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    1. yan‏ @bcrypt Apr 14

      yan Retweeted  🔎Julia Evans 🔍

      A lot of people ask "why should I work in software development as opposed to math/physics/finance/etc.?" One reason is that this field is surprisingly full of "inadequate equilibria" (a steady-state in which low-hanging fruits are still available for non-experts to solve).https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/985224076758106112 …

      yan added,

       🔎Julia Evans 🔍 @b0rk
      Myth 1: "Ruby has existed for like 20 years. If it were a good idea someone would have done it already." Reality: Not that many people actually work on Ruby profilers! Those people have different priorities and interests than me!
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    2. yan‏ @bcrypt Apr 14

      Take this passage from a summary of Eliezer Yudkowsky's book (https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3535 ). IMO one "authoritative institution" that has created a lot of inadequate equilibria in software development is Silicon Valley culture and its focus on rampant growth.pic.twitter.com/AzwPEI6YT6

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    3. yan‏ @bcrypt Apr 14

      growth is often at odds with security/privacy/robustness, so those are subfields of software development where a newcomer can potentially make high-impact contributions (things that obviously should be done but nobody has done yet due to the incentives being screwed up)

      2 replies 51 retweets 237 likes
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    4. Rich Felker‏ @RichFelker Apr 14
      Replying to @bcrypt

      What makes it hard & unrewarding is that, without huge amounts of work keeping up with growth in requirements/expectations, there's a high risk your better solution becomes irrelevant.

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    5. Rich Felker‏ @RichFelker Apr 14
      Replying to @RichFelker @bcrypt

      I feel like that's what happened with every single attempt to do a new browser from scratch (as opposed to forking an existing one).

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    6. William D. Jones‏ @cr1901 Apr 14
      Replying to @RichFelker @bcrypt

      There will never be a another successful browser from scratch. A browser in 2018 is one of, if not _the_ most complicated pieces of software on the planet with many moving parts and interactions. The work to gain critical mass will be obsolete by the time you have an MVP.

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    7. Asa Dotzler‏ @asadotzler Apr 16
      Replying to @cr1901 @RichFelker @bcrypt

      I think it's possible. There are several companies with the resources to do it who have material interest in browsers and haven't yet because they're relying on other browsers' engines. Samsung, Amazon, Alibaba, probably a couple others.

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      Rich Felker‏ @RichFelker Apr 17
      Replying to @asadotzler @cr1901 @bcrypt

      Any big company like that doing it is going to make something astronomically worse than what we're stuck with now.

      7:55 AM - 17 Apr 2018
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