posers

You run into posers more often in SF simply because a huge portion of the population is in tech.

That decrease the SNR for Y Combinator, which mean they have to work hard to separate the posers from the real thing.

So long as academics don't have to prove they did anything, there will be fakers and posers.

If there's a profession that's as full of posers and hipsters this has to be it.

This simple test eliminates the 90% of applicants who are not suited for this work and 100% of the posers.

There are definitely a lot of posers as well who are working on a startup because it's a cool thing to do.

And, yes, there are lot of hacks writing badly about these questions, but in what fields are there not a preponderance of posers?

The people who care about building great tech companies and products will stay and the posers just looking for a gold rush will leave.

There was also less of a need to maintain a real persona as it was harder to spot posers or assholes at 300 baud.

If there majority are posers, it's likely you'll run into a poser.

Ugh, that stock art photograph of a bunch of posers at the top of the screen just drains me of all motivation to read this.

More like a party house for posers who refuse to admit that they're a party crowd because they outgrew drugs (should we applaud them?) and bike.

Lots of posers share something they "worked on" but could never build in a hundred years.

How can a system dominated by posers be called a "meritocracy"?

Let's call it "Punch Free-software/hardware Posers in the Face Day".

Complaining about the word "entrepreneur" is itself a bit tacky, since for posers to annoy you that much, you must be spending too much time around them.

Posers shouldn't waste my time; I will identify them with this every time.