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Everybody, in every field of work or hobby, insists that the public needs to understand and connect with it better. If every part of your life got the attentio

by Pxtl 5y ago

Everybody, in every field of work or hobby, insists that the public needs to understand and connect with it better. If every part of your life got the attention it supposedly deserves, it would be a full time job, and I've already got one of those. I'm a vegetarian because I wanted to be more ethical about food in the laziest way possible. So I'm the target audience for "thinking about ethical food". But no, I will not be participating in Jack squat.

6keZbCECT2uB 5y ago
I agree with you that it's arrogant for someone in a specialty to expect everyone else to invest into their specialty. I see this all the time from business initiatives saying that we need to integrate time tracking into the culture to make one teams job easier, everyone should learn security, accessibility, performance, compliance, internationalization. We should design for all of these things from the start and also deliver an MVP by the date that the sales person sold it for. If software forced all instances of object lifetimes which weren't a tree with unique owners to be painfully against the grain, then you'd make a good deal of progress. If your primitives acted on whole data structures rather than individual elements, you'd made a good deal of progress. E.g. 1. Partition this set of http requests by method. 2. What capabilities are available to this group of credentials? 3. Give me the set of k different fields which have the newest timestamp on their relevant keys but aren't in this blacklist. If we made our password requirements to start with not being crackable with some basic software, you might not need rotation policies and strength requirements. The easy answer is to say that everyone should participate and that many hands make light work. And it's tempting because performance certainly can hit a state where you have to make an architectural change to meet your requirements. (Presumably for other specialties as well) Having an expert do it also doesn't work because that can be adversarial.
benrbray 5y ago
It doesn't need to go that far, necessarily. Sometimes I get really into reading about a certain topic for a month or two, joining hobby forums, etc. to the extent that I feel "connected" to it for a long time afterwards. Suddenly I start noticing articles, videos, etc. about the topic that I wouldn't have clicked on before, and thinking about how it relates to my life. I think, in an ideal world, we'd all have the time and interest to go on several of these short-term deep-dives per year. And ideally, local communities would serve as a funnel to get people engaged in a meaningful but time-efficient way.

by Pxtl 5y ago

6keZbCECT2uB 5y ago

I agree with you that it's arrogant for someone in a specialty to expect everyone else to invest into their specialty. I see this all the time from business initiatives saying that we need to integrate time tracking into the culture to make one teams job easier, everyone should learn security, accessibility, performance, compliance, internationalization. We should design for all of these things from the start and also deliver an MVP by the date that the sales person sold it for. If software forced all instances of object lifetimes which weren't a tree with unique owners to be painfully against the grain, then you'd make a good deal of progress. If your primitives acted on whole data structures rather than individual elements, you'd made a good deal of progress. E.g. 1. Partition this set of http requests by method. 2. What capabilities are available to this group of credentials? 3. Give me the set of k different fields which have the newest timestamp on their relevant keys but aren't in this blacklist. If we made our password requirements to start with not being crackable with some basic software, you might not need rotation policies and strength requirements. The easy answer is to say that everyone should participate and that many hands make light work. And it's tempting because performance certainly can hit a state where you have to make an architectural change to meet your requirements. (Presumably for other specialties as well) Having an expert do it also doesn't work because that can be adversarial.

benrbray 5y ago

It doesn't need to go that far, necessarily. Sometimes I get really into reading about a certain topic for a month or two, joining hobby forums, etc. to the extent that I feel "connected" to it for a long time afterwards. Suddenly I start noticing articles, videos, etc. about the topic that I wouldn't have clicked on before, and thinking about how it relates to my life. I think, in an ideal world, we'd all have the time and interest to go on several of these short-term deep-dives per year. And ideally, local communities would serve as a funnel to get people engaged in a meaningful but time-efficient way.