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I've often thought companies should provide say $500/month for each of their developers to pay out to the open source projects of their choice. One month an employee might give it to Vim, another to Curl. I think a discretionary scheme like that would buy a lot of good will from the employees, potential hires and the development community.
I've always thought that governments should do this to fund the arts in general, and political campaigns. Some of your taxes directed to the recipients of your choice. In the case of the arts, it would of course be a floor, but in the case of political contributions, it could be a ceiling.
I think this is a good proposal and have also been interested in an expanded version of this where the company donates $X to _any_ profit cause, but directed by the employees. This way you can pay Vim one month and the NAACP or the ACLU the next month.
An easier way to scale this might be to just have a set amount (say $10k/month for a large company) and a recurring ranked-choice poll open to all employees. The funds would be allocated according to the poll, with the winner getting say $5k and the two runner ups getting $3k and $2k or something like that.
This way employees don't have to do the work of submitting donations and filing expenses, as there's just one person at the company who administrates it a few days a month.
Non-profits take in money too (just like for profit companies). The only big difference is they do not profit (money over and above expenses). Employees at non-profits are still paid, receive benefits, etc.
I think you mean that _you_ pronounce them differently. I've heard 'Nike' pronounced in more ways than any other brand name; I myself pronounce it in at least two different ways.
It's interesting that you see the relationship between a Catholic and his/her church as analogous to that between a corporation and their "users".
While believers in 'ethical consumption' would say that the moral principles of producers certainly should be a concern for consumers, not everybody agrees. But when choosing a religious creed, the behaviour of the founders and keepers of the faith is surely of paramount importance.
Can you really say that issues of child abuse are not interesting to Catholic followers, because they "just use the product"?
> That's like saying mechanics classes should be required
I think mechanics class should totally be required. I'm often amazed that we force children to study subjects like geography or physics, that are important but only if you're interested in them and not terribly practical anyway.
I think all children should have to learn basic life skills to enable them to control their physical and social environment ('hack' in the context of this article). Subjects such as driving, mechanics, basic electronics, law, small business, tax, nutrition, rhetoric, negotiation, plumbing etc. etc. And those just off the top of my head.
All 'academic' subjects should merely be introduced and then left up to the student to choose to pursue. What on earth is the point of filling children's heads full of history (for example) if they aren't interested? They forget every word of it a year after their final exam anyway.
Your points are definitely interesting. But I still think I'd teach a lot of what you wrote above before I'd even think to teach them programming. Plus, empirically, people have a harder time learning to program than e.g. learning to drive.
'Haa men bord chok ket 775' = 'Find motherboard socket 775.'
I would have thought that 'socket' would be a direct English transliteration, and use ซ (s) not ช (ch) though.
Are you in Thailand, Jacques? Also, what makes you think this is such an uncommon phrase? It may not rival English, but there are plenty of Thai speakers out there, in many countries.
> in England you'd study whatever your father studied. If he was a blacksmith, you were a blacksmith
The idea that England had (and has) no social mobility is quite wrong. People have been climbing the social ladder since long before the Industrial Revolution.
It may help you in some ways to think of the new America as opposed to everything Britain stood for, but I think that is mostly incorrect. The philosophies and values of the Age of Enlightenment came from a long history of European thought. America was far closer to a young son continuing and realising the father's long held hopes and ideas with fresh blood and the chance to start on its own feet.
The kind of teacher/pupil coach/athlete relationship you are talking about is expressly not what Universities have historically aimed to provide. A University gives a student access to resources (including mentors), and time to study, it _does not_ provide someone to continuously watch over you in the way you describe.
In fact, you are only really tested to see if you have improved once in an entire bachelor degree -- at the end of it.
Anterior is improving the experience of healthcare for everyone. We're growing fast on the cutting edge of using AI to make clinical decisioning frictionless.
About You: You have a passion for doing things The Right Way, you believe Less is More, you want to focus on Foundations of system design and architecture (pacelc, consistency guarantees), you care as much about the code you do not write, you’re tired of the hype treadmill and care about the fundamentals. You have battle scars from overengineered and underperforming slop, and you care about writing code that lasts.
- Langs: Python / Go / TS, React (and HTMX if you can help!) - Infra: Nix, CDKTF, AWS
We're hiring engineers to work directly with our end customers owning strategy and execution. The playbook for LLM-enabled enterprise software is not yet written. Come and help us write it!
Reach out directly: saul@anterior.com