Leaving the Nest

Re:Leaving the Nest by ArmandGrillet on Friday June 03, 2016 @04:16PM (#11832928)

"We should all be disrupters!": I really don't like reading bullshit like this in the middle of a blog post. Anyway, I hope this announcement means that Nest employees will have a better work-life balance, it looked pretty terrible from the recent articles posted on HN.

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Re:Leaving the Nest by jaawn on Friday June 03, 2016 @05:00PM (#11833243)

I have been cringing every time I see/hear the word "disrupt" (in its various forms) for a couple years now. In pretty much all cases, the more often a given person uses that word, the more vapid I come to think they are.

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Re:Leaving the Nest by yoodenvranx on Friday June 03, 2016 @05:16PM (#11833326)

"disrupt" is for startups/VC what "beautiful" is for Javascript/CSS frameworks.

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Re:Leaving the Nest by trhway on Friday June 03, 2016 @05:50PM (#11833529)

and "delightful" for user experience

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Re:Leaving the Nest by jkestner on Friday June 03, 2016 @06:23PM (#11833703)

"Trying to mass-produce [delight] and inject it into interactions is like forcing waiters to wear 37 pieces of flair on their uniforms." http://www.fastcodesign.com/3042849/delightful-interaction-d...

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Re:Leaving the Nest by jrockway on Friday June 03, 2016 @10:10PM (#11834566)

It will be beautiful when we disrupt the use of the word delight.

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Re:Leaving the Nest by foolfoolz on Friday June 03, 2016 @08:06PM (#11834150)

"elegant" for libraries

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Re:Leaving the Nest by api on Saturday June 04, 2016 @02:10AM (#11835177)

Delightfully beautiful elegant disruption.

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Re:Leaving the Nest by gfodor on Friday June 03, 2016 @06:08PM (#11833636)

truly, the worst of all

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Re:Leaving the Nest by areyouforreal on Friday June 03, 2016 @11:48PM (#11834817)

Amen to both of these.

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Re:Leaving the Nest by jwiley on Friday June 03, 2016 @08:32PM (#11834255)

"bespoke"

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Re:Leaving the Nest by pm24601 on Friday June 03, 2016 @09:41PM (#11834487)

Our coworking space did not get your memo: http://www.bespokesf.co/

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Re:Leaving the Nest by kylestlb on Friday June 03, 2016 @06:16PM (#11833672)

Don't forget 'a joy to work with'.

Sounds like a line from a new episode of HBO's Silicon Valley.

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Re:Leaving the Nest by kuyan on Friday June 03, 2016 @06:11PM (#11833652)

also "elegant".

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Re:Leaving the Nest by glitcher on Friday June 03, 2016 @06:23PM (#11833702)

simple, clean, lightweight

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Re:Leaving the Nest by mindcrime on Friday June 03, 2016 @05:40PM (#11833474)

"A broken sewer pipe is disruptive, but that doesn't mean you want it". ~~ Paraphrased slightly. Source: I don't remember exactly

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Re:Leaving the Nest by simonswords82 on Friday June 03, 2016 @05:35PM (#11833437)

Can I add "hackers" and "hustlers" to the cringe list please?

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Re:Leaving the Nest by jessaustin on Friday June 03, 2016 @05:59PM (#11833582)

Not on Hacker News you can't.

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Re:Leaving the Nest by joslin01 on Friday June 03, 2016 @09:49PM (#11834509)

I'm with you 100%. Both terms just feel shallow.

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Re:Leaving the Nest by j2bax on Friday June 03, 2016 @06:34PM (#11833742)

Of all the industries/technologies that need to push people to their wits end, I just don't see how it applies to a thermostat company... I mean, all the technology for it is already easily available practically off the shelf (mobile phone technology). I can give a pass to the guys that were creating the IIe, the iPhone, rockets and electric cars... But seriously, what is the big challenge here. Why can't people execute this product in fairly short order working 8-5?

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