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On the contrary, the only people making a demand are developers who insist that their work does, or should, exist in a vacuum, outside of and independent of wha
by enraged_camel 6y ago
On the contrary, the only people making a demand are developers who insist that their work does, or should, exist in a vacuum, outside of and independent of what is going on in the world, i.e. politics.
Reality, however, is there, whether we would like it to be there or not.
Look, I get it: sometimes you just want to put your head down and focus on technical details, and let someone else worry about the context. But keeping your head buried in the sand all the time isn't the answer.
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- ljm 6y agoReality is also a lot larger and more complicated than the simplistic context a small slice of it is placed in, with everyone demanding their particular context is _the_ important one. We dumb down our reality all the time in order to fit it to our agenda, selectively picking and choosing the bits we like, and what else can we do in a world with over 7 billion conscious minds? My worry about your line of thinking, and the everything is political one, is that it feels a bit like eradicating diversity of thought and experience. To relate it to the start of this thread, plenty of the world outside the US will have so much of their own shit to deal with than the politics that are _important to you_ are not at all important to them. For anyone to suggest or demand or require otherwise would seem to be quite imperialistic to me.
- MaKey 6y ago> But keeping your head buried in the sand all the time isn't the answer. It isn't, but I can't see a benefit of dragging unrelated politics into software development, even though the topics might be important.
- bitwize 6y agoDeveloping software in ignorance of the surrounding social context is -- well, it's worse than writing a file picker and neglecting to add a thumbnail feature. I recommend you read about Allison Parrish's new hacker ethic: http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/ http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting... The core questions she proposes are essential things every software professional should ask themselves and keep in mind as they work. The political context, and which players in that context benefit from the work you do, is not unrelated at all.