> It sounds to me like this person is good at getting paid no matter how it goes for the shareholders or the rest of the team
The trouble is that your personal influence is remarkably small in most workplaces. Ultimately, you can't change much, and what you can change takes a lot of effort. It often requires being bullish, which can introduce risk to your job.
Sometimes, the choices are as follows: either have the big idea in mind and always strive for the best, sacrificing your mental health, making enemies, and potentially losing your job. Or, keeping your head down and following orders, being a perfect little sailor leading your ship towards the iceberg.
I don't think that you necessarily need lexical locality, rather you need specification. And interfaces are just an easy way to make a specification. The problem with "too much" lexical locality is that now you have to search DEEP into stacks to figure out what really going on.
The whole point of specifications is trying to extract the most requirements in the least amount of time. With more "top level" interfaces and tools like DI you can do that, but certainly you can take it too far. A single function, I'd say, is way too far.
I think historically in the US that's exactly how it's been done, and then we just clean it up later (or never). In the meantime a bunch of people get sick
I don't understand how this is the case. If anything, an interface is MUCH easier to understand than a variety of functions strung together.
I mean, this is the whole reason we have APIs. If I'm a consumer, I would much rather read and understand the API and its contract than try to read through the code to find out requirements.
There's pretty much no rules when it comes to making a game. Versus with an engine, you at least have some requirements and guidelines. It's gotta render stuff, do physics, etc. With a game you could literally do anything, and 99.99% of all stuff you can do probably sucks and isn't fun. So you have to really be willing to throw ideas away.
It is exactly that (basically), and there's numerous ethical arguments around credit score. But credit score was in a somewhat unique position, because what predated it was obvious racism, sexism, and other types of discrimination.
For both companies and consumers, it was a step up. Now, I'm not sure if that's the case.
Today there's still many legal and moral qualms about using credit score for job applicants. It's illegal in many areas and highly scrutinized if a company does this.
You can only have a stupid, ugly or wrong opinion so long as Musk shares it. Luckily Musk is uniquely dumb, so that covers most awful takes you can have, perhaps giving the perception of free speech.
I don't think this is necessarily the case. All the gyms I've been to have been majority men, like 80%+.
I think the "activities" part plays a role. I think a lot of men today struggle with socializing, especially with groups that have a good chunk of women. They feel like they don't belong and are acutely aware of how they can be perceived.
The gym, on the other hand, is a pretty isolated thing.
> Hookup culture just isn't for everyone, and the notion that it is has been the cause of a lot of grief and agony
I'm sorry, but how could you possibly think this is the case? Hookup culture is still very fringe, wildly looked down upon.
Humanity has had a purity culture for the past few hundred years. Sex has been a tool to oppress and shame. To this day, this purity culture continues. Women are slut shamed. Gay men are perceived as disgusting by proxy of their sexual inclinations. Kinks must never be spoken out loud.
Sex is still not talked about. We bead around the bush, play innuendos. Speaking directly about what you desire in the bedroom is almost unthinkable. Some married people endure years of subpar sex, when simple communication could fix it.
Where is this hookup culture? Because if I talk to 10 random people about my hookups, in even a very surface-level amount of detail, what responses would I get?
I get disgust, pearl-clutching. I am a whore, a slut, no cleaner than a pig and practically begging to get AIDS. In fact, AIDS might just be a good thing, to rid the world of immoral scum.
Do you see that same level of reaction to proclaims of marriage and romance? Because I don't. Not sure where you live, but if this is your definition of "hookup culture" and you truly believe it's been pushed on everyone... maybe I should move to wherever you are. But I've never seen or heard of such a place.
> continue to be transmitted from generation to generation
Yes, and no. Because the baseline moves. Progressives are ahead of the baseline, and conservatives behind it.
Conservatives of my day were anti-marriage equality. The ones before them were anti-gay in general. Before them, they were anti-integration. Before them anti-women's rights. Before them anti-suffrage. Before them anti-abolition.
The conservative stance gets pushed more and more forever with each passing generation. The overall idea stays - "maintain the status quo and conserve the days of old". But the days of old have changed.
In 100 years, conservatives of that day will be wildly different than the ones right now.
> political marketing that will mean nothing if they get into office
Just not true. As the person you replied to pointed out there are hundreds of bills restricting rights for Trans people, all from the right.
In my experience, the average republican is almost allergic to accountability. Yes, these things are happening. Yes, these policies DO represent you. And yes if you vote right you contributed to it.
If that bothers you, or others, it might be time to analyze your affiliations. But you should not simply lie or live in a delusion that nothing happens. No no... things happen. The culture war politics the right cherishes do come to fruition.
The trouble is that your personal influence is remarkably small in most workplaces. Ultimately, you can't change much, and what you can change takes a lot of effort. It often requires being bullish, which can introduce risk to your job.
Sometimes, the choices are as follows: either have the big idea in mind and always strive for the best, sacrificing your mental health, making enemies, and potentially losing your job. Or, keeping your head down and following orders, being a perfect little sailor leading your ship towards the iceberg.