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Maybe they were just writing a lot of `AbstractHitlerBeanFactoryBuilder` classes.

• toyg 6y ago
  On a more serious note, there is an argument for all computing being fundamentally authoritarian. You have one root account dictating how other users can consume resources, and from that you descend onto things like "the project owner". If this model is not tempered downstream, I can see how people can end up shouting "nazi" at each other. (still, I guess one should probably catch himself before violating Godwin's Law in a work environment...)
  • pjc50 6y ago
    RMS was anti-root (or anti-"wheel", I can't remember) for basically this reason. There certainly is a lot to be analyzed in the power relations of control of the means of production and distribution of information, from the society wide scale to the individual device, but technologists are remarkably bad at doing this.
    • pestaa 6y ago
      But also why conflate the arrangement of performance sensitive digital procedures and the social structure behind several billion people living on the same planet? You should optimize for very different metrics.
      • toyg 6y ago
        Because it incentivises a specific mindset, which then cascades into everyday situations. Computers do what they are told (by root), other humans don’t do that - it can be a source of friction and frustration. A frightening amount of radicalised terrorists eventually turn out to be IT people... IMHO we don’t yet appreciate the influence that the tools we live and breathe have on ourselves.