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One thing that we seem to constantly need to be reminded of, is the fact that the world gets a new set of human minds, every year, looking at the scene. Children are among us. While some of us may have had decades to dissect the polity of the world, yet new minds are today discovering the basics. Thus, there really isn't any 'news' as such - just 'data relevant to those available to view it'. The consumerist ideal of 'the new new' is a fallacy; in fact things need to be at least 6 months old before they become 'the new thing', in most realms of human cultural interaction.

This fact of 'where new comes from' (sex, basically) is true of developers, as it is true of any other human responsibility that can be taken. Developers, new to the scene, who do not know what was there when they arrived (for various reasons), end up building new things. Those new things do in fact represent progress to the human species; in that they can be as-broken or as-brilliant as anything else, but won't - likely - be exactly the same as anything else out there. Difference drives us forward.

But calling people out specifically and associating them with animals is, alas, not a new thing. It has been going on forever, it seems. Is it not tiresome to a developer to be instantiating fallacies like 'magpie disorder' on other human beings so easily?

Not that I agree with the position that the 'always-new widget must be used' specifically; more that 'new ways to discriminate' isn't something this hacker, personally, wants to read about ..




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