We need to write code… You son of a bitch, I’m in.
🇺🇦 Ukrainian. #SoftwareEngineering and #TechnicalLeadership. I also write about #politics and hobbies.
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@iris_meredith If I'd focus on one aspect only.
I started to work in tech in 2000, IT crowd was in basements, away from real people, we were geeking out with a bunch of nerds, life was fun.
Fast-forward, and billionaires like Thiel and Brin telling employers that 60 hours a week is the "sweet spot" and Thiel wannabes tell me to "inspire" team to work 60h/week also leading by example.
New post, and this one's definitely one of my weirder ones: it's about how most of the tech industry shows symptoms of something that looks like gender dysphoria.
And now the punchline: this depersonalisation, the weird relationship to their bodily existence, inability to enjoy things and an internal void that people constantly try and fill with what they're told they should want... all of these things are very similar to the experience of gender dysphoria.
@iris_meredith fuck, this hits hard.
I would also include all the brilliant minds working hard on giving us depression from computers.
I saw a random comment on Reddit: ... many smart people tie their inherent value to their professional contribution. I can relate. AuDHD, I live and sleep in a constant mild to high strees, it takes high effort to not escape discomfort from the real world and inside my head. SwE allows it plus the validation that I exist. But this validation is my output.
@iris_meredith first of all, don't mix alcohol & acid. But also https://www.academia.edu/1128515/PSYCHEDELIC_AGENTS_IN_CREATIVE_PROBLEM_SOLVING
This is the downside of metaphor of course.
@gwynnion Can't you see past that? People keep saying anti-immigrant policies are bad. That's missing the point. They went after every minority at once, saw what gained traction, and leaned all in.
Currently, they kidnap, disappear, jail, and murder mainly immigrants. But in the future, any journalist, protester, or teacher will be labeled an 'immigrant' or 'supporter'—and face kidnapping, disappearance, jail, and murder.
"We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris."
Programming Perl (1st Edition) Authors: Larry Wall and Randal L. Schwartz Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Year: 1991
@MAKS23 "Russia will still be there tomorrow" is the kind of cowardice that has been dragging the war for so long.
Russia absolutely can and absolutely must be balkanized for Europe to prosper.
It won't happen of course until you won't start seriously discussing the possibilities and working for it.
@spdrnl protocols are irrelevant. People aren't.
These correlates, as companies starting to lose talents they usually make stupid protective moves fighting the symptoms.
Activity pub or not, this place is civil due to the work of moderators. It's not that AT proto (open protocol) has decided to platform Nazis. People have done this.
Iris
