Engineer Syndrome. You get mildly good enough at writing Javascript to sell a product and then assume that means you can fix all of society’s problems
Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not his first time having a public melty over woke themes. What is it about tech CEOs and advanced brain rot? Are they getting too high on their own products?
shortrounddev@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bzdalderon@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
The irony in this statement is deafening.
sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Are they getting too high on their own products?
Yes and they literally have turned the idea of Admin Rights into the Divine Right of Kings.
“I know how to be an admin, thus I should lead the fucking world.”
When Cisco helped roll out The Great Firewall of China, they made great pains to explain that all they were actually doing was setting up the hardware and software to do what they were already designed to do. Computers and computer networks were never designed to be democratic in nature at all. Now that computers run the world, these jabronis think they deserve to be the Kings of it all.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
these jabronis think they deserve to be the Kings of it all.
And are perfectly willing and sometimes even capable to burn the world down for the position
spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
“Better to be king of the ash pile than have to listen to Tom in accounting talk about his goddamned shitheap of a boat again on Monday.”
LWD@lemm.ee 1 year ago
[deleted]grue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Andreessen had fuck-all to do with Firefox. He had worked on Netscape Navigator (which changed names several times over the years and is now known as SeaMonkey), but he had left Mozilla years before Firefox, which was a from-scratch rewrite, became a thing.
vga@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I don’t think it’s complicated. People are in cliques, and social contagion is real.