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Warning - this article is in the academic literary genre in which you score points for name dropping, making "connections", asking "questions", and using as man

Warning - this article is in the academic literary genre in which you score points for name dropping, making "connections", asking "questions", and using as many words as possible. I was unable to find the point of the article. Sample: > ...we seek once again to “make visible the invisible,” to open the “black box,” while also, paradoxically, aestheticizing the wires and algorithms themselves. We have accelerated the cycles of making-visible and making-invisible that are so entangled with Western urban planning and its ideologies. How do we reconcile our competing aspirations for ordered knowledge about how the world works with our desire to believe in its magic?

beachstartup 10y ago
yeah, i hate this style of writing. it's designed to make people feel dumb, but if you're smart enough to actually parse the language, you realize they're not saying anything. also, they just draw the wrong conclusions. The Cloud is composed of multiple levels of code, and no one person can see, let alone interpret, the full stack. this isn't true. i've worked with a handful of people throughout my career that could tell you exactly how the entire thing works, from x86 registers all the way to javascript running in the browser and everything in between, including details of the content addressable memory on the layer 2 switches! certainly not literally everything that exists, but they understand the entire stack for sure. i suspect there are at least one of these types that exist at every 'cloud' company actually building products. i think to a lay person technology just seems impossible to fully understand because they do not understand even the most basic things. it's just projection.
- fleitz 10y ago
  I hear these people are called 'full stack developers' even. Though I wouldn't want to use the colonial methods of 'looking, collecting, and record-keeping.' I've heard that doing these things is how you understand systems from front to back. I wonder what will happen when she finds out about the master/slave relationship inherent in replicated datasets. Is Cassandra transgressing the boundaries of colonial data replication?
  - Kalium 10y ago
    Towards a transgressive hermaneutics of colonial replication in postmodern data storage?
type0 10y ago
A lot of fancy words indeed and no real meaning. I didn't read the whole thing, not sure what it was about or what she was smoking.

beachstartup 10y ago

yeah, i hate this style of writing. it's designed to make people feel dumb, but if you're smart enough to actually parse the language, you realize they're not saying anything. also, they just draw the wrong conclusions. The Cloud is composed of multiple levels of code, and no one person can see, let alone interpret, the full stack. this isn't true. i've worked with a handful of people throughout my career that could tell you exactly how the entire thing works, from x86 registers all the way to javascript running in the browser and everything in between, including details of the content addressable memory on the layer 2 switches! certainly not literally everything that exists, but they understand the entire stack for sure. i suspect there are at least one of these types that exist at every 'cloud' company actually building products. i think to a lay person technology just seems impossible to fully understand because they do not understand even the most basic things. it's just projection.

fleitz 10y ago
I hear these people are called 'full stack developers' even. Though I wouldn't want to use the colonial methods of 'looking, collecting, and record-keeping.' I've heard that doing these things is how you understand systems from front to back. I wonder what will happen when she finds out about the master/slave relationship inherent in replicated datasets. Is Cassandra transgressing the boundaries of colonial data replication?
- Kalium 10y ago
  Towards a transgressive hermaneutics of colonial replication in postmodern data storage?

type0 10y ago

A lot of fancy words indeed and no real meaning. I didn't read the whole thing, not sure what it was about or what she was smoking.