Yes, everything is shit. As a perfectionist, I’m still struggling to accept it. But the world is driven my money an… https://t.co/stzhDe4E3c 11 atbildes
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Kirill Korolyov (2018-09-21 22:33:52) |
Yes, everything is shit. As a perfectionist, I’m still struggling to accept it. But the world is driven my money an… https://t.co/stzhDe4E3c | |
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Kirill Korolyov (2018-09-21 22:39:33) |
A controversial opinion: one reason might be massive influx of junior developers into the field combined with the m… https://t.co/uIVWAFSUrD | |
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Kirill Korolyov (2018-09-21 22:47:38) |
Another potential reason: as computing resources became cheaper, we’ve started exploring the ideas of expressivenes… https://t.co/S0oasTF8ew | |
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Kirill Korolyov (2018-09-21 22:53:52) |
It’s important to reconcile these ideas with performance. However, I imagine progress not as a single line, but rat… https://t.co/rpwnNogzGJ | |
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Kirill Korolyov (2018-09-21 23:01:50) |
Software abstractions are generally built on top of existing abstractions and only occasionally destroy levels unde… https://t.co/E2l2P9RcnT | |
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Kirill Korolyov (2018-09-21 23:12:26) |
Higher-level abstractions generally provide less benefit than lower-level ones but might require even more resource… https://t.co/rQGIvs0h7j | |
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Kirill Korolyov (2018-09-21 23:18:04) |
As we manage to solve older problems with better efficiency (or increase the amount of resources available), we ten… https://t.co/BsxJtGqdlD | |
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Kirill Korolyov (2018-09-21 23:28:08) |
Take text, for example. We’ve moved from showing bitmap 8-bit characters on a screen to displaying a vector-based,… https://t.co/8fDjIEg7CP | |
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Kirill Korolyov (2018-09-21 23:31:33) |
To an outsider it’s all the same, just “displaying letters”. However, the complexity is massive. And it’s not getti… https://t.co/trvW1ScyKd | |
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Kirill Korolyov (2018-09-21 23:33:08) |
Which means that our software is becoming buggier and slower, unless we throw in more resources and developer time. | |
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Kirill Korolyov (2018-09-21 23:38:51) |
With all that said, I wish we’d spend more time finding better solutions to existing problems before jumping ahead.… https://t.co/fIoxsE792U | |
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Kirill Korolyov (2018-09-21 23:58:16) |
People are never fully happy with what they have, it’s just part of our nature (check out the book “Sapiens” on thi… https://t.co/2iZHKeFlj7 | |