Ryan Streur > Recent Status Updates

The chapter "Mind the Gap" is all about why wealth inequality is really perfectly reasonable and acceptable. His concept of the sort of person who would reject wealth inequality, a rejection which he first refers to as the argument of a child, seems to be an obvious straw man. He is arguing against a person who says "everyone should have the same amount of money," when the real argument is less simplistic.

Graham continues to take positions which would be palatable to, if not directly referential to, Silicon Valley libertarians. More so far in his chapter, "How to Make Wealth. That doesn't make them wrong per se, but the objection to teleological rejection sounds kind of neck-beard-y to be.

First published at the dawn of the internet age in 2004, Hackers & Painters is an interesting read in 2016. It's a dramatic foreshadow of many of the perspectives and narratives which would define the culture of those who came to call the internet home. In particular I'm struck by the chapter "What You Can't Say." It seems like that chapter would read very differently had it been published after the election of 2016.

It's certainly interesting. Regarding the effective estimation of time described in Chapter 2 - Brooks takes his support from a place which seems as though it would be obviously true to either the experienced software manager or the truly gullible, but as someone new to the industry I don't think I have enough experience or information to evaluate the truth of his claims about scheduling.

Contracrostipunctus is delightful. I was skeptical about the dialogue thing at first, but now I'm convinced.

Take me now, George. I'm almost halfway through and I don't want this book to end.