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wondering about everything • coding & cat-herding at @makerdao • existence precedes essence—or does it? ☯

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    1. Tim Wu‏Verified account @superwuster 28 Jan 2019
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      I am really fascinated by the fact that a computer with 1000x faster processor and 100x more memory than 20 years ago can still feel slower, because of ads, bloatware, lazy programming -- it seems to capture the strengths and weaknesses of humanity in a nutshell

      89 replies 1,063 retweets 3,742 likes
    2. technicat‏ @fugugames 28 Jan 2019
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      I’m not a fan of the term “lazy programming.” I’ve heard enough of that from people who don’t know anything about programming.

      2 replies 2 retweets 16 likes
    3. Tim Wu‏Verified account @superwuster 28 Jan 2019
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      In the old days, lazy programming = anything that isn't in assembly

      2 replies 1 retweet 21 likes
    4. Lawrus‏ @levity 28 Jan 2019
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      You’re not going to find anyone who can write Twitter in assembly no matter how much you can pay.

      2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
    5. Janne Johansson‏ @IcePic_dz 29 Jan 2019
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      Except you will: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZK9aGQkk9w … (ok, parts might be C, but it still runs on a 1983 computer with less than 64k ram to go for tcp/ip and the twitter client). All of Con-tiki for 8bit cpus is quite awesome. Worth checking out if you use the word "impossible" a lot.

      2 replies 4 retweets 13 likes
    6. Lawrus‏ @levity 29 Jan 2019
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      That’s fricken awesome—and I’m talking about the backend of Twitter too. Everything from the tweet database, to ops tools for load balancing & scaling, to tools for non-tech employees to manage TOS violation reports.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    7. Lawrus‏ @levity 29 Jan 2019
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      Yes, you could theoretically write all that in assembly. But it’s completely economically unfeasible. I mean, Twitter Lite was written with react-native-web. You try telling @necolas that was “lazy programming”. https://twitter.com/necolas/status/1089911402838482944?s=20 …

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    8. Janne Johansson‏ @IcePic_dz 29 Jan 2019
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      I think it's mostly a matter of another kind of economics, basically what "we" pay for. If we keep promoting half-baked whipped-together-in-an-afternoon with "its ok for a chat client to use 1G ram per group I am on", then we end up where we are now, even if it could be less.

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    9. Lawrus‏ @levity 29 Jan 2019
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      The tricky thing is, the things that make half-baked software possible also make programming accessible to more people. “Whipped-together-in-an-afternoon” can lead to “Making products for an underserved group” or “Democratized innovation”.

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    10. Janne Johansson‏ @IcePic_dz 29 Jan 2019
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      Sure. If twitter requires all of 64k ram and 36 year old tech instead of a core i7 and 16 g ram then you could bet it would be accessible to millions more around the globe. It would be less animated reactions and more '160 chars' but still.. Now, dl leftpad for the 189k'th time

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      Lawrus‏ @levity 30 Jan 2019
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      That would be great; I encourage you to try to make it happen :)

      9:28 AM - 30 Jan 2019
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