Asset bubbles always create an unholy mess when they burst, but in this case the kind of people will lead the fallout from it are going to exacerbate the problems.
A toxic mixture of naive technolibertarians, money launderers, and far right extremists have all stumbled into the same bubble at the same time, and when that cesspool burst open, everyone is getting covered in it.
There's a remarkable amount of entitlement in that article.
Spoiler alert: lots and lots of hard-working, promising startups don't become unicorns. Lots just die, many just slowly stagnate, a few achieve a decent niche and are perfectly happy with it. There's no automatic entitlement to be a Buzzfeed just because you worked hard and were there at the start.
You know there was that recent Stackoverflow analysis that concluded that Perl was the most disliked programming language?
It got me to thinking about how Perl managed to become quite so profoundly disliked, and I remembered these papers and thought that maybe things like this are the reason.
Silicon Valley, in particular, has always seemed to me to fetishise the pseudo-legendary brilliant young school leaver overachiever superstar. Anyone who hasn't burned out by the time they hit 40 is clearly either lazy or an underachiever, and therefore not the sort of person we would want to hire.
The Valley's most cherished myths are amongst some of the most societally detrimental.
(Disclosure: I'm 40 and work in tech. This sort of thing gives me waking nightmares.)
The edge gestures for switching apps aren’t new, they’ve been on the iPad for some time. The swipe up to app switch/go home is the only new gesture. Anyway my point stands: the home button was a massively overloaded bit of UI and no serious UX person would defend that.
Yes, the people of Earth could never grasp the awesome complexity of a new edge gesture.
Of course the home button was such a simple UX though:
* Press place your finger on it to use Touch ID
* Press once to go the home screen
* Press twice when unlocked to bring up task switching
* Press lock button then press twice to initiate Apple Pay
* Press and hold to talk to Siri
* Press at the same time as the lock button and then release to take a screenshot
Yeah, it was such a SIMPLE bit of UX. If you’re a UX expert arguing for the supremacy of a verb with at least six overloaded meanings, imho you’re UX charlatan.
I always forget how much the enlightened community of Hacker News loves to downvote comments drawing attention to the heavily young white privileged male-centric hiring policies of many tech companies.
Honestly, you'd think I'd learn, that this community does not like to be reminded quite how regressive our gender, class and racial politics looks to the outside world.
Vagrant's documentation leaves something to be desired. It's perfectly possible to control many VMs from one Vagrantfile, but good luck figuring out how from the docs.
I mean with a bit of ruby knowhow and some digging you can figure most stuff out, but Vagrant's documentation still lags behind Hashicorp's other stuff which is usually very well documented.
I know so many developers who are going to love it.