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Aligning everyone in a big corporation is like herding cats - you've got workers worried about their day-to-day, managers trying to balance their carrier plus top and bottom, and executives planning for the long haul. Lots of potential for clashes and dropped balls there.

The fix? Clear, strategic chatter top to bottom; giving employees a real stake in decision-making; building up leadership skills in your managers; aligning performance incentives with company goals; and creating a team culture that's all about working together and being transparent. Easier said than done...

"It’s not a movement, but it’s all over the place. It’s changed the way we see and think of things, almost everybody. It’s libertarian, socialism, anarchism. Of course, they’re not going to be popular. We have a class-based society, rigid class-based society. The business classes, the ultra-rich are dedicated to class war. They’re basically vulgar Marxists, fight values inverted, constantly fighting a harsh class war. They control the resources, control the institutions, control the economy. So yes, ideas that they don’t like, you don’t hear. Nothing novel about that."

Ideed, nothing novel and basicaly impossible to avoid if you have a society with elites (even left oriented elites will do the same, even worse)... It is a tautology that elites will censor what it is against their interests. I wander if is even desirable to build a society with elites that are open to be replaced by "better" values, or "better" execution. It looks to me that the only good approach is to have societies composed by many small "sub-societies" with different values and different elites that compete on attracting supporters. Of course this is not with very serious challenges too...

Maybe the real issues emerge from capitalist system rules and incentives and the current tech industry is just shaped and emerged as a result?

Good news for automating the testing of the iOS apps...

Good points!

Well.. this articole has some points but is not 100% fair or correct. The value of distributed ledger (aka blockchain) is given by the fact that you can find the latest version of a record in a decentralised way. This is usefull outside cryptocurencies (even for university diplomas you need a good mecanism for revocation). You can do revocation with a centralised system but a decentralised version could actualy imprive security and privacy (not with blockchains alone you need encryption and other cryprographic tools)

I remember this page from geocites... Opend my eye about some ugly aspects of OOP. But, without proper marketing and without some luck a lot of ideas should be rediscovered again and again. And maybe the table oriented programming ideas are too common sense and therefore not a good kind of diferentatior compared with other smart ppl...

Very good indeed!

Very cool idea! Love it!

For c/c++ just use lemon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_(parser_generator)

I think that lemon is comming from the same author as sqlite. I used it like 15 years ago ;) but i still remember lemon as high quality piece of software (Much better compared with flex, yacc, bison...)

Maybe earth was "seeded" by a galactic civilisation... Or not.. Things that happen at such large time scales are kind of irelevant for us.

For the taildrop author: I could see potential on this to be used in the enterprise blockchain area with a condition: make it easy to setup a virtual network in wich each member is manually approving public keys of the consortium members. Working with docker/kubernetes will also be good. Contact me (taildropfromhn at axiologic.net) if you want details. We will love to use such a VPN setup in a real blockchain project for pharma industry.

For others: therr others that will appreciate the better security offered by using public key cryptography while still having a lightwight but decentralised setup?

It is in Antartica and got no rain but snow ;)

There we have ideas like executable choreographies (implementable by swarm communication) intended to be glue code at the integration level of the systems. Unfortunatly systems start small and dont need choreographies and when they become big is too late... The level of abstractions is also a bit high. But in general makes sense to break your systems in reusable bricks and glue code...

What language?

I think that most of us would say that you are not imagining it. However, predicting the future is hard. The whole system is a fiction and can be patched for a long time with new fictions. The suffering of many get disipated by some sofisticated smoke screens that got perfected hundreds of years. Whithout major environment disruptions, no significant correction will happen because most people are quite clueless and very short term oriented. Even rich people. The complexity is too big for our minds. Do you believe that 25%/year (made up number) inflation is a huge correction?

