Don’t see anyone here putting their agency into hunting, growing their own food to move, to wind down the military industrial complex their technology careers are tethered to grifting on.
PG’s four quadrants of conformism is stupid because everyone is a political conformist in the end. That’s the perimeter of our society. Annotating them with types a billionaire preferences is creepy grooming by a white old guy.
I’ve been writing software professionally since the 90s. Tons of software is pointless crap to make jobs.
I’m gonna go with Carmack on this one; you think you have a better understanding of it than him? It’s just ifs and for loops.
Sure some contexts require real nuance. But just because Grubhub IS massive doesn’t mean it needs to be engineered that way, that’s a byproduct of socio-political forces (money).
There’s nothing in any science or engineering book I’ve read that says “all software must be engineered as a large distributed application”. Again, a byproduct of contemporary business goals.
My generative art object app is not sending people to the moon and merely relied on me wrapping some well understood math in machine language syntax; it’s librarian work.
Your preference for adverbs and emphasis where you see fit to place it does not move me.
Accomplish something net new for humans, cause I’ve been sending data grams over the internet since the 80s. Grubhub isn’t all that interesting
Take no one else seriously because they’re just projecting their own biological awareness, and since none of them matter, fuck em.
There’s billions of people on the planet that know nothing about computers. Let’s shut a lot off and see how valuable these folks are.
It’s a stupid contemporary con just like all the rest. Relying on the same biochemical addiction capacity as religion did before it.
I don’t believe in any of this shit (oh wow you can make a machine designed to do just that do just that! amazing). I just extract my $1xxk/year now and let less politically networked people bear the costs like a rich person.
PG’s four quadrants of conformism is stupid because everyone is a political conformist in the end. That’s the perimeter of our society. Annotating them with types a billionaire preferences is creepy grooming by a white old guy.