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There is another point in a very similar vein - maybe a decade ago, Firefox was one of the jewels of open source. An example of how a group of volunteers could come together and assemble great software without hiding the source code and going for a quick buck.

Whatever Mozilla sees themselves as today, this language is clearly different from that original vision. Meritocracy is closely aligned to technical outcomes in a way that diversity and inclusiveness are not.

What I mean is, if your meritocracy fails to produce good software, obviously it is broken. If your ... inclusivocracy? ... fails to produce good software then it doesn't mean anything.

Obviously this language doesn't preclude the technical, but the focus has clearly shifted in the intervening years.
I can’t readily discern where you are going with this comment. Perhaps the point would have been better stated another way.
Spot on comment. I'm not religious but I believe that religion makes more good than harm in Poland. I've lived there for 5 years and peacefullness is remarkable.
It would require quite long devices to move.
Damn - really looking to buy one... only if the price was actually $35k - not $60k
Thanks for your reply! I asked because a couple years ago I started, but quickly quit, a Coursera optimization course.
How does the sales organization at your dealer sell the model of the future without trash-talking all the other gas-guzzling vehicles in the lot? How do you convince a dealer dependent on the revenue from servicing those engines to go against their self interest and sell something without that revenue stream?
I'm not the developer.
I have worked both remotely and in-office. In-office is good for collaborating on how to architect code, in the early days of a product. But as the organization matures, you have an established architecture, style, etc., and are adding or tweaking features. When you get to that point, remote work is excellent. You are able to slice off work to people who can sit in their corners and execute on those smaller pieces of the vision. They are not interrupted by others, they can both focus and relax as works best for them. It works. (And, FWIW, when we did major architecture work, we did fly into a shared location for a few days to hash things out together.)

That being said, people are all different - specific people may work better in one environment or the other. You may just personally fit in well in an office.
> The good thing about email is: * Everybody has it, *

This is not necessarily the case. For a considerable portion of humanity getting online these days, social networks are the internet for them and they might not use email at all. Even in places where email is a thing, many young people these days don’t have email unless and until they go to university.
True. Though hopefully their first language is a "gateway drug" toward more hardcore stuff!
"Meritocracy" is only tarnished by the very same people writing blogs like this. Don't be surprised if you spend years trashing a house then suddenly realize you don't want to live there anymore. Plenty of people will continue to use the word and try to live up to it's concept because they did not buy the FUD heaped on it (by the very people who now conveniently want to abandon it) in the first place.
Russia, Russia, Russia... right sentiment (PC, radical feminism and other SJW nonsense), wrong means to an end... causing more harm than good. Sad.
If anything, I would think that modern computers make it _harder_ to understand what's actually going on. I learned programming on a Commodore 64 - if you wanted to print a character on the screen, you wrote ("poked") a byte into a fixed memory address. If you wanted to read a character from the keyboard, you read ("peeked") a byte from a different fixed memory address. Being so close to the machine helped build an intuition about what was going on behind the scenes, so concepts like garbage collection and virtual memory made a lot more sense when I got around to learning them.
Sometimes your don't have the luxury to choose your work.
Get your dirty socialism out of here./s
This is the right way to think about it. Tech/Knowledge workers are pretty smart. There's no real "tricking" going on, which is part of what makes the problem so difficult to rout and insidious. If we were 'tricked' major economic and societal upheaval would be around the corner. But we're not tricked. We're willing participants.

There is a prevailing cynicism among the working man in that he recognizes (though often doesn't articulate) the compulsion to participate in the market that comes with capitalist systems. We already knew these companies were not shining paragons of ethical values—almost every participant in capitalism has known this since Industrialization. To focus on the consciousness of particular individuals or the false ethos of particular companies is to miss the real problem, which is systemic and lies at the roots in the capitalist mode of life and organization of resources. So long as you have capitalism you will have companies that make profit and market-survival an all-encompassing goal (whether or not they admit it) and complacent workers who are forced to support the Darwinian market game to have access to the means of subsistence. Capitalist logic is defined by its unbridled replacement of all other values (ethical, spiritual, etc.) with the value of exchange.
Vagrants in the tenderloin aren't dying of starvation, thirst, or exposure. They could have Dreamforce on the street in the tenderloin every month and it would have no effect on the conditions there.
I think he meant instead of an ipad.
How is this any different than a job at Big Tech in SF or NYC?
Swede here. I think this is because it's really, really hard to improve your quality of life in any meaningful way by just spending more money. Especially in the city.
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For me, this news brings "Atlas Shrugged" to mind more than "1984".
Or you could remove all possible reward, just so that there's no more incentive to do anything.

