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I wonder the same thing about them.

But, really, this talk of "elites" tends to put me on edge, because a lot of times it's really about who you define as the elite. I came of age politically at the time when anybody to the left of Rush Limbaugh was an effete "latte liberal", and the word "elite" basically referred to anyone who had a college degree and saw through the insane rhetoric of the time. Who you call "elite" becomes part of your agenda, essentially.

Of course, if you like it by all means continue using it. But if you think it has anything to do with your talent as an engineer, you are wrong. And if you see other engineers not using it and think it implies anything about their talent, you are wrong.

Side note: if anyone wrote in such a breathless tone about Apple, they would be skewered as a fanboy and a drinker of the Kool-Aid.

But, now I know better.

YES. That is exactly why endlessly messing around with text-editor configuration frippery is a waste of time.

Anyway, it doesn't seem right for Padmapper to be doing this, but for god's sake, could people browsing the primary source for residential ads please have a way of doing that with a map?! That's really all anyone is asking for here. Sheesh.

It's much more balanced than it's being given credit for, because it has the audacity to be honest about things like the fact that a lot of people in India are dirty. Let alone whether there actually are a lot of dirty people, people here are more interested in expressing their indignance. But as I say, it is more balanced than it appears. For example, the story about being hustled at the rug shop -- the author later notes that his mother did indeed get the rug. For example, the story about flipping out at the cab driver over a few dollars. There is no love here for the idiot Westerners traveling to India to experience "spiritual enlightenment".

But commenters don't want to respect his honesty. Just trot out the same old tired accusations of ignorance and cultural arrogance. Oh well.

I got a real kick out of this part, thanks. I'm imagining a scrawny, somewhat aged nerd-type but with a monocle flying off his face. Hilarious.

Anyway, this is pretty much the same thing architects always say, but where I work the ideas for technologies they play with come from "normal" devs like me. Like, RabbitMQ wouldn't even be on their radar unless someone less experienced told them about it.

I know how the "adding value" thing can come off like hard-nosed cowboy coder nonsense. But in truth, we lowly plebeian devs are capable of writing code and keeping apprised of new tech at the same time.

Hell, I'm probably just speaking out of envy since I'd totally take the $150k they're (probably) making to dick around with NodeJS or whatever.

Where I work, Software Architects are people who get paid lots of money to dick around with "new" technologies like RabbitMQ. Then after spending seemingly weeks implementing a trivial proof-of-concept app with the new thing, they present some slides and Visio diagrams at a brown bag nobody attends, and the rest of us ignore them so we can keep building things that actually provide value. Then they go on vacation to Aruba (probably).

It's not as if the legal professionals working on these suits would otherwise be writing code for iOS features. And it's not as if Apple is just waiting for the outcomes of these suits, letting their products stand still in the meantime.

What does this mean? Christensen has a specific definition in mind when he uses the word "disrupt" (which definition is being used in the linked article), and I can't see how it fits into this sentence.