<story><title>Where have all the hackers gone?</title><url>https://morepablo.com/2023/05/where-have-all-the-hackers-gone.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drones</author><text>I think the author of this article grossly misunderstood the purpose of his interaction which lead to this article.&lt;p&gt;You aren&amp;#x27;t architecting a new programming language, man, you&amp;#x27;re talking to a guy about computers because you&amp;#x27;re wearing a shirt of a computer thing he liked. He wanted to talk to you because he had a mutual passion he wanted to share, and you  openly challenged him in front of other people. Sorry, you were a shitty friend.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rickboyce</author><text>The description of this interaction in the article makes me sad for the author - they criticise and belittle another. Imagine instead what they could have learnt if they opened themselves up to another persons perspective.&lt;p&gt;It’s notable how little this article actually discusses the delivery of any form of value. The tech is not the end in itself, it’s a means to an end - and we live in an age with so many well matured and valid options that for many of the problems we seek to solve what tech we use isn’t necessarily a critical decision.&lt;p&gt;The author answers their own question - where have the hackers gone? We are getting on with it and building stuff. This kind of language flame war stuff just isn’t as important as it once (debatably) was. It’s a dying trope.&lt;p&gt;Thinking on the initial mistake our author made - framing the conversation rigidly through their own frame of reference - I’ve personally found Matthew Syed’s work on cognitive diversity helpful in understanding and addressing this. [1]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;graphic-designer-richmond.co.uk&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;business-book-review-rebel-ideas-matthew-syed&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;graphic-designer-richmond.co.uk&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;business-boo...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Where have all the hackers gone?</title><url>https://morepablo.com/2023/05/where-have-all-the-hackers-gone.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drones</author><text>I think the author of this article grossly misunderstood the purpose of his interaction which lead to this article.&lt;p&gt;You aren&amp;#x27;t architecting a new programming language, man, you&amp;#x27;re talking to a guy about computers because you&amp;#x27;re wearing a shirt of a computer thing he liked. He wanted to talk to you because he had a mutual passion he wanted to share, and you  openly challenged him in front of other people. Sorry, you were a shitty friend.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0xbadcafebee</author><text>You don&amp;#x27;t know what the other person really wanted or thought - and neither did the author, apparently. The breakdown in communication here is that you, and the author, had certain expectations, assumptions, and unknown information, and you both made conclusions based on all that variable, unknowable, uncommunicated stuff.&lt;p&gt;Rather than assume what&amp;#x27;s going on in the other person&amp;#x27;s head, ask them. Assume good faith until evidence to the contrary. It allows less judgement and negativity, which leads to more fruitful conversation.</text></comment>