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What does this imply for the following state (of mind), if it had basis in reality? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology https://en.m.wikip

• harimau777 4y ago
  I think that people confuse the tech-bro subculture with the wider developer subculture. My experience has been that the developer subculture is often more progressive than libertarian.
  • Jensson 4y ago
    The developer subculture is mostly pro meritocracy, so it isn't really modern progressive. Developers were progressive when meritocracy was progressive, but now they aren't.
    • badcppdev 4y ago
      I don't think the "developer subculture" is clearly bounded or uniform geographically. You state that the developer subculture has stayed with pro-meritocracy but I think it has changed. Where could we find a definition to check that we were referring to the same thing?
      • Jensson 4y ago
        From the internal forums at Google, from what I see online and have seen offline. Modern progressive anti-meritocracy people might be loud, but they are a small minority, even at Google at the height of progressivism there you would see pro-meritocracy views winning out strongly among developers. You also see it here, I feel most here on HN are pro meritocracy. There are some progressives around who go into every thread about the topic and post a lot, but meritocracy views and topics tend to get upvoted.