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- theungeek, on 10/12/2007, -4/+89Isn't this more like "six things that you would be kind of a dick to say anywhere,"?
The whine about hot girls is officially the oldest gripe about the tech industry, "I don't care about you, your card, your business or that other guy's business" are just fancy ways of saying that most people aren't very interesting, and talking about envying people's financial success is tacky in any crowd. - CaptainWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+63*sighs*
The Wii sucks
The PS3 is amazing
Ubuntu is gay
Linux is gay
Apple sucks
HDR isn't pretty
that looks like a man
Pi is indeed 3
Nintendo is bad
Wal Mart isn't so bad
I love the RIAA.
hope I got them all. - drjekelmrhyde, on 10/12/2007, -10/+561 thing you cant say on Digg
Google sucks
the digg down will show what I mean - ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -9/+47Or Apple sucks...
- goat2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+42or kevin rose is a tool
- McTendo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+41The Googles killed Jeeves :*(
- MasterDwarf, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35how about...
Kevin Rose was just lucky. - schoate09, on 10/12/2007, -4/+33Most retarded article I ever read.
- Insignian, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30Another thing that you can't say on digg
G4 is better then Techtv - TroubleInMind, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22I've been in this cesspool for a while, and while I do not know the author, the rants he lays down I usually associate with jealous outsiders. Yes, the industry is full of prima donnas, spoiled brats, elitist scum, and people whose looks are near the low end of the bell shaped curve. So please tell me, sir, since you hold them in such low esteem, why do you choose to socialize with them?
There is a scene in "Say Anything" where Lloyd comes across a few of his peers getting drunk in a quicky mart parking lot. Lloyd is angry because his girlfriend blew him off. The well-meaning peers offer him endless sage advice about women. Mostly stuff like "***** those ***** bitches" and the like. Lloyd comes to his senses and says "Hey, if you guys know so much about women, how come you are sitting in a quicky mark parking lot getting drunk on Friday night?"
The peers look at each other and it's quiet for a minute. One of them says "Um, by CHOICE, man, totally by choice!"
So you and your pals, mister prima donna blog ranter, you guys have a lovely time in the quicky mart parking lot complaining about women, while I go get laid. - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23@captainweasel
You forgot
God Exists
Richard Dawkins is a *****
Bush is the greatest leader ever!
Obama sucks
Jack Thompson is right
VT was caused by video games
I found a workaround to "Bush is the greatest leader ever".
"Bush is the greatest leader ever to be elected by the Supreme Court" - catfish182, on 10/12/2007, -11/+29/is very curious
Google Sucks Ass - bIuebonics, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22"though I probably would have just asked for your e-mail, so I could ping you."
unless ping has taken on a meaning other than "send an icmp packet and wait for a response" i'd say he's just spouting rubbish. and if ping is being used in this manner, please point out whoever started this idiotic trend and let me smack them. - DirtyCash, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18People in "the biz" do use the term ping. It kind of annoys me as well but its there.
Example:
"Dude, what's your IM? I will ping you when I get back to work." - ej25goddess, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19There are plenty of cute women here working in the tech industry, we just dont want to hang around dicks who would ask a list of questions like that.
- GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Vista is the best OS ever.
- blankartist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Somebody didn't get the "Grunge and distressed look is over" memo. Please, fix that masthead. Also, Silicon Valley isn't the Center of the Universe.
- Powder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Wow, someones bitter
- thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+117.) "You know... I think Bush has been right all along."
- t4ll3y, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Without context, it's like being in opposite land.
- bIuebonics, on 10/12/2007, -9/+16Lunix is for noobs :P
- daborg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Also known as "Six things you rant about that I couldn't care less about."
- PrionHunter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Yeah, this story was pretty lame. The biggest problem I have is that the guy in the article was ripping on all these people whose only apparent fault is that they are really passionate about what they do. If your passion is all things tech, art, or whatever, then thats what you usually want to talk about with your peers. I admit I'm passionate about what I do(coding, thinking up new coding projects to do in my offtime) and people who aren't passionate can find me boring to talk to. But there is the interesting thing, I love talking to people who are passionate about something, anything. I could talk with someone who loved even modern, yes modern, art for hours. It seems to me the writer doesn't understand this or has forgotten it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I've lost all hope for you people.
- patience, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5How to suck at interpersonal relationships.
No wonder this guy is writing a blog while others around him are making millions.
Try to be nice once in a while. People may bring you one into one of their tech companies and you can make a fortune with them. - juliocgrajales, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Damn, dude everyone feels these things, its just polite to make believe that you are not the only person that exists in this universe. This is not only a Silicon Valley/Tech thing, it happens in many of places... I bet if all these things was not an issue you would find something else to gripe about. Again someone complaining about someone else complaining, where is the sense:
"You can't say anything interesting without offending a crowd of prigs that make anyone of substance feel like Evita staring down the Argentinian aristocracy." - PolicePeople, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9these are more like things you shouldn't really say to anybody unless you just want to be an *****.
- Comatose51, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Sounds like a very bitter person who never really fit in here in the valley.
I moved here from the upscale part of Dallas so there's definitely a lot less Jessica Simpson lookalikes here. On the flip side, women here tend to be more fit, interesting or have more common interests with people like me. To a techy and a cyclist like me, women here are much more attractive.
