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Game designer of Braid and The Witness. Partner in IndieFund.

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    1. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Aug 19
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      Okay people. This is where we are at, now.https://mightyapp.com/ 

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    2. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Aug 19
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      Wow, this is amazing at a meta level, when discussing software brokenness ... what do people see as the preview link for this site? Here is what I see. wtf??pic.twitter.com/ImqvCQrxJx

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    3. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Aug 19
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      Anyway, that wasn't the point of the tweet. The point was, we all now have amazing supercomputers faster than the fastest computer in the world was 20 years ago, computers on which governments spent huge amount of money to simulate nuclear explosions and nanotech and whatever...

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      Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Aug 19
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      And you have this whole program the point of which is to be a dumb client to show server-side data. But because Modern Software, now I guess that is too slow! Now you need a server to run the client to view the server-side data and then show it to your client client.

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        2. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Aug 19
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          I am going to get ahead of the curve and start my new company Mightier, because we know that after everyone switches to Mighty, that will become too slow. So you can use Mightier to use your Mighty to use Chrome to see the data on the server.

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        3. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Aug 19
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          Currently selling shares, for only 0.001btc per share.

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        2. Alien426‏ @Alien426 Aug 20
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          That's not how it works nowadays. Wix and http://Origin.com  put JavaScript in your browser, load data from the server, build the website in your browser. JavaScript used to add a little interactivity to web pages. Today, you could do a lot of that in CSS.

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        3. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Aug 20
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          Uh huh. Keep telling me how it makes sense that a supercomputer is required to draw text and images.

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        1. Wouter‏ @wvo Aug 19
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          Wait, now you use Mighty to play games on Stadia, which gives you a client client client that removes both the inefficiencies of Chrome AND a AAA game! Of course make sure it is a multiplayer game such that you have a server server optimizing your client client client experience.

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        2. Ashkan Aliabadi‏ @AshkanAliabadi Aug 20
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          The market rewards that for which there is demand. There simply is more demand for software that is slow and bloated yet cheap because it took 2 weeks to develop in [X] by a team of 1, rather than an efficient equivalent that costs more because it took 6 months by a team of 4.

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        3. Ashkan Aliabadi‏ @AshkanAliabadi Aug 20
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          The winner takes all economy of software also promotes experimentation, which again means slow bloated yet quick to develop shit has a higher chance of success than the efficient but slow to ship version. If performance is not absolutely required, it will not be rewarded.

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        4. Ashkan Aliabadi‏ @AshkanAliabadi Aug 20
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          Unfortunately of course. I really lament the current state of most software.

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        1. tbodt‏ @tblodt Aug 20
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          it even uses less than 200MB of memory!! yes it actually lists that as a selling point

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