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Designer/Programmer of Braid and The Witness. President, Thekla, Inc. Partner in IndieFund. Currently working on good new things.

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    1. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Apr 27

      The public version of the Web started taking off in 1995, around the time Netscape Navigator was released. Here's the World Supercomputer List for 1995: https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/1995/06/ … A Coffee Lake GPU in a random laptop is almost double the performance of the top of that list.

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    2. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Apr 27

      Jonathan Blow Retweeted Suhail

      So what we are observing is, since the Web started, it has become so much slower that a supercomputer would no longer be able to run it? Does that make sense to anyone?https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1387063023521595394 …

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      1/ Today we're unveiling Mighty: a faster browser that is entirely streamed from a powerful computer in the cloud. Demo in the next tweet 👇 New website: https://mightyapp.com 
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    3. Mark Papadakis‏ @markpapadakis Apr 27
      Replying to @Jonathan_Blow

      Isn’t this somewhat unfair though? Similar arguments were probably made for video games evolution, operating systems etc. As technology advances applications “expand” to take advantage of it, for better or worse, and may also in turn be the catalyst for technology advancements.

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    4. Steven Hutton‏ @StevenBHutton Apr 27
      Replying to @markpapadakis @Jonathan_Blow

      That's not quite the same. A videogame today renders a huge multiple of the number of triangles that they did in 1995. With countless new features. A website is basically just rendering text and images to the screen. Mostly the same functionality with much worse performance.

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    5. Yury Molodtsov  👀‏ @y_molodtsov Apr 27
      Replying to @StevenBHutton @markpapadakis @Jonathan_Blow

      "A website is basically just rendering text and images to the screen." Tell that to Figma.

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    6. Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Apr 27
      Replying to @y_molodtsov @StevenBHutton @markpapadakis

      But, Figma ... renders text and images ... to the screen.

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    7. Yury Molodtsov  👀‏ @y_molodtsov Apr 27
      Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @StevenBHutton @markpapadakis

      If you put it like that what else does any all do? :) But it would never work 20 years ago.

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    8. Rust‏ @ThinkImlazy Apr 27
      Replying to @y_molodtsov @Jonathan_Blow and

      How half-life worked 20 years ago? Figma "didn't exist" 20 years ago because there is no such a big market for apps and web pages as today. It was technically possible 20 years ago.

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    9. Yury Molodtsov  👀‏ @y_molodtsov Apr 27
      Replying to @ThinkImlazy @Jonathan_Blow and

      It literally wasn't technically possible in a web browser.

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    10. Steven Hutton‏ @StevenBHutton Apr 27
      Replying to @y_molodtsov @ThinkImlazy and

      Yeah, I mean, the whole premise of the discussion is that web tech is horrible.

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      Jonathan Blow‏ @Jonathan_Blow Apr 27
      Replying to @StevenBHutton @y_molodtsov and

      I would dispute this statement, because I have seen very very little in web that even qualifies as "tech".

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