The Industry

June’s Boulder/Denver NewTech (New Technology) MeetUp

The June MeetUp, for those of you who do not see a pattern in the last several posts, is at our Gui.Net Magazine.

Not sure what to think about these MeetUps anymore. There seems to be a little too much ‘boys club’ partisanship and prejudicial atmosphere for such an egalitarian entrepreneurial community. We already have a bad attitude about the insular inbred nature of the Boulder/Denver scene - an attitude reinforced over decades of observation of the small pond here in Boulder - an attitude which the MeetUps ameliorated for a bit, but which are now in starting to substantiate.

But there are a lot of other things for our magazine to talk about.

Why is it that the software community has the most blockheads per capita of any community (outside of the RIAA). Is the pocket-protector button-down slow-witted stubborn stereotype of programmers… accurate? Please god no.

Why are so many forums just circle jerks [there goes our China feed] of young men masturbating to some stupid concept and who react violently to any concept that might get in the way of their achieving that quick cheap 2-second self-congratulatory orgasm? And, because we all know ‘why’, how can we make cool sites that support this testosterone-driven spurt-like lemming behavior?

Why do many popular sites have godawful GUIs and yet people get used to them and make them a lot of money - we name names and make funny faces.

We try to figure out who is responsible for all the stupid methodologies that double and double again implementation time at the same time technology reduces by half, and then half again, what it takes to write an application. Is it the consultants who want to be able to charge for a lot more hours? Is it managers who are trying to force software engineers to be as predictable as computers? Or are software engineers now just that dumb that they now need to be told when to blink, swallow and nod.

Inquiring minds… won’t find the answers here, but at least they’ll find some of the questions.