>>15 That's not even my point, I'm not saying that I couldn't google it and figure it out, but that you took that opportunity to attack me and put me down, even if you wrote a simple "Google it", or didn't even respond at all, it would have been better than what you replied with.
I've worked (well actually interned, but still) for software companies where I was clearly near or at the bottom of the barrel in terms of performance. I barely solved any tickets, I pushed broken code that caused the server stack to slow down by 3x, missed meetings, etc. I wouldn't admit that to anyone IRL but I'll do it here because it's anonymous. Anyways, point is, I had every reason to be attacked and made fun of, yet no one did, at worst I got something like "you should work on X". If everyone got verbally disintegrated when they asked a seemingly innocuous question, then every company would be bankrupt, everyone would be pissed at each other and no one would learn anything. Maybe I'm biased because I've had this experience, I don't know, but it's something worth chewing on.
You are anti-teleological, but then tell us X or Y thing will inevitably happen as history grinds on
I see your point, but know that inevitability is inherently scientific, we can make models of reality and use it to predict future events with near perfect accuracy. Society is the same way, but the immense amount of variables make it difficult to make accurate predictions. I don't claim that things will inevitably transpire, but that the evidence points strongly to one side versus the other.
I've worked (well actually interned, but still) for software companies where I was clearly near or at the bottom of the barrel in terms of performance. I barely solved any tickets, I pushed broken code that caused the server stack to slow down by 3x, missed meetings, etc. I wouldn't admit that to anyone IRL but I'll do it here because it's anonymous. Anyways, point is, I had every reason to be attacked and made fun of, yet no one did, at worst I got something like "you should work on X". If everyone got verbally disintegrated when they asked a seemingly innocuous question, then every company would be bankrupt, everyone would be pissed at each other and no one would learn anything. Maybe I'm biased because I've had this experience, I don't know, but it's something worth chewing on.
I see your point, but know that inevitability is inherently scientific, we can make models of reality and use it to predict future events with near perfect accuracy. Society is the same way, but the immense amount of variables make it difficult to make accurate predictions. I don't claim that things will inevitably transpire, but that the evidence points strongly to one side versus the other.