Point is, fixing software dev is not a technical problem, it’s a social coordination problem.
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Replying to @Meaningness @emareaf
Sometimes social problems have technical fixes, though. Sufficiently better technology might replace all the crap quickly.
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Replying to @Meaningness
one problem is that you can't replace all the crap at once. So the best you can do is 10% beauty 90% stuff that deals with crap
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Replying to @emareaf
Yes. There are various obvious approaches to dealing with this, none ideal. Urbit is one.
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Replying to @Meaningness
cynical me says it's gonna be another ivory tower like Smalltalk.
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Replying to @emareaf
Smalltalk had a lot of positive influence, even though no one used it; so that would be a good-ish outcome!
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Replying to @Meaningness @emareaf
The details of Urbit look almost entirely wrong, but it gets some big things right, and the sheer audacity is inspiring.
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Replying to @Meaningness @emareaf
Everyone knows everything is crap, but Yarvin is virtually the only one saying “so we have to throw it all out and start over.”
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Replying to @Meaningness @emareaf
nah wrong (loper-os, unison, pretty much all the forth processor people, to name the first three that come to mind)
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Replying to @allgebrah @emareaf
Huh. Not heard of those. Googled the first one, which seems to be one guy who is a fan of Symbolics CL…
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Since I did all my university programming on Symbolics, and bitterly mourn its death, I’m sympathetic!
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