Good thing it isnt? What a stupid argument. People have gotten by just fine without making their asses wet and patting them dry everytime they shit for a while now. How do you know the water doesn't just spread shit everywhere and you don't clean it up properly?
This comment is really unbecoming of me. I honestly was just kinda peeved at the entire conversation and should have passed by without leaving a negative thought.
I wish! If there's a good book out about it, I'd love a recommendation too. I lived it though, writing my first "software" as a youth in the mid-80s. I've seen a lot of change in computing. And not all "get off my lawn" bad, just different.
I see software now as having three different faces: software-as-art, software-as-business, and software-as-engineering. The 80s and 90s had a lot of activity in software-as-art. I was mostly following Mac culture at the time, so I saw this through Bungie, Ambrosia, BareBones, and hundreds of smaller indie developers. The environment at the time enforced the software-as-art discipline, because downloading a program happened over 14.4kbps or slower, or 28.8kbps if your parents had good jobs, and came along with yelling that often sounded like, "get off the phone!" "But I'm downloading!" Installation media was 700K or 1.4MB, and that had to have all your code, art, sound, and other resources.
That's mostly all gone now. Bungie of course got married to Microsoft, which pissed off Mac enthusiasts way more than when Jobs announced a partnership with MS to get Office on the Mac. They've done well. Panic are the only old-school indie commercial desktop software developers I can think of off the top of my head that are still pretty true to their roots.
A lot of software of course just became free. I enjoy so much more high quality software at no cost now, which is really only possible because of the massive benefits of scale that have come from all the tools that have trickled down from software-as-business.
Software-as-business really took off. Apple, Microsoft, Sun, Oracle and others were always kinda big, but not the impossibly large megacorps that they are now. Most of them were still vulnerable to serious mistakes, and that was good, because it meant the users still had some power. Now, mistakes in software development don't really matter to these companies unless they impact 8 figures of quarterly revenue, and that's a process that has zero room for software-as-art.
Software-as-engineering is mostly stillborn, languishing in academia or a few places with rigorous standards (like NASA) or still finding its footing in modern DevOps. I still hold out hope that eventually this aspect will get some love too. I think it will be necessary, eventually, but maybe not until after I've written my last line of code.
Yeah people always drive by with this exact comment. My writing style comes off this way sometimes, I can't control how you interpret my comments. It's a social media post, not a great American novel.
Oh no my social media comment was read as "smarmy" by some internet drone. Yawn
All it does is raise the stakes. Thats why police forces in America are heavily militarised. I can guarantee that if Hong Kong citizens had guns the police would have a disproportionate answer that included more deadly weaponry than they already do.
> Thats why police forces in America are heavily militarised.
Police forces are heavily militarized because of the bonkers amount of money thrown at them in the name of the "War on Drugs" and more recent "War on Terror". Note the connection between "war" and an increasingly militarized police force.
This is a powerful message and makes it very evocative for communicating the need for a treaty. Why is the government so inhumane and closed to the idea of reconciling a disgusting history?
Because it can open a dangerous door for bigger unknown issues and is easier to just wait for those voices to pass away while integrating their children in your society. Conquer then assimilate, is the number one tool of all empires, past and present.
They are 'allowing' people into a private beta of a programming language? Coupled with the fact it is not open source and has a bunch of fad ad-tech videos on the front page this is so many red flags.
Agreed, the quality of their web site tells a lot, especially when their product is for developers
- Trendy font that reminds me of Comic sans
- 1 MB of images and JS
- Mission statement and values read as generic lifestyle brand copy.
- A 1.4 mb PNG header image on their beta sign up page
- Tiny unreadable video (with huge black borders) or full screen only.
Its expensive because its good and the amount of engineering to make sure this doesn't drop a single sample in live performance costs time, expertise and cash.
I have friends who work there in a number of areas and colleagues who have freelanced for them (convolution reverb for example). It is pretty nice from what I hear and the focus is very much enabling creativity before profit.
