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Comment by FirstHopSystems | Hacker News Reader

For the Love of GOD who cares about how much money Color raised. It was nice to hear about, oh..the first 4 times here.

Deleting the huge rant I just typed up.

Anyone want to throw in ideas on why Color is such a hot topic? I might be a little blind to it due to my attitude reading it on here so many times.

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Everyone whose on this "are we still talking about color" thing is starting to get on my nerves. Theres still LOTS of mileage in it - more write ups, VC opinions, yada yada.

Its how the world works. They just raised $41m, one of the largest pre-launch rounds. Expect to hear about them.

Saying "are we still talking about color" doesn't make you cool. Nobody cares if your "over it because your so hooked in to the tech scene".

If you don't want to read about it, don't click on the link.

If there's something insightful to say, sure. But the bubble/not-bubble, talented-team/questionable-product, smart-VCs/dumb-VCs, can't-use-$41m/can-use-$41m debates don't seem to be getting anywhere, as far as I've seen. Not just that it's repetitive, but that none of the discussions, even if they were the first and only one you saw, has a lot of substance. They all seem to be some combination of ridicule and "it's not worth ridiculing but maybe is good" defensiveness, with both sides mostly based on speculation rather than any solid facts.

Am I missing the insightful writeups where this case study can help me learn something about either technology or the technology business? I click to the HN discussion in hopes of finding such things!

This particular writeup said a lot about the strategies Sequoia could be using to protect themselves which I hadn't seen in previous discussions.

I see a lot of similarity between the Color discussions and anything written about Fukushima; a small number of facts are being drawn together to produce wide-reaching conclusions. It is a lot less interesting to say "we don't know all the facts so lets just wait and see how this turns out". These days I find it much harder to find people who are undecided about a topic - everything is polarising.

Because they have done what (almost) everyone on here wants to do, get funding for their idea. The fact that the idea is "obvious" and "simple" means everyone can bike shed [1] it to death.

[1] http://bikeshed.com/

Way to go on missing the point. I did ask 'Why' is it such a hot topic.

I was hoping to get a little more of a response about my question than my comment. I didn't want to discount the buzz color is creating.

My thoughts were, I'm not Color, It's not the last ever VC deal in the world(I hope)...and most important, It's not helping me debug this FPGA I'm working on =P.