can i just remind everyone that when i worked with this bozo in the early 00s, he was too dense to understand the idea of javascript animation not the code. the idea. - ThreadSky

amyhoy.bsky.social • 73 days ago

can i just remind everyone that when i worked with this bozo in the early 00s, he was too dense to understand the idea of javascript animation

not the code. the idea.

Reposted from Jake Grumbach

“We are living under FDR’s personal monarchy.”

-Marc Andreessen, quoting Curtis Yarvin, yesterday

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socialmediahandle.bsky.social•73 days ago

Four individuals could be the subject of this skeet.

shannonhey.bsky.social•40 days ago

Probably more. There are a lot of VCs ⭕️-jerking, and that committee has resulted in a lot of camels.

amyhoy.bsky.social•73 days ago

everyone else seems to have understood which bozo i am referring to

socialmediahandle.bsky.social•73 days ago

That's fair.

thoth.ptnote.dev•40 days ago

I don't know if Netscape/Mozilla was the first to implement JS animation, but I want to believe it was because that would make this even funnier.

iraweinschel.com•40 days ago

I think this was actually Microsoft in 1997 with IE4.

thoth.ptnote.dev•40 days ago

alas. Ah well.

lockfarm.bsky.social•73 days ago

Distressingly believable. His latest pronouncements have been the sort of self-serving dumb nonsense you'd expect of the worst of the VC world.

dawnxianamoon.bsky.social•73 days ago

... How does one misunderstand Javascript animation?

amyhoy.bsky.social•73 days ago

i kept explaining a simple animation (“you view the card, and to edit it, we’ll make it look like the card flips over”) and he just. could. not. get it

bindlestiff.bsky.social•40 days ago

Was it “No wait - this has to be an embedded Flash window?” or just deep cluelessness?

amyhoy.bsky.social•40 days ago

so much simpler than that

i was saying how i would make the interface look: when you went to edit the data in the "card" object, the card would "flip over" to show a form. that's it.

bindlestiff.bsky.social•40 days ago

My God 😶

amyhoy.bsky.social•40 days ago

right? i was 20 years old and this was a genuinely formative experience

markmadsen.bsky.social•73 days ago

Believable based on my (two) interactions with him in the 90s. He was not that smart, he was timely and lucky.

wohdin.bsky.social•73 days ago

this is basically every rich person ever, as any smart person understands that there is no value in hoarding wealth

davidjorgonson.bsky.social•72 days ago

Also if you gamble and lose you won't be rich or famous. Nobody does big profiles on failed startups

pwndr.bsky.social•40 days ago

Marc Andreessen and David Sacks get to me. Maybe it’s because they created a single product back in the aughts and have been lecturing about meritocracy the last ~5 years while resting on their laurels.

caveatruptur.bsky.social•58 days ago

now the whole java/javascript/jscript debacle makes sense. this guy makes bad choices.

caveatruptur.bsky.social•58 days ago

or maybe all his choices are just following the hype

ayayronk.bsky.social•40 days ago

Bingo

tamslick.bsky.social•72 days ago

These guys have done their intellectual reputations no favors by becoming social media addicts.

"Bro, you keep saying manifestly stupid stuff and I'm beginning to think you really aren't that bright."

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