>In the end I ended up cured of most forms of political fundamentalism. Yes! The only cure to social issues is applied intelligence. We should treat governing, policy, economy, and social norms with experimental elbow…
I don't like Ayn Rand either and I think libertarians are complete morons. I'm a socialist. I just think anyone who would consent to such unfair job conditions must be an idiot.
I'm not a libertarian. I'm a socialist. But I understand your frustration with Ayn Randists.
Wouldn't a smart student realize that they can't trust their Professors? If you can't spot a dishonest salespitch from an academic, doesn't that make you gullible? Smart people make decisions based on evidence. Gullible…
My thesis is that people who are this naive and manipulable are not actually that smart. But I do get your point and have lived it and seen it first hand. Having said that.. I truly believe that academia is now…
Would your smartest citizens really make such dumb life choices? My professors pushed me so hard to get on the grad school track. I was too smart to do something so stupid. Professors are no longer the smartest people…
You're reading way too far into it... I never said greybeards are "mean", I said they are influential. Greybeards are more influential on Zuck than vice versa when it comes to technology choice. That's why Zuck chose…
I'm not contradicting your observations. I'm pointing out a sociological fact. You do not know the definition of lower middle class. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_middle_class…
Millenials do not have a choice between "elite social status" and "comfortable middle class". They have a choice between middle class and lower class. What you are calling elite is actually just middle class. Millenials…
Linus' beard maybe isn't yet long enough to count as "grey" but, in any case, he's not a millenial. He entered the field circa 1990, whereas this self-proclaimed greybeard author started in 1995. So for the discussion…
As a millenial who is very familiar with capitalist exploitation of myself and my peers, I am 100% in favor of unionization, regulation, and association. It's the boomer and Gen X tech people that I talk to who are the…
Zuckerberg dances to the tune of the greybeards just as I do. Did Zuckerberg code the backend of facebook? Hell no. He hired people to do it. What programming technologies did those people use? Styles and methods passed…
Linus is 45 years old. He's not a millenial, he's a greybeard. Zuckerberg never made any technological advances. His company was a market success but it was based on LAMP... nothing technologically novel about it. Not…
Blaming this on millenials rather than the training they receive by employers and professors is insane. I would love to dig down into every nuance and detail. I don't have time for that because I'm working 60 hour weeks…
Young people, new programmers, and other groups who have no power are not responsible for the nature of a field. Old people control the nature of every field. Old greybeards are the ones who made computer science this…
It's insane to think that the least powerful members of a field are the ones controlling it. Is the medical field controlled by medical students, or by 60 year old medical authorities? Is chemical engineering controlled…
So to summarize... a man born into privilege is annoyed by poor people. The guy equates working for a paycheck with entitlement... how out of touch can you be? Working for a paycheck is something you do out of economic…
>In the end I ended up cured of most forms of political fundamentalism. Yes! The only cure to social issues is applied intelligence. We should treat governing, policy, economy, and social norms with experimental elbow…
I don't like Ayn Rand either and I think libertarians are complete morons. I'm a socialist. I just think anyone who would consent to such unfair job conditions must be an idiot.
I'm not a libertarian. I'm a socialist. But I understand your frustration with Ayn Randists.
Wouldn't a smart student realize that they can't trust their Professors? If you can't spot a dishonest salespitch from an academic, doesn't that make you gullible? Smart people make decisions based on evidence. Gullible…
My thesis is that people who are this naive and manipulable are not actually that smart. But I do get your point and have lived it and seen it first hand. Having said that.. I truly believe that academia is now…
Would your smartest citizens really make such dumb life choices? My professors pushed me so hard to get on the grad school track. I was too smart to do something so stupid. Professors are no longer the smartest people…
You're reading way too far into it... I never said greybeards are "mean", I said they are influential. Greybeards are more influential on Zuck than vice versa when it comes to technology choice. That's why Zuck chose…
I'm not contradicting your observations. I'm pointing out a sociological fact. You do not know the definition of lower middle class. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_middle_class…
Millenials do not have a choice between "elite social status" and "comfortable middle class". They have a choice between middle class and lower class. What you are calling elite is actually just middle class. Millenials…
Linus' beard maybe isn't yet long enough to count as "grey" but, in any case, he's not a millenial. He entered the field circa 1990, whereas this self-proclaimed greybeard author started in 1995. So for the discussion…
As a millenial who is very familiar with capitalist exploitation of myself and my peers, I am 100% in favor of unionization, regulation, and association. It's the boomer and Gen X tech people that I talk to who are the…
Zuckerberg dances to the tune of the greybeards just as I do. Did Zuckerberg code the backend of facebook? Hell no. He hired people to do it. What programming technologies did those people use? Styles and methods passed…
Linus is 45 years old. He's not a millenial, he's a greybeard. Zuckerberg never made any technological advances. His company was a market success but it was based on LAMP... nothing technologically novel about it. Not…
Blaming this on millenials rather than the training they receive by employers and professors is insane. I would love to dig down into every nuance and detail. I don't have time for that because I'm working 60 hour weeks…
Young people, new programmers, and other groups who have no power are not responsible for the nature of a field. Old people control the nature of every field. Old greybeards are the ones who made computer science this…
It's insane to think that the least powerful members of a field are the ones controlling it. Is the medical field controlled by medical students, or by 60 year old medical authorities? Is chemical engineering controlled…
So to summarize... a man born into privilege is annoyed by poor people. The guy equates working for a paycheck with entitlement... how out of touch can you be? Working for a paycheck is something you do out of economic…