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by verisimilitudes 1397 days ago
I'll elaborate. Firstly, this may be a community of "professionals", but that term means something very different for programmers. No "professional" here is an engineer, as an example, because real engineers would be imprisoned and stripped of title for what the typical programmer does. The dominion to which I refer is the fact that many of these "professionals" work for large advertising corporations who encourage them to believe they know better than the people trying to do real work with a computer. They expect their tools to have a price, and then work on tools intended to never be sold, but be rented forever. They touch computers poorly, because out of one side of their mouths do they decry things such as Bitcoin and out of the other they excuse the extreme waste of their corporations and of asinine practices such as embedding an entire WWW browser solely to execute a chat program wastefully.

> about things they like and understand

They like politics and understand very little about being a hacker, certainly.
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orwin 1397 days ago
Why is this linked to the nature of UTF-8 and Unix? And since you're explaining your thoughts, are those nature the same or is each one a different facet of the programmer culture?

And lastly: do you honestly think most production or data engineers should be imprisoned or stripped of their titles?

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verisimilitudes 1396 days ago
>Why is this linked to the nature of UTF-8 and Unix?

Those are just another two sacred cows.

>And since you're explaining your thoughts, are those nature the same or is each one a different facet of the programmer culture?

UNIX and UTF-8 are alike because they were made by the same fools, and both made to avoid upsetting the delicate sensibilities of the disgusting C language. The nature of Hacker News is similar in its ignorance and wastefulness, but it's not a consequence of either.

>And lastly: do you honestly think most production or data engineers should be imprisoned or stripped of their titles?

Sure, probably; it's not as if their titles mean anything anyway.

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