Google search is no longer up to the task of making it quick on a mobile phone to find this, but the first time I read it out well was on Steve Yegge’s OG blog. I’m paraphrasing here but he basically made the point that spending your life mastering software doesn’t leave much scope for horizontal career mobility, and that getting heavily wired into a given programming language or operating system or whatever makes it existential to see it succeed. If I talk shit about a certain programming language here it’ll mobbed by people who owe their paycheck to its adoption in under an hour, please don’t make me prove that.
I appreciate that I elided a lot of the conjectures on the way from “Drepper wants static glibc not to work” to “mafia capitalist RICO shit is the upstream cause”.
Scandal-ridden mafia capitalist shit is the upstream problem.
I appreciate that I elided a lot of the conjectures on the way from “Drepper wants static glibc not to work” to “mafia capitalist RICO shit is the upstream cause”.
Scandal-ridden mafia capitalist shit is the upstream problem.