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Surprising considering that almost none of these terms even existed 20 years ago.
Also some programmers are highly optimized for certain things to the point that they're terrible at everything else - I know programmers who are really great when it comes to writing performant code, but they are unwilling to make compromises to make that code more readable.
If you understand human behavior, then you know that this WILL happen eventually.
There is no doubt that this change is designed to take power away from some entities and to put it in the hands of a few key players which Google trusts.
Also, the video created by the author is highly deceptive; the author makes it look like he has hacked the website itself; in reality, he has only intercepted the traffic to his own machine so in reality he has only modified his own view of the website; he hasn't actually hacked anything. I'm sure that the author is being intentionally deceptive; he knows exactly who the target audience for that video is and he knows exactly what it looks like.
Doesn't that in itself reduce the credibility of all laws? Maybe the real problem is that the justice system is not doing its job properly.
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I think this hits at the crux of the issue around the performance/behaviour of Musk and other leaders of hugely ambitious companies.
And I think it highlights the importance of thinking about what kinds of people it will take to lead the next generation of such companies, and how we can identify and develop them.
I've never been any kind of Musk fanboy, and like most people I've looked on at his recent behaviour with some combination of bemusement and astonishment.
But when I see the hate and vitriol heaped on him, I'm compelled to wonder just what kind of alternative universe people are wishing for.
Do we actually want Tesla and SpaceX to fail?
Would we rather that Musk had just never founded Tesla and SpaceX, that the world didn't have any companies doing what those companies are trying to do, and that we were left to be content with the previous status quo in the automotive and space industries?
If not, then it would surely be better for the conversation to be less about how crazy or unstable or reckless Musk is, and more about how he and other leaders of today and of the future can pursue their ambitious goals, but to do so in a way that is responsible and balanced.
The alternative is not some as-yet-unknown-person-other-than-Musk doing the same thing but doing it better.
The number of people who are capable of building and running companies like these is vanishingly small and they will inevitably have extreme personality traits - some positive and some negative.
My concern is not for Musk's feelings, but for the way society goes about choosing, developing and critiquing the next generation of ambitious leaders, of whom we'll need plenty more if the world's increasingly complex problems are to be solved.
I should add that this applies whether we're talking about corporate leaders or political/community leaders.
One of the things I learned is that you should never offer even one tiny ounce of added value which the average user is not capable of perceiving.
Literally the entire idea of profit rests on arbitraging between perception and reality. You don't want to pay for surplus value that is beyond your customer's perceptive capabilities.