Comment by simonw
19 days ago
The "social engineering" is that I was invited to a demo back in October and thought it was really interesting.
(Two people who's opinions I respect said "yeah you really should accept that invitation" otherwise I probably wouldn't have gone.)
I've been looking forward to being able to write more details about what they're doing ever since.
Justin never invites me in when he brings the cool folks in! Dang it...
I will look forward to that blog post then, hopefully it has more details than this one.
EDIT nvm just saw your other comment.
Is this the black box folks you mentioned?
It's the dark factory people, yeah: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739117#46801848
You don't see why a company would gain to invite bloggers that will happily write positively about them? Talk about a conflict of interest, the FTC should ban companies from doing this.
Someone call the FTC! John Gruber has gone to a private event hosted by Apple. In fact, he's done it more than once! The scoundrel must be locked up.
Are you saying that because I have a blog I should be banned from going to meetings or demos of anything, for any reason?
This reads like a total joke.