@datarama @david_chisnall @MaddieM4 @cyberquixote No doubt! Like Ruha Benjamin says, technology always ships the culture of its makers. And the vast majority of our technology comes from a couple of monocultures, Silicon Valley and fossbros to name two. That leaves a lot of other cultures unrepresented, unprepared for.
@bright_helpings @datarama @MaddieM4 @cyberquixote
I’m not even convinced that these are distinct monocultures. There’s a narrative that the east and west coasts had different engineering cultures, but they were both spin outs from the UNIX world. Most of the non-UNIX-derived cultures have been sidelined (even Microsoft tends to hire NT kernel engineers who have experience on some open-source kernel, which is normally a UNIX derivative).
@david_chisnall @bright_helpings @datarama @MaddieM4 @cyberquixote Am reminded of Prof. Regehr's blog post on _inversions_ in computing: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1204 . Some techniques in computing are impractical/useless or practical/useful merely due to particular pressures (e.g. parts of a system happen to be faster or slower than others).