In a society where merit is rewarded perfectly, there's no incentive to do anything for all those who lack merit (i.e. the bottom 99%).
Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/1810/
For me, Wacom tablets or tablet-with-stylus kinds of devices.

Now it's not only a whiteboard, but I can take screenshots, collaborate with countless others, undo, search, zoom and pan infinitely, etc...

And they can be had for around $100 or less.
I think there's a lot of missing from the article. It's very basic while conversion rate optimization is a very difficult process as there are many small things involved. Of course, a lot depends on your product and website too
It's crazy how much people expect of Facebook compared to Google and Amazon, despite both of the latter companies either incorporating ads or gathering targeting information from Hangouts, Google Home, Alexa etc, or planning on doing so (Amazon planning on turning Alexa into an ads platform)[0].

[0](https://www.adweek.com/digital/why-brands-should-be-ready-fo...)
Using whiteboard and notepad features of the collaboration tool. Which are legible and visible to everyone all the time, not just if you're looking over somebody's shoulder
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We need honest cooperation and rational leadership, but we don't have those things. Good leaders wouldn't be doing all this business as usual, they'd be working hard to make everyone realize that change is coming, our previous way of life can't survive, and preparing us to change before we don't have a chance. Anyone sane can understand this if coached, but to many it's just a blip in the stream of usual garbage. There needs to be confrontation. Capitalism, consumerism, whatever else --our way of life is not more important than life itself.
Any thoughts of totally revamping the syntax of this declarative language? Perhaps borrow some inspiration from Ruby or some other humane english-like programming language?

What's the point in forcing non-coders to write "-> {}" multiple times for no reason?

As for Ruby, you can be like Matz and strive for happiness by minimizing syntax and maximizing readability.
Working on great products, great money (compared to local offers) while I don't have to restart my life in a new country.
Is this Hasura GraphQL Engine open source? What's the business model? Are there any features missing if you don't pay anything?

How does it get notified by PostgreSQL when the result of a query changes, since AFAIK PostgreSQL has no such built-in functionality? (it works if other apps change the database, right?)
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In my country, if a situation needs a calm de-escalation by professionals, we call the police. If someone needs shooting, we call the police. Somehow they manage both roles just fine.
According to a quick Google Maps check right now, my commute every day to school was ~20min by default, but probably closer to 40min in morning traffic. From the Bluff to Glenwood.

Granted private drivers aren't always a thing — but certainly driving from safe place to safe place is — whether it's driving yourself, being driven by family, or by a driver.
Yes, there are probably a lot of people who aren't fit to be police officers equipped with weapons. But how many civilians are in the US who aren't fit to have weapons and they still have them? And then the police officer has to deal with them.

Let's not take into account other work injuries OK? It would be similar to say, that cars can kill people, why don't we ban cars then?
It is their job to go to scenes where is high chance of being shot. You can't say that of a construction worker can you? Also they have safety measures which are getting better as we learn from mistakes. How does that even translate to the police? Every situation is different, every person acts different.
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It's not enough to approach this problem as a consumer. It's valiant but it's not going to bring about real change. We need heavy handed regulation of the environment by governments if we wish to actually prevent environmental devastation. Anything less is just rearranging deck chairs on the titanic.
Unfortunately conflicts are absolutely necessary for solving deep problems and if conflict is banned outright then what remains is shallow or polite conversation.

(Conflict does not mean malevolence)
Not "sew," it's not ripped clothing; "sow" as in the seeds of revolution.
> Every person, tech or not, should evaluate what their work is contributing to and they should evaluate if they can ethically and morally accept what the company is doing or standing for.

> In the end, I have to be able to look myself in the mirror and be accountable for my actions, even if that would mean to forego money, prestige, etc.

How would you like people to square this with providing for their families? No offense to coal miners or well operators, but I don't think they're willing to destitute their families over climate change -- what's a better world for their grandchildren if their children die starving in the miners arms?

