On 04/27/2018 06:29 AM, Chris wrote:
On Thursday, 26 April 2018 at 02:31:07 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)
wrote:
On 04/25/2018 05:49 AM, Chris wrote:
Well yea, all the hipster nerds say Google is God and Chrome is what
you should be using, so it must be so. ;)
At the very least, I just wish there was a good choice. Mozilla used
to be the Burger King of browsers ("Your way, right away."), but
they've spent the last decade hopping on silicon valley's "Our
developers matter more than our users" bandwagon, too. (The "Soup
Nazis" of software.)
Technology, science etc. are no exception to (natural) human behavior:
do as everybody else does, sure it's good. The problem is that
pragmatism ("I have to write in JS, if I want to write a web app") turns
into an ideology/relgion ("It's the best thing we have, if it wasn't,
we'd be using something else, wouldn't we?"). Rationalizing irrational
bs and irrationalizing the rational is a defense mechanism of humans.
Groupthink and tribalism (hippsters) are part of our DNA, sometimes it
makes sense, sometimes it's an obstacle.
That may be so, but a big part of being a participant in civilized
society, and far more than that, being a professional, means having the
basic will, ability and responsibility to utilize our higher-level
cognitive functions (which we've also evolved and are baked into our
genetics) to selectively override the baser instincts, and to discern
when and where it's appropriate to do so.
It's a basic responsibility of being human, and it's a fundamental
qualification of being a professional in a technical field.
