"Whatever programmers think about themselves and these towering
logic-engines we’ve erected, we’re a lot more superstitious than we
realize. We tell and retell this collection of unsourced, inaccurate
stories about the nature of the world without ever doing the research
ourselves, and there’s no other word for that but “mythology”. Worse, by
obscuring the technical and social conditions that led humans to make
these technical and social decisions, by talking about the nature of
computing as we find it today as though it’s an inevitable consequence
of an immutable set of physical laws, we’re effectively denying any
responsibility for how we got here. And worse than that, by refusing to
dig into our history and understand the social and technical motivations
for those choices, by steadfastly refusing to investigate the difference
between a motive and a justification, we’re disavowing any agency we
might have over the shape of the future. We just keep mouthing
platitudes and pretending the way things are is nobody’s fault, and the
more history you learn and the more you look at the sad state of modern
computing the the more pathetic and irresponsible that sounds."
(source: http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2013/10/22/citation-needed/)
I think this speaks volumes for why people are so resistant to change,
even users... Leo does things just a bit *differently*, and people
ignore it or avoid it for fear of breaking these inalienable 'laws' they
subscribe to.
Or I could be comparing apples to dollhouses here.
-->Jake
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