More to the point, I think the problem is "we as a society", not the individual. We're not willing to give slight inconveniences for massive increases in energy efficency. Look at how we design our cities and communities. People drive 2+ton vehicles upwards of 2 hours each day to go to work instead of living closer to the office and biking or taking public transport. (Many first and second ring suburbs of many/most/all cities have decent (or better) school systems than in the exurbs.)

Do we really need to consume all of the plastic junk or waste nearly as much food as we do? Do we need to be so wasteful of energy in our homes? Do we need to keep stores and offices frozen in the dead of summer? There is a lot of really low hanging fruit (that people as a whole are unwilling to do because it's the slightest of inconvenience or expects them to acknowledge the world they live in), before we ask people to give up their jobs.

Do you think coal miners, well operators, or big box retail associates wouldn't want a safer or more fulfilling job? We need to look at our excess consumption before pointing fingers at people for taking a job we find dirty (in the moral sense.)
I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "celebrate Asian culture". Precisely because it's a barely meaningful agglomeration. Now if we examine the context in which "European culture" is celebrated... hm, yes I see.
Good to hear the docs are clear for someone who hasn't been "living it" for years.
I understand it's hard to put your trust into something Alan right now, so we're definitely looking at making more of it available without our direct involvement.

All I can say right now is that you should just give it a go, I bet it will change the way you look at code. If you do eventually want to build something critical on Alan, get in touch with us and we'll get the contracts set up to support that properly.
An EU propaganda website warning against alleged Kremlin propaganda? Oh, the irony.
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Of course, as always "the rich" are the real enemy here. Somehow.
I've started using "ferretocracy" to describe what actually exists in most places where "meritocracy" gets thrown around a lot. The idea of letting people succeed or fail according to merit instead of position is laudable, but (as crankylinuxuser already pointed out) the measurement of merit is problematic. A true meritocracy can only exist when the metrics for merit are both the right metrics and accurately measured, with all involved able and willing to keep it so. That's a bit like communism's reliance on altruism or laissez-faire capitalism's reliance on honesty. Things never work out that way. In reality, weasels always find ways to game the system. They exploit every flaw in how merit is defined or measured, who gets to define it, who is aided and who is isolated in their respective quests for merit, etc. Ultimately, the pursuit of "merit" veers off target. Focus on pure technical merit has to be balanced with consideration of other kinds, and with goals (e.g. diversity) that are not necessarily merit-maximizing.
Let's wait for European ratings. Model S did not excel at those.
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And here I thought I'd never have to read an article about something as silly as flipping the water bottle
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Google management gave too much freedom and independence to its techies and now they think they run the company.
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Columbus isn’t as high profile in U.S. schools as he was 30 years ago. It used to be a school holiday. No longer. That may have, at least partially, due to recognizing his negative role in regard to natives. It’s been a while so my memory in the matter is a bit fuzzy.
Completely true. And moreover, it is now acknowledged that the failure to stop the terrorist attacks in the recent years comes for a part from the RG having been nearly disbanded. They were far from being an agency which only spied on public figures, they were in fact a very important tool for gathering information at a local level, which was badly missed to have first hand intel on extremists. Their bad reputation came mostly from the 60s-70s when they were targeting a lot the labor unions who had connections with the Soviet Union.
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People really love the word addiction. It’s like a safety blanket that keeps you from having to feel responsible for your own behavior. There are sex addicts, porn addicts, and food addicts, among others.

More than likely there is just an underlying mental health issue with poor impulse control and behavioral manifestations.
Because there, you're _only_ competing with local SF/NYC applicants, within like 1h drive radius or whatever.
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I'm stronger in the first 2 areas. And less strong, but pretty interested still in the last 2.

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10 PRINT "Hello, World"
20 GOTO 10

Easy to understand and you can see the result right away. You don't complex languages or "playgrounds" to teach the basics of programming.
I suspect there are plenty of people working on nasty adtech still ...

Also, tech workers can often be replaced by others (e.g. Asians) who have different standards when offered the same salary.
> Meanwhile you'll agree that the consumer is indeed the most important part of any economic activity, and that they often have the most choice

I actually disagree. I think it's difficult to be a healthy vegetarian (let alone a vegan) if you're in rural or poorer areas, as the majority of the US and indeed the world are. Most people aren't choosing their diets, they're eating what they can, or succumbing to billions of dollars of advertising carefully crafted to hypnotize them into brand loyalty to corporations dependent on factory farming. It's a fundamental flaw in market-based thinking: consumers often don't have serious choices or the information or resources to make good ones.