(CNN)A microscopic animal has been revived after slumbering in the Arctic permafrost for 24,000 years

Not a real animal ;)

You should also look to OpenDSU (opendsu.com) that covers in a unique ways these aspects. Basicaly it goes to build on the vision in wich applications are running inside digital wallets and you control your data (client side encryption) while beeing able to collaborate with others and get security in a decentraliassd way using various types of anchoring in ledgers (not necesarly distributed or your typical blockchains but of course this could be the case too)

Good stuff ;) An alternarive theory competing meta-rationality. And also complementing it a bit :) I found this part quite insightfull:

"Some freely emulate other Sociopaths. Others carve out more imaginative paths. Morality becomes a matter of expressing fundamental dispositions rather than respecting social values. Kindness or cruelty, freely expressed. Those who are amused by suffering use their powers to cause it. Those who enjoy watching happiness theaters, create them through detached benevolence."

Quote from the link: Kegan describes three stages of adult development (numbered 3, 4, and 5). We could call them pre-rational, rational, and meta-rational. These stages are distinctive, internally consistent, relatively-well-functioning modes for organizing one’s thinking, one’s self, and one’s relationships. They might be described as “islands of psychological stability.” To progress from one island to the next, you must cross a heaving sea of psychological confusion, in which the previous mode no longer seems functional, but you cannot yet operate in the next mode reliably. These stage transitions are emotionally and cognitively difficult, and typically take several years, during which one may think, feel, and act inconsistently.

These ideas are not discussed enough, do you know any schools that teach it and give people a hope to achive meta-dationality? It is there a risk of people faking meta-rationality?

Yes.. metarationality is basicaly a sort of belief system about how and what we can undestand. If we dont undestand our limits and we do not use rationalities as tools we end in scientism or very wrong belief systems built on "fakery" and self delusions..

Another good introduction: https://drossbucket.com/2017/09/30/metarationality-a-messy-i...

I see the swarm in a different way: it is a set of objects and effects happening within time but still identifiable from a single source. The synchornisation that you are talking about could be required but we can see the swarm as exploring an distributed system in time as well in space and using the external world as some sort of synchronisation support. The entities of the swarm are like messages with an simple associated behaviour. Synchronisation is complex and it is part of world exploited by swarms for a while but not really an behaviour of the swarm... Look at my examples: in choregraphies the synchronisation becomes the propagation of some effects in a distributed system, in the business process case the swarm happens in time but at a specific time you have few swarm members alive and just persisting the instance is some sort of synchronisation. In the case of smart contracts, the swarm is just at a logical level as part of consensus... May be is a bit strange to play this game but I find it usefull to imagine or even progam complex events as swarms of little entities with short lives and with fairly simple behaviours that can compose in complex behaviour of the swarm itself.

Examples: 1. executable chreographies implemented as messages belonging to the same identity (swarm of related messages) 2. workflows (BPM kinf of stuff when you look at them as long living processes). In this case the process dies and get revieved in time. All these instaces belonving to a single concept. 3. Even smart contracts fall under this swarm approach because the execution happens in many places but somehow it is still a single concept.

In an way, obkects are just degenrated swarms...

The whole idea is quite simple but maybe a bit too abstract... We proposed even an simple primitive called "swarm" that can be used to program. I had a old project called swarmesb (not active anymore) but this perspective got me to a lot more insights in another open source research project called privatesky... https://privatesky.xyz/overview/swarms-explained is an attempt i made to explain this way of seeing swarms.

Nice title but the article is a bit boring. I am an old programmer by now.. and i agree that objects are inevitable as are other paradigms too. Each tool has good and bad cases... Anyway, beside ADTs and other perspectives, objects are a nice way for compressing (give identity and establishing a set of good enoug number of proprieties) for complex (messy) relations and interactions. Functions are another way as also rules, constaints, etc. There is a concept called "swarm communication" that propose a deeper concept in the same direction as objects. It is possible to give identities to swarms of objects interacting in complex distributed systems. This concept is somehow also inevitable but I found it difficult to explain with words but much easier to explain to programmers showing a bit of code ;)

“This infection is an accidental cross-species transmission,” its statement said. “The risk of large-scale transmission is low.” No news here ;)

Not available in Europe.. Do you have other link?

Two very different ways of seeing the same problem..

Probably NFTs will make these useful...

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