Readit NewsNot to get into politics too much, but surely that is a bit different. EU right wing populism and conservative raise had been slowly happening for some 15-20 years. US for 14 months.
Trump was elected in 2016, the Snowden leaks are from 2013. These processes have been going on for a while, and those aren't the earliest indicators.
Unfortunately communities tend to be endangered species these days. Perhaps this issue and other seismic societal shifts will change that.
Becoming more politically active has been a massive source of community for me. And if community is already endangered (which isn't something I disagree with, by the way - so many people are inadequately supported), that's all the more reason we should find and build it.
The question is: will and or when will the response to this violence exceed levels which can be controlled by the same mechanisms?
I believe there is a window here, where in most countries experiencing this shift, there are still many individuals who have the power to effect change if they accept the risk. This won't be the case forever - at some point it will be few, not many.
Community is important; look after it.
etherus commented on Audio is the one area small labs are winning amplifypartners.com/blog-... · Posted by u/rocauc
They're focused on soaking up big money first.
They'll optimize down the stack once they've sucked all the oxygen out of the room.
Little players won't be able to grow through the ceiling the giants create.
Why would they do that? Once they have their win-condition, there's no reason to innovate. Only to reduce the costs of existing solutions. I expect that unless voice becomes a parameter which drives competition and first-choice for adoption, it will never become a focus of the frontier orgs. Which is curious to me, as almost the opposite of how I'm reading your comment.
etherus commented on A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived thetimes.com/culture/book... · Posted by u/Thevet
Sciascia, btw, is one of the biggest thinkers and writers of '900. It is not really defined by his mafia-related novels and takes. He used to be friend with Borges, and was regarded as one of the top men in humanistic culture. Disclaimer: I was born in a town (Campobello di Licata) near his town (Racalmuto), but I'm not saying this because of this fact.
If you never read Sciascia, I suggest you starting from his last, tiny novel: "Una storia semplice". I believe there are English translations that can be found around as ebook or used on eBay.
As an aside, do you use dvorak as your keyboard layout? The ' for 1 typo is quite rare with qwerty, but I could see you meaning '1900s, though that becomes two characters in a short space.
Thanks for the recommendation!
etherus commented on Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015) jsomers.net/blog/speed-ma... · Posted by u/bschne
The article fails to explore that accomplishing more is orthogonal to working quickly. That distinction is the greatest difference between typical developers and top tier developers.
More still is that most developers fail to measure things and thus are incapable of distinguishing between faster work versus increased accomplishment. As a result many developers strive to accomplish tasks more frequently without ever recognizing that perhaps many of those efforts are completely unnecessary.
I think, unfortunately, this is something which requires the development of good taste: the ability to distinguish good abstractions and clean implementations in advance of their creation, to direct it. There is little replacement of experience in this endeavour, and most time people spend learning to do software engineering pays no attention to it.
Intentional analysis of existing projects and developing your own new things is incredibly helpful for this, and the sort of development we recognise in the workplace we may recognise but fail to prioritise and reward appropriately.
Seriously, do you only befriend perfect people?