Who the hell talks about gadgets at a party? Wantabe nerds showing off? Real engineers have much more interesting topics to talk about. A lot of them tend to be very worldly and conscious of what's going on. If nothing else, engineers can talk about interesting problems in science and math. Having worked in both software and finance, MBAs tend to talk aobut gadgets, not Ph.D.
What kind ***** ass Silicon Valley party has this douche bag been invited to? I guess he was never good enough to make the list, even though most of them are quite open. Sounds like a douche bag who would fit in or try to fit in more in Manhattan. - maehem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yeah. That $9mil number is absolute crap.
If you can get your investments (excluding IRA) to about $1mil, you can reasonably exceed 10% per year
in interest or growth. That gives you a spendable or re-investable income (say to your IRA) of about $100K per year. Move
to an area where the average income is closer to $60K and you can live like a king or at least like you do now without working.
I think most people who think it takes more to retire early, have some impression that they need to live
in a mansion and drive a Rolls Royce in order to get by. I want what I have now, I just want 8-10 more
hours a day to do what I want. - Barryke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5nothing to say except not 42
- Omega19, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6More like "Six Reasons This Guy Is A Douche Bag" that probably talks ***** about all his friends behind their backs.
I'm not in the "Tech" industry, but if I was this clown would be on my list of people to avoid / destroy. - bigtomrodney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3In all fairness, maybe them expecting you to be their devoted ear is them not being nice. If we're talking about niceness, maybe quit whining and act like life exists outside business. Why bother having a social event if it's just an extension of work.
- definiteform, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4What about poverty isn't solved with donations? (Said by Carlos Slim in response to Buffet and Gates)
- D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I agree with theungeek
These are things you shouldn't really ever say at a party...unless you want to sound like a jerk - frestyl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3O.K. I saw the title and was intrigued, maybe this was some insightful view into the tech social seen. Then I read through and found ... I just wasted 5 minutes of my life.
Thanks! - bootfail, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If you are going to spam us with your crappy site, make sure it works first.
- bigtomrodney, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7So I'm supposed to take the word of someone with the word 'goddess' in their name that they are one of the cute ones. Yeah that modesty is attractive...
- Camaroman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Can someone say, hater?
- zephc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why does 'ping' annoy you? its a good term for contacting to see if you're there or not, which is what ping is for.
- mike23w, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2He starts off with: "You can't say anything interesting without offending a crowd of prigs"
Then enumerates a list:
1. No hot girls
2. I don't want your business card
3. You're boring
4. You're business is boring
5. I don't care if you're a young person with a business
6. I'm jealous of your money.
He got the offensive part down, but I missed
the part where he says something interesting.
Not enough hot girls, you and your business are boring,
I'm jealous of your money. Really? That's supposed to be
interesting?
Hypocrite. - tech42er, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My laptop with Vista is pretty slow and the graphics are terrible. It's a Inspiron 1501 (dual core AMD processor with integrated ATI Radeon Xpress1150 graphics with a gig or RAM and 128 MB of VRAM, 256 MB shared RAM). My friend upgraded his laptop last year. It is an HP (not sure of the model number) but it has an AMD Sempron processor and integrated ATI Radeon 200M (which is the slightly slower, but otherwise the same as the Xpress1150 graphics). Now, his laptop seems to be faster and have better graphics than mine, The only other difference is that his runs XP SP2 and I run Vista Premium. So I blame Vista.
- fgirl917, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2yeah, i also agree with theungeek. i f you said those six things to anybody, they end up feeling very insulted. has anybody actually been told these things? if so, please tell.
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3"Just remember that the richest man in the world is a nerd who cried in front of the Supreme Court, and the company that made him rich can't put out a decent operating system even after five years of work."
Windows Vista is fine.
I cant understand why so many people hate it!
Can ANYBODY tell me why its so bad?
Windows Vista Beta 2 itself was very stable.
And, please dont spout the DRM *****. you KNOW its now MS's fault. - osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Here's one: "Bubble"
- NickDouglas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually, since Zooomr is translated into over a dozen other languages, it's useful outside the English-speaking world. That's why it's the most popular social photo-sharing site in many countries. I thought the same thing you did until someone explained it to me.
- Iriel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yeah, I'm sure the girls get tired of being fawned over by "desperate and ugly men", but I'm willing to bet curmudgeons like the author aren't helping the matter either. This asshat is the same guy that writes for Blogebrity and hosts Look Shiny! He's just trying to carve a niche for himself by playing the all too pragmatic cynic. My guess is that he's just jealous that he hasn't found the level of tech-fame like the people he (poorly) writes about.
- HoldenMcCrank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1>No, I've been trained to slap an asinine grin on my face and waggle my eyebrows at your bad jokes, even if I'd rather join the bukkake cluster gathering around this party's one almost-hot girl.
That's quality right there. - juliocgrajales, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You either love to use copy and paste, or you actually analyzed all this information by spending a huge amount of time reading digg posts, (this is where a quick, witty joke, was going to be insertted, but I could not think of any)
- oesj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1just about the only thing this guy manages to compliment was zooomr. and why?? its just a poor version of flickr with google maps cellotaped on the end; usually painfully slow to boot.
- Travisx2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, from one of those comments I read:
"VD is caused by video games"
whew.. I thought my Other life was over there for a minute! -
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