I want Silicon Valley to produce quality products and innovation. I don't care what culture it has as long as it respects the Constitution and the laws of the land and everyone gets a fair chance on the basis of the work they actually produce. NY Times has declined big time in recent years.
3. the next "x" with "x" being some successful social network that they want to make even worse so it can be monetized more easily,
4. buildings in which executives and managers sit, controlling far-flung centers of innovation where actual work happens, and
5. whatever HP is vomiting out next quarter
Innovation has moved elsewhere.
You don't believe me. I know you don't.
The executives, sales, and marketing folks currently driving Intel into the ground are in Santa Clara. The engineers trying to save it are in Oregon, Colorado, and overseas.
Speaking of Intel much of the Zen microarchitecture was done at Austin, and Colorado, and India. Not silicon valley.
Of course, Apple is still there, somewhat. Getting someone on HN to say Apple is innovative would make my day!
People in Oregon, Texas, Colorado, North Carolina, and elsewhere are building the future.
People in Silicon Valley are trying to figure out the best way to squeeze people in order to wring dollar bills out of them.
This is a very cynical take. Incremental innovation has captured most of the attention in the last decade but there are a lot of smart people in SV working in AI which will lead to real innovation in personal computing and robotics this decade. Some of these innovations will emerge out of smaller companies that are "classic venture bets" and will give big tech a run for its money.
Does't mean that innovation isn't happening elsewhere but SV still leads in raw talent density in everything related to computing.
Except you didn't even read the article. We cannot expect innovation by giving Adam Neuman (Who burned billions in VC funding on WeWork) another billion dollars for a second chance. This is also against the 14th Amendment but of course if it doesn't affect you then you won't give a fuck
Sure, the public doesn't benefit, but why wouldn't Andressen fund Neuman?
Neuman produced a cult that generated a beautiful pyramid scheme for those who got out early. From a VC point of view, the only issue was that VC's didn't have enough of a collar on Neuman to be able to shove him aside when he became a liability. I'm sure that mistake has been corrected.
Anyone who thinks VCs are anything other than self-interested sociopaths hasn't been paying attention.
What an inanely dumb comment - could've been written by Trump himself.
I don't particularly care for the NYT, but I've found that people with overly simplistic and hyper-narrow views of the world have become more common in silicon valley in the last 8 or so years. Chances are the reason for this is exactly what the article calls out, silicon valley was once about technology and innovation, it is now about business. It hence attracts business people and has changed the general populace of it quite a bit.
> I don't care what culture it has as long as it respects the Constitution and the laws of the land
You know that there are people outside America right? The "constitution" is not a global concept, but Silicon Valley cannot thrive without globalization.
Would you please edit name-calling and swipes out of your HN comments? They're against the site guidelines and evoke even worse from others. Please make your substantive points without any of that. Your comment here would be fine (and more persuasive) without those bits.
Why am I paying for Apple One then? Time to cancel that and switch my hardware as well. I bought into the Apple ecosystem big time because of the simplicity and cleanliness of the experience. Not interested in paid services showing ads so that Apple can make even more money that they won’t really care to innovate with.
Tbh can just use simple packages to get most stuff done. Not really sure why they’d realistically need any open source stuff besides some super limited really tested stuff. It would be really bizarre to me to understand that yes sir indeed an enormous base of the software hub
of the country is built on top of free stuff that is of questionable quality?!?! Yikes. Someone should fix that and vet those packages asap! Aren’t there automatic linters that check for this and even tell you to fix security vulnerabilities in stale packages? And third parties that are skilled in auditing open source libraries you may want to use? Working on automation for these two would be cool product ideas or jobs.
I love fixing bugs. Sometimes more than writing new things. Seeing the system health increase as I delete old code, add new tests, and increase performance is very satisfying.
I hate fixing bugs, but I love having fixed them more. It's the same sort of relationship I have with playing hard games, like Elden Ring, or whatever.
The actual search for the problem, and sometimes even the implementation of the fix, can be really frustrating, but that is a vital part in the absolutely ecstatic feeling I get from having actually Fixed The Thing.
