This feels like an odd angle to take in concern around the next decade of programming.
It starts a level below what problems might be the next thing to tackle and focuses on what shiny objects have already got enough traction to be considered concern of the past 3-5 years.
Short-sighted. Boring. Couldn't dance to it.
1-3 years are feasibly predictable
3-7 are 50/50 hunches 20%CI
8-9 you might as well be talking jet packs
10+ You aren't talking about saving or controlling the world? Refactor!
10 years from now, we blow IP up. we napster algorithmic experiences because you can't patent wiping your ass
10 years from now, we make devices cheaper than water from scrap plastic
10 years from now, any human can talk to any other human anytime, anywhere
10 years from now, my meta-data is meaningless and we defund NSA because they are deaf dumb and useless
10 years from now, we eat the rich and feed the poor
Why bother looking 10 years ahead without setting some real goals or at least looking at things that might actually drive the innovation in the next 10 years vs what is already well-planned?
We're all going to be 10 years closer to death and you are believing we'll have "smart dust"? A Roomba in every house!
Do you know how long it's been since I first heard that there would be fucking smart dust? You mean we need to lay a powder of infrastructure down to detect what distributed, distant sensors could tell you? Looks like a whale just barfed in the ocean and we got a ton of our dust back online... water's still wet AND salty there! Dial back the Antarctica dust belcher for a minute to balance out the South Pacific by next year... stupid whales, when will you learn?
He should have stopped at sensors. We'll have 1984. Smart dust? We'll be crotch-deep in gray goo.
Whales are like, "IIIIIIII WIIIIIIILLLLLLL DEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSTRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!"
Being a sound engineer doesn't mean you have good ears or produce good work, etc. It means someone is paying you to do a job. I post on HN because I'm a founder. I've founded 3 companies. None of which lasted more than 2 years. I use BIC ballpoint pens. Their clear plastic never failed me.
That rap was accurate. Better sound through marketing and douche-baggery IP / anti-competitive behavior.
Bose implementations used cheap parts and cut corners, but charged premium prices by being the original MonsterCable. Bose stifled competition and innovation with pre-existing art IP. He also dicked people around with trademark because he was an asshat.
He was only one step better than a patent-troll in terms of his effects on the industry (because he actually did deliver a product). Fuck him and his Beats by Dre bullshit sucker-identifying crap.
Bose was drowning start-ups in the bathtub, let alone badgering any real competition. It's an affront to HN for his death to be atop the list without him being pilloried as a pariah.
Indeed. Let's not forget that Bose sued Consumer Reports in 1971 for publishing a review that described a Bose system as one that "tended to wander about the room" [1].
Knowledge and access are two different things. Subsidized or free contraceptives and comprehensive sex education are economic multipliers - even for people not able or trying to have kids. Shame it's always at the top of the list as a way to help punish women who like to have sex.
You act as if having vaginal sex is not something people can choose to abstain from. That's nonsense - on several occasions, due to a lack of readily available birth control, I chose to receive a blowjob instead.
And the media is the next best thing to an online petition surrounded by ads... ephemeral bullshit to hold attention while we show you commercials.
If they aren't afraid of you burning down their palace, they are not about to change.
Why do people in the US think that change comes from meaningless, one-click bullshit? In Egypt, the military says GTFO. In Syria, they can take up arms and say GTFO and have it not work. You didn't see arabs using twitter for the "retweet this if you want change." It was the get over to street a and b and mob.
Peaceful sit-ins on unused public land, out of the way of the entrenched interests is something to lampoon... nothing to be afraid of. You can't put a poster of Ghandi up on the wall and be taken seriously.
Peaceful resistance is standing in the way of the tank and letting the entrenched powers present themselves to the horror of the world. They will either turn popular sentiment strongly enough that they are taken away, changed, of they will stand down from stupidity.
It's like not forcing legislators to actually filibuster on their feet. Tweet-it-in resistance is worthless.
Stand up, step in, and cross the line if you mean it. Otherwise STFU and GTFO.
Sometimes I feel like everyone else took a history class where the pages of the textbooks were filled with change brought about without violence being done unto someone.
It would seem Twitter and FB have figured out a way to monetize that.
Not sure if you're seeing my statement as advocating non-violent, but confrontational methods... that was the intent. Non-violence without any depth of coverage is a tree falling in the woods with nobody there. You need visibility while being non-violent and catalyzing. You must be present and visible to embody the narrative that enables peoples' opinions to be matched with yours. Who takes the internet hate machine seriously?
If you are similar or the same in fundamental, value/moral terms, others are able to identify with you and see how your plight/demands and their aspirations for themselves are the same.
Online petitions are worthless. You need videos that tell the story - like Mitt Romney and his 47%. You need students getting pepper-sprayed. Overreach and douche-baggery strengthen resolve for the believers and give second-thought to anyone trying to reconcile their better selves with the crappier elements of their own side.
Non-violence means little if you are not causing people to deal with you. Nobody is called to account for an online petition or a peaceful protest covered lightly as a hippie revival.
You have to push the envelope and make it uncomfortable - something requiring answers.
Yeah, I agree. Violence is basically unavoidable at some level. I prefer true non-violence as the solution to problems, which is why I have a problem with labeling Gandhi's version of violence as non-violence. I think it's better understood as extreme passive aggression.
It starts a level below what problems might be the next thing to tackle and focuses on what shiny objects have already got enough traction to be considered concern of the past 3-5 years.
Short-sighted. Boring. Couldn't dance to it.
1-3 years are feasibly predictable 3-7 are 50/50 hunches 20%CI 8-9 you might as well be talking jet packs 10+ You aren't talking about saving or controlling the world? Refactor!
10 years from now, we blow IP up. we napster algorithmic experiences because you can't patent wiping your ass 10 years from now, we make devices cheaper than water from scrap plastic 10 years from now, any human can talk to any other human anytime, anywhere 10 years from now, my meta-data is meaningless and we defund NSA because they are deaf dumb and useless 10 years from now, we eat the rich and feed the poor
Why bother looking 10 years ahead without setting some real goals or at least looking at things that might actually drive the innovation in the next 10 years vs what is already well-planned?
We're all going to be 10 years closer to death and you are believing we'll have "smart dust"? A Roomba in every house!
Do you know how long it's been since I first heard that there would be fucking smart dust? You mean we need to lay a powder of infrastructure down to detect what distributed, distant sensors could tell you? Looks like a whale just barfed in the ocean and we got a ton of our dust back online... water's still wet AND salty there! Dial back the Antarctica dust belcher for a minute to balance out the South Pacific by next year... stupid whales, when will you learn?
He should have stopped at sensors. We'll have 1984. Smart dust? We'll be crotch-deep in gray goo.
Whales are like, "IIIIIIII WIIIIIIILLLLLLL DEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSTRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!"