Yes, "Late Stage Capitalism" the idea from the text written in 1902 by Werner Sombart.
The real comical part is we have almost been in the "late stage" as long as the time between Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and the generation of this stupid idea.
every day i talk to many Venezuelans who are currently living there and also living here working low level jobs… they all say they want him gone. they seem to think that it will solve their problems with running water, poverty and so on. i always silently think that it wont
In most non-IT corporations, the managers are non-technical and most are idiots these days. It comes from the MBA hires getting in management roles where they don't understand the area, what Steve Jobs calls "bozos" in his interview (available online).
On the other hand, if you want to lead a bunch of engineers, you should know their work very well, otherwise you will have unrealistic ideas about what can get done and how they should do it.
Is this really true that you need managers to understand the domain deeply to manage?
You could argue that a manager should have domain experts they can trust in their team to get estimates about time and complexity.
To really build great software, you need time and space to git your head around the problem. This is obviously not possible if you're spending most of your week in meetings and tracking the work of 7 or 8 team members.
In my experience, you can be a great IC *or* a great tech lead, but you cannot be both at the same time.
A person might very well be suited for both IC or team lead, there is no conflict in the skills themselves. But as you say, actually trying to apply them both simultaneously in practice could lead to conflicts.
Might work for some projects. For really complex projects (which is what I typically work on), strong engineering helps and so a lead-by-example approach tends to work out and it helps to motivate the team.
Also, I can give my team members detailed feedback. I think they take my constructive criticisms more seriously if I also give them praise which is detailed and accurate. You need a hands-on technical person to really understand people's strengths and weaknesses in a concrete way. Being hands-on also makes you more approachable; people will tell you things that they wouldn't tell a non-technical manager.
Being a good leader is partially out of your control. The people under you need to respect you as a leader. Working with them and showing your technical skills can gain their respect
Honestly I’ve seen plenty of folks get promoted to “team lead” because they aren’t as productive with the actual coding. Someone needs to focus on the non-technical project tasks, so the boss picks the least productive team member to move to that role. Calling it a “team lead” makes it more appealing than calling it “worst coder”.
I would argue that the two skills are necessary but not sufficient. If you’re lacking in the core skill, what exactly are you leading? If you’re a great coder and socially inept, good luck leading.
I thought you could compile from source and run Signal server instances, but there is no federation, so you would need a client that points to your server and you could only talk to other people using that client.
"Everyone" can reasonably be understood to only apply to "people/animals like those present here"
If we're pedantic on the phrasing, the wolf could have already satisfied the demand by keeping a meat-based diet that simply excluded hedgehogs. Then he wouldn't eat everyone, just those who aren't a hedgehog. But the spirit of the complaint was clearly "everyone here is running away because they are personally afraid of being eaten". Which only included mammals and maybe some birds
irony: the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite
> they claim to want to liberate the working class when they were never part of it
that is not irony.
Do you believe only working class people can improve the situation for working class people? That seems counter-intuitive to me, as people outside the working class usually have more time and education to think about changes and advocate for them.
Oh it's irony alright. I've encountered many such folk. They claim to mean well but barely know what to deal with a real live proletarian when they encounter one.
What was it the Who once sang, "meet the new boss, same as the old boss"? I don't think he has ever been much out of privileged circles.
The way ordinary people's lives can improve is self-advocacy and self-determination. You're not going to find that from Cambridge University where he teaches (one of the snobbiest and class ridden institutions in the UK which often resembles Hogwarts more than a modern university), the World Economic Forum (which prefers closed meetings to public ones and is furtive about its aims), or anything like that.
In this article he is right to voice concern about Big Tech oligarchy. But his analysis is off and he is not aware of what it really means to millions of people.
It skews his view of the entire situation in ways he isn't even aware of. In this case, he talks about feudalism, and it's arguable if that's where we're headed at all. Feudalism requires the peasantry to provide something useful to the overlords, which will not be the case when low paid jobs are automated.
Yes tried that. Getting a new government was a bit tricky and work policy doesnt allow personal VPNs, so was just letting OP know that if they choose to use Imgur then a large chunk of the readers wont know what they are talking about.
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