Seriously? Another Email About This Shit?

Oh, joy. TechCrunch is spamming everyone *again* about their Disrupt conference. Apparently, if you haven’t already blown your rent money on a ticket to watch VCs pretend to care about startups, today’s the last day for “early bird” pricing. Which means it’ll still cost an ungodly amount of cash. They’re dangling some vague promises of networking and “inspiration” – as if inspiration pays the bills.

They’ve got a whole spiel about how amazing the speakers are, blah blah blah. Look, it’s San Francisco. It’ll be 90% pitch decks and 10% people trying to look important while failing upwards. Standard fare. They even threw in some discount codes for students because *someone* has to keep this pyramid scheme going.

Bottom line: if you have more money than sense, go ahead. Otherwise, save your cash for something useful – like actual food or maybe a decent internet connection. Don’t say I didn’t warn you when you’re eating ramen in a shared house after spending it on this nonsense.

Seriously, just stop sending me these emails.

Link to the original soul-crushing announcement

Speaking of wasting money, I once had a user try to optimize a script for calculating pi… using a neural network. A *neural network*. For freaking pi! The resulting output was less accurate than just typing 3.14 into a calculator. Some people are beyond help, and Disrupt attendees probably fall into that category.

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