7) If we were near enough for group-level statistical variations in sciencey-ness or whatever to be significant, *no-one would care*.
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8) I don't like the way US libs fight these battles. I worry about their fondness for shallow, authoritarian fixes. They're technocrats too.
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9) In other words, it sometimes looks like a fight between elitist, exclusionary geek culture and elitist, exclusionary US business culture.
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10) I want a better geek culture, not a geek culture gutted by and subordinated to a professional managerial class.
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11) Wanting that, means I have to make some commitment to realising a better geek culture, and not just snipe at the PMC, fun though that is
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12) So, grey tribers, my question to you is: what would a commitment from the "freak" corner to making things better actually look like?
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recognition that programming people and programming for people are hard and we retreat from them because we're bad at them, not superior
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a real push to stop underpaying and undervaluing tech support, bc tech support is the paradigm case of a "people skills job" that matters
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Testers can get a pretty raw deal too - in general we need to dethrone the "genius artist coder" and value the whole ecosystem.
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yeah, coders have totally embraced the Romantic auteur syndrome, it's a weird cultural cross-pollination
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every minute i spend doing the kind of work i love depends on a dozen ppl doing work i don't want to do, gee should i be snotty or grateful
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exactly. I find most of UI/UX design unbearably tedious but there's no way around the fact it's indispensible to the quality of the product
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lucky for me there are an excellent UI/UX folks out there who feel exactly the same about the stuff I thrive on
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