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There really doesn't seem to be anything new about the divide. The only thing that seems new to me is the resistance to the solutions.

In any case it may all just be a matter of time. The current Greek tragedy that's playing out looks to be the bellweather of how it will be dealt with.

Invoking a vague ideology as the root cause feels like a diversion in itself from the basic problem of rich people getting richer while the poor get poorer and more indebted. The obvious solutions, debt forgiveness and plain old money/land handouts are for some reason being resisted by the elite in favor of promoting some form of normativity, "this is the way things always were and should be" and leading us back to feudalism.

"Value" hides a lot of meanings. The quote seems to imply monetary value, whereas there can also be aesthetic value, emotional value, value due to fame/popularity and more. Seems unlikely that an app would strip out all the rest for merely highlighting the first.

Finally, some disruption amongst the management class. They have a long way to go in the race to the bottom.

I think one of the failures is that UX is designed by people who are comfortable with the abstract, we (usually) know about what is happening in the background, and can figure how action A leads to result B, but most people are just not good at this stuff. For them, the UX has to be way more concrete, since they just do not have a clear picture of what is going on.

This also leads to some tech anxiety, an example of which was an acquaintance not long ago being unable to save a missed call into her contacts list on a Samsung/Android and worried that she was somehow too dumb to use the (very costly) "smartphone". Just a huge collective failure of the "smartest" people around to account for other people who are very different.

Eye opening. Did not think it would be this bad even knowing the real estate and internet situation there.

The opposite point of view is that there are way less actual problems in the world, and thinking everything is a problem that should be 'solved' is a problem in itself and hides the realistic efforts we can make on the few actual problems in our power to deal with.

The constant drumbeat of 'we should all panic now' is not really helping anyone and seems to be mere attention seeking.

Why not just fork the language? Why does one language need to do all the things?

Scandinavian languages already have "programmering" for "computering" if you want to sound quaint.

Wasn't Google at one point all about commodity/consumer level hardware for their servers? Seems a huge turnaround.

The reason 90% of everything is crap is that these things like performance and quality are almost directly opposed to business interests/needs. That seems unlikely to change. And it is a good reason to bet on free and open source software.

Manager B would most likely be politicked out of his/her job.

Watching Game of Thrones recently, Brienne of Tarth gets really beaten up in the fight with the Hound. I do not recall having seen that level of prolonged physical action/violence on a woman in anything else before. Felt quite shocking to watch, even given the show's reputation.

>"like-minded people"

This particularly obnoxious phrase seems to be coming up a lot more these days. Maybe it is just people admitting they really do not want diversity except in looks rather than substance. It seems to reflect a lack of ability or desire to deal with real world conflicts of opinion.