It's also a convenient escape hatch for irresponsible corporations and corrupt governments. "Well we agree there's a problem, but we can't fix it without unethical market regulations".
‘M-Industries’?

Any relation to the defunct Microsoft Oslo/M-Language model-driven development platform?
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That’s the “What about her emails” of criticism.

If there is a valid criticism of Facebook, and another of Google, the appropriate response is, “Yes, and Google too.”

Let’s keep the focus on the bad actors, not on policing dissent.
As much as I like the idea. There seems to be a fair number of requirements. I don't particularly feel like installing an 'alan' server, or an 'alan' connector just to test out my application.

Is there any reason why 'alan run' couldn't do these things for me automatically and run it on my local host?
Really? I feel the risk has grown. Based on numerous cases, cops have realized that getting filmed killing an unarmed person pleading for their life barely impacts their career, much less their freedom.
I suppose you could point a webcam at the whiteboard, although there are a lot of options out there for online collaboration. We use MS stuff at work and multiple people can live-edit Word, One Note, etc. docs for example.
No matter how much training they receive, policemen are not going to be about to make psychological diagnoses in the heat of the moment. They need to know upfront that the person in question has schizophrenia so that they can apply appropriate behavior. (And that's the part of the training that needs improving, then.)
Remote team or not, their product is super slow.
It's subjective but I believe it. If remote work is set up well then there is much less emphasis on meetings and much more focus on good written communication. With remote teams distributed across timezones with their own work schedules, async communication is key and systems get developed to allow that. When it's part of daily work to ensure everything is designed and specced properly, communicated well, and there's mechanisms in place to keep the team in sync then it's much easier for management/product to also stay on top of what's happening without endless meetings.
You need to compare against cars in the same price class.
Step 1: Point out how horrible "meritocracy" is

Step 2: Bemoan that you need a new word for what meritocracy used to mean

Step 3: ??? (my guess is: rinse and repeat)
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I want to warn against this.

My biggest "issue" with remote working is always when there are differing amounts of remote work within teams.

When you have half the engineers in office, and half remote, the 2 sides end up with communication issues. In-office meetings where a few are remoted in are awful unless the company spends the money on a real remote-conference setup, having co-workers that don't like to pick up the phone and call the remote guy ends up keeping remote workers away from the problems.

I will never work at a remote company that isn't actively working on maintaining a remote workforce. Because even though I absolutely love remote work, it's not easy, even for those that are heavily invested in it.
I go into more detail on my blog about why zero-coupon bonds.

What do we spend it on? The first place is buying up all the fossil fuel and preventing it from being burnt. Paying off the owners of the fossil fuel is the essential step to removing the political opposition to doing something about climate change. Once that is tackled then we just have to scale out the technology we already have to generate energy that doesn't emit greenhouse gases.
Found it interesting, and likely a very good idea, that they have set ‘office hours’ which are the same for everyone globally. That might be very inconvenient if you’re in a locale where you wind up working nights, but it does give a level of predictability and ensures that everyone is available at a given time.
> I find it surprising that educated people are "just now" doing this.

Why? Even doctors have been doing nasty things for money (e.g. bribing by big pharma). And they have an official ethical code!
The most import thing that is not taught is deescalation.

It is vital for Police to take control of a situation but instead they general yell and shout increasing the tension between parties turning a controllable situation into chaos.

Many people to not respond well to threats and shouting.
>One of the most heinous weapons every deployed on Earth likely saved a net million-plus lives.

It's really an argument that can't be made because the other event never happened. The weapon killed people, that's it. I don't know if there's a moral side at all?
> For the over the decade I've been a software engineer I've always strived to work in products with a value proposition for the end user that I can understand.

> I can't understand how anyone could work without this understanding and not get their soul crushed. Maybe I'm just sensitive or underpaid.

Well, if someone's paying you, there is always a value proposition for the end user :)

More to what I think your point is, though, most people do not view themselves through the lens of their work. I don't see myself as a guy who writes ecommerce software; I see myself as a spouse, father, child, uncle, and someone always trying new things and expand my horizons. Ecommerce just pays the bills and enables that all to happen.