Comments on Why does everything suck?: Too Much Suckage

I agree 100%, and find it refreshing to come acros...

2008-05-01T07:11:00.000-04:00

I agree 100%, and find it refreshing to come across thoughts that resonate with mine . . . can the best that people are doing only amount to yet another mass consumption, lowest denominator targeting, braindead pile of will hopefully become trendy disposable junk that might only succeed on whether some meaningless meme catches on with the room temperature IQ crowd?

Arrgghh

It's pathetic, the me too silly domain names . . . the apparently endless focus on MBA stuff . . . from reading many of the threads on HN for example, I wonder why those guys didn't just go to Suit school . . . they certainly seem more focused on Suit BS than on tech . . . I submitted a link to a free online textbook on Algorithms and Data Structures with Object Oriented Design Patterns in RUBY . . . didn't make it to the front page, not a single comment, not a single point . . . one would think I had submitted to an MBA news site, as opposed to a site directed to HACKERS.

Hey Hank, Not EVERYTHING sucks. For example: about...

2008-04-30T20:44:00.000-04:00

Hey Hank, Not EVERYTHING sucks.

For example: about 98% of your insights & perspective that you offer up, everyday.

Keep calling 'em as you see 'em...

What's so different about the software industry th...

2008-04-30T19:59:00.000-04:00

What's so different about the software industry that it should be exempt from Sturgeon's Law?

And thats what has kept me from finishing up any o...

2008-04-30T15:44:00.000-04:00

And thats what has kept me from finishing up any of my projects. They all seem like gimicks and I just cant have my name associate with them. Don't get me wrong, humans need entertainment as well in order to relax from time to time, but, there is too much "Wheres the beef?" lately.

A friend of mine got me reading Hacker News, which...

2008-04-30T14:04:00.000-04:00

A friend of mine got me reading Hacker News, which got me following Techcrunch, which eventually gave me this uneasy feeling about how much money, time and talent is flowing in to really trivial stuff.

Not everything, mind you. There are enablers: things like Heroku make it easier (or better, or different) to build other things. But a lot of the other things are really time-sinks that don't seem to be providing either productivity or new solutions to actual problems (e.g. Facebook/MySpace, which I still feel is like a mediocre solution to the problem of not having a phonebook for email and single online identity based on that).

I'm not saying that people shouldn't be building what interests them, but I don't know if there's some kind of feedback loop or bias which is getting people really excited about increasing the ease with which desktop widgets are created.

@anonymous,Indeed. Proof that you get what you pay...

2008-04-30T14:01:00.000-04:00

@anonymous,

Indeed. Proof that you get what you pay for here.

An additional source of suckage is the propensity ...

2008-04-30T13:58:00.000-04:00

An additional source of suckage is the propensity of bloggers to skip properly proofreading their posts.

e.g. "...I joint my fellow complainers..."

right on!

2008-04-30T10:28:00.000-04:00

right on!

I still new sites that come up that are truly usef...

2008-04-30T10:25:00.000-04:00

I still new sites that come up that are truly useful to me (and that I would pay for if I had to). For example www.mint.com.

I for myself work on a startup which will live of subscription fees for the service. But I share your confusion of the business model behind many services that allow us to blog, comment, twit etc. It seems everybody around me right now is so busy with commenting or following each others blogs/comments that there is not so much productivity left.