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rip aaron swartz

Thank you, this goes to the top of my reading pile for tomorrow! We've been doing a lot of uv conversions at work and I have a specific personal use for this as well

I have an idea of what this might look like, but do you have any examples I can crib from?

This has been my experience in San Francisco over the past 15 years. The techbro types, who see technology as a way to get rich, often share the same worldview that life is about "winning" and in this business you "win" if you are smarter than others, so therefore since they are "winning", they are smart and deserve everything they get (or... take). But, that mentality and their behavior and the culture it creates can often influence humble, empathetic people into that toxic self-hype cycle.

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I saw plenty of those today in SF

I play a lot of doom and hang out with a few gay fellas and can confirm this is pretty close to reality.

Oh sure, let me just check with Charlie Ki- oh wait

I just hope Froglord gets more exposure during this time

I just have all black, no problems

It's D

White dude in software here to echo the same sentiment. So many of my colleagues have never experienced any hardship of their own or viewpoints of people with different experiences. They don't think about how their privilege has helped them get where they are, and how their company culture often subtly (at best!) reinforces their worldview and massages their egos. They've never tried to think critically about their "meritocracy" or "libertarian" beliefs and how many people are unjustly excluded from the lifestyle they enjoy.

20 years in software development for me.