"Move Fast and Break Things" inspired a generation of incompetence.
I think there were three elements of this mindset that were assumed knowledge on the part of the person who said it:
1. "Move fast and break things...in a development environment where possible".
2. "Move fast and break things...in a way that is easily reversible." (see #1)
3. "Move fast and break things...and assume they will break, so assume you'll be fixing what broke" (see #2 and #1).
I can appreciate that Facebook can have this mindset, and in the case of a social network, there *is* an element of wisdom in not treating it like the IBM-of-old that overengineered EVERYTHING, making it super-reliable, but also making development very slow and very expensive. Facebook's focus on agility makes perfect sense for the nature of the work.
This doesn't work in every field, though. From finance to medicine to engineering, the costs are much, much greater than the loss of cat videos. Just because something makes sense in one field, doesn't mean it makes sense in EVERY field...and unfortunately, there are very, very few MBAs who understand the one thing that is more valuable than money: wisdom. Wisdom can earn money, but money can't buy wisdom.
The USA claims jurisdiction over the entire Internet based on "the bits touched our server!"
How do you like the same argument applied to US companies? Not so much? Then maybe change a few of your "might makes right" laws like the patriot (lol) act.
Otherwise this is just the beginning of the end of free Internet.
Similar to all the people who love bananas so much they throw them on the field at football matches when black players are in the team. They also love monkeys so much they imitate them.
Just free speech, not harassment or intimidation at all, even when it's 200 people doing it.
How would you like for me to shout the constitution in your ear all day? I hear you like the constitution a lot, so it's just free speech. Or do you disagree with the constitution?
Free speech absolutists are hypocrits in general, idiots in the main, and will go all surprised pikachu face whenever there is another genocide fomented by a few groups that like to get rich quick, because "personal responsibility".
They went from "nothing to see here" for DUAL_EC_DRBG, to "dog ate my homework" for ECC curves
Even the NSA wouldn't gamble on being the only ones able to crack it, so it will be some constant encoding a defacto public key yet again, like usual.
ECC if you don't use NSA's backdoored shitty curves can be very efficient.
They're also never actually free on the scamazon store, it's just a subscription that you don't ever own.
This clearly comes down from the top, "force AI into everything and show me uptake, or else
Meanwhile the market is clapping because the morons at the top lucked into the money printer which is the cloud transition. Also 365/Azure are handled with some competence
A friend of mine is extremely fortunate to have a bit more of an 'old school' environment. They have a TV, but she doesn't let her kids use her phone. She's able to be a stay-at-home-mom, supplementing the household income with baked goods and Etsy projects and eggs from her chickens. She pays attention to her kids, not as a helicopter parent, but as a genuinely involved parent - going on walks, taking them to the library, teaching them how to interact safely with the chickens, having them cook with her, teaching them arithmetic and reading, playing with them, giving them simple chores...really making it a point to focus on early childhood education. This in turn is evident in her kids' longer attention spans, and ability to have discussions at levels in excess of their peers.
Something tells me that they will do far better than their peers on standardized tests...not because they had less screen time and spent their formative years staring at the wall instead, but because she's been an active parent and made it a point to make the most of the pre-kindergarten years.
She's an exception, sure...but the point generally stands - parents who just hand their kid an iPad and leave them alone are going to end up with kids focused on entertainment rather than exploring their world and gaining understanding, which will likely be reflected on standardized test scores to some extent.
I would also submit that one of the contributors to this problem is how basically every video game has devolved into a skinner box and dopamine dispenser. Puzzle games exist, but it's an incredibly exhaustive process to load an iPad exclusively with games that are pay-once, no-IAPs. It would be interesting to see if such a thing *could* be used as part of an experimental group, where kids who only played games that had traditional progression mechanics were compared to kids who had games that were colorful slot machines.
If God had not given us sticky tape, it would have been necessary to invent it.