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The quote is from Dr. Alan Kay. I think he knew that when he said, it, and personally I think IQ is a racist, bullshit metric. But the general idea of the quote
by braythwayt 10y ago
The quote is from Dr. Alan Kay. I think he knew that when he said, it, and personally I think IQ is a racist, bullshit metric. But the general idea of the quote is still meaningful, and the thing I am saying when quoting it is that having gone mainstream, adopting Rails is no longer about adopting a new perspective.
It’s tautological: You don’t get a new perspective, or an advantage, by adopting the mainstream thing and using it the mainstream way with the mainstream best practices, carefully writing your code to be familiar to the mainstream programmers.
That’s not a bad thing, but it is a different thing from when Rails was first popping up in Reddit’s old days and HN’s early days.
- iqisracist 10y agoOh boy Numbers are racist now
- braythwayt 10y agoI really think you can do better to make constructive contributions to discourse on Hacker News. In that spirit, what I'll say is that no, numbers in and of themselves aren't racist, or biased, and neither are words, sentences, facts and so forth. But the way someone uses them can be racist, or biased, whether deliberately or systemically (which is where a system creates racist or biased outcomes, even though no one person is attempting to create a racist or biased outcome). http://braythwayt.com/2016/03/30/racism-is-injustice.html http://braythwayt.com/2016/03/30/racism-is-injustice.html