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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 21
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    I think if you took software developers from 1998 and brought them to 2020 they'd think that software is blazingly fast when written ("Only *weeks* between releases? You're kidding!") and blazingly slow from a user interaction perspective ("Did a war stop Moore's Law?!")

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      1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 21
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        Not to be the hipster Unix guy who thinks all true software is accessible from a text-based terminal, but it's basically crazymaking to me that it takes longer for me to load Gmail, compose, and send an email than it took me to do the same thing with Pine 20+ years ago.

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      1.  🦔‏ @hedgehog_emoji May 21
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        1998 dev: You have cross-platform apps on every platform, even Linux? That's awesome, how did you do it? Did Java win? How did you solve performance problems and non-native GUI? 2020 dev: *bursts into tears*

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      2. (((Rachel Blum)))‏ @groby May 21
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        Hi, Software developer from 1998 here. No, we wouldn't. We managed to ship on short cadences just fine, if the scope/team size relationship was conducive to that. We were also well aware of the dev time/efficiency tradeoffs.

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      3. (((Rachel Blum)))‏ @groby May 21
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        We did, however, glorify the past just equally. Those things you could do on machines with 64K RAM, and the youth just wasting megabytes. (If we were from an earlier period, we'd mumble about paper tape and 128 byte RAM, but same difference)

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      2. mattbillenstein‏ @mattbillenstein May 21
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        It's crazy to me how bloated the typical frontend stack has gotten - waiting for server-rendered webapps to make a comeback.

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      3. Miguel Acevedo‏ @miglets80 May 21
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        Luckily next.js is promising.

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      1. Steven Walsh‏ @StevenPWalsh May 21
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        Can we also talk about how my music player takes up almost a GB of memory, and my chat app is well over.

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      2. Darren Devitt‏ @darren_devitt May 21
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        The Google homepage is the clearest indicator of the slow-down in recent years to me. Way back, you could hit the homepage button and start typing a search query. Try that today and you lose the first word of your query as the input box won't have focus fast enough. Improvement?

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      3. Stian Håklev (侯爽)‏ @houshuang May 21
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        Does anyone actually go to the homepage to search?

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      2. craigsuperstar‏ @craigsuperstar May 21
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        Not a war. It only took a single Electron.

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      3. tzj‏ @thetimmyjose May 22
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        Hahaha!

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