most of what upsets people about software is a result of how, making it, you almost always have the choice between "do dozens of interesting things that will mostly work until they don't" and "do one useful, prosaic thing that will work much more reliably than the other things"
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"but still not fucking reliably enough to make people happy"
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Chaos Retweeted Valentine Frobisher
sorry everyone, there's another option that i forgot about: you can also spend your time on flashy toys whose reliability is irrelevant because nothing of significance relies on them, then hop on Twitter to wave your dick around about ithttps://twitter.com/harrisonpartch/status/1120847380105056256 …
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wow did you just subtweet the entire video game industry
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i think you did but im just some guy who is largely concerned with pretty pixels all the real engineers i work woth would be throwing rocks at me right now
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i also might have indulged in a bit of hyperbole aimed at one guy being high and mighty about his pixels who annoyed me
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