits going out in December). OUYA's building a small team that will create a new game platform: discovery of new games, a TV UI, eventually working on the Android NDK to improve game performance, a social layer, and... other stuff.
No titles environment, everyone works directly with the CEO. Other engineers from EA, Amazon, Pivotal, Motorola, etc. Almost everything we write could be open sourced.
You work independently, love to be wrong when a better idea comes along, play games, and maybe even backed our Kickstarter so we know you were in from the get-go. You know where the bodies are buried in Android, or can figure it out quick.
No time to write more. If you're interested, help us get to know you better with this every-question-optional get to know you...
I came to visit this group once when they were starting their program, and I'm going in again -- simply because I think the approach is conducive to identifying people who are hyper-motivated, and stripping away every possible obstacle to learning. I'm excited to see where it goes.
