Angry Developers

Over the last decade of independent and open sourced development I have noticed a number of times that the most respected developers tend to be right, and that they tend to be dicks, outright. It has disgusted me at times, to the point that I was inspired to write nearly 50 tutorials and walkthroughs of code based systems. In my eyes, the separation between mediocre and great developers was that they would be able to get along with others. Was I wrong?

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Fredrick Engels on the Role of Technology today

Fredrick Engels’ expansions upon the views of Marx drive to the brink of prophecy. He builds his views upon the concept that production and distribution methods are the bringer of social change. He believed that technological advancement would be the death knell to the working class, arguing that as social groups have evolved from the feudal age into the current capitalist age lines of delineation can be drawn at technological epoch’s, moving closer and closer to socialism. At this stage, the capitalist mode of production has reared its ugly head, as is illustrated by our 2001 dot com bubble bursting, and the current stagnation of economies around the world.

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