Praxis

About 23 million developers, etwa 0.3% of 7.8 billion, but life long commitments are rare.

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  咆哮的二十年代  
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Juan Edwin Daugherty (* 29 December, 1953 in Chicago; † — ebenda? ), professionally « 仁人卷 », is an American computer programmer. Having happily aged out of the IT career track, e has high hopes. AMAB, He, Him are His binär vornamen. 'Semi-retired' in his case means he only works for fun and glory,^* not a paycheck.

^*And the satisfaction and earnings Capitalism affords only to the self deployed.

69 - 现在

As BDFL of « domain space » ( 开发空间 ), DDD is a Schwerpunkt going forward with —

1. a modern KEE service for domains,
2. line infrastructure reusable in bespoke apps,
3. a DNS (域名) peering scheme,
4. system products to support α-γ.

Contract jobs: cheap for capability maturity level.                          

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A ce stade de son métier, Software Auteur

工 王

Engaging and useful services — hic attempto.

README

What is a PWYWG?

Intend that ultimately domain space will operate without this core.
Core domain space will remain entirely our original or adapted software.
Any downstream inet spaces based on this one are autonomously operated.

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1974 - 2018

1974 is the actual start because that's when I took training at the schools Control Data was running and actually did first programming, but I went back for a 4 year degree majoring in Math and CS and only had operator jobs before 1980. I did have a DP course at a community college before CDC in '73 which pushes it back to my teens. The Control Data Institute I went to btw, was in the building shown on the Bob Newhart Show at that time on Michigan Avenue as being where he had his office.

From the late nineties I mostly worked remote, but did work on-site in Buffalo in '14/15, and from the late 80s 60% or so of my work was on a contractor basis, from the turn of the century largely independent of 3rd party parasites. By late '21, I consider this phase of working life conclusively ended, the last actual non-PWYWG gig was early '19 I think. An unfavorable start in life, a less than propitious childhood, led to my first working life being less than it might have been. However I think it was a tremendous success in delivering me more or less whole, as a life long learner with a high IQ, and considerable depth of experience as an IT worker, to this point where I can work for myself, society at large, and direct production. Although I knew early on that wage earners never escape commodity labor earning levels, only the unfolding of time landed me at a place where I could fully act on that knowledge.

Rest of this § a digression on political economy in this period. The div here about CV space moved to the talk page.

I am very far from thinking that the acquisitive instinct is fundamentally wrong or that altruism is necessarily right. I definitely believe that selfishness which does not harm others can be a virtue, it's just that so far, a thetic social form that makes it so has not been achieved. The present neoliberal and state capitalist world order shows a widening gap between workers and workers of Capital, relative to its predecessors, which provided factory workers with middle class incomes. A brave new world of greater social security but less effective individuality emerges, not as was and is thought as a result of totalitarian or 'democratic' socialism but rather ironically as a result of the global dominance of doctrinal capital with its supposed philosophical base in individualism.

Defined as a basing of society solely on the principle of accumulation, Capitalism will ultimately be unsustainable because of the unappreciated aspect of mortmain. Every social order puts someone, a class, in charge. Globalized Capitalism is unique in that it just puts a class in charge and an abstract one at that. It's just false that that class operates in the way former orders did to control and order society actively, indeed they are incapable of doing so since the globalized class is inhibited by a number of practical reasons from being the same kind of conscious actor that a national bourgeoisie can be and most simply pursue their own interests and genuinely don't desire power aside from that which accumulation confers. It is this rudderlessness which ultimately will cause a return to Capitalism just being an economic regime within society organized on some other principle(s) as was the case in its progressive period, and is the case in the successful statecap regimes.

To paraphrase 邓小平, it is indeed glorious to become rich, but not by expropriation and not at the expense of the best possible development of society at large.

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