Ambitious software (barring exceptions like bitcoin) need vast datasets, cloud-scale compute ($$$), PhD colleagues versed in esoterica etc.
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Replying to @vgr @kylemathews and
The analogy to writing is false. Software is fundamentally a systems-and-teams sport. A better analogy is to legal institutions
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Google's search infrastructure is more like the knowledge base represented in US judicial system case law than like a novel.
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huh, interesting analogy
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but yeah, great software is a few original ideas combined with an enormous heap of "case law" aka bug fixes, UX tweaks, etc.
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Things are changing, but the small teams that build ambitious things are still mostly embedded inside the hearts of big ecosystems
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Replying to @vgr @kylemathews and
Wondering if small teams building big things outside big ecosystems did so having operated at scale first and now know where they're going
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Replying to @alexqgb @kylemathews and
I think Gall's Law applies. They happen to find things that can start simple, and scale at a rate that your learning can keep pace with.
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How about open source? What makes ambitious software not decomposable into smaller projects? Couldn't internet itself be one?
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Replying to @fortelabs @alexqgb and
Internet was not open source, it emerged st the heart of darpa remember. Open source has had some stellar original hits, but generally...
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...is a late stage re-imagining of an existing category, like unix --> linux, photoshop --> gimp etc 90%, and has no incentives for b2b sw
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Replying to @vgr @fortelabs and
That view is a bit dated. Many new large corporate software efforts are open source these days to share dev costs across companies.
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Replying to @kylemathews @fortelabs and
True, but that's more open source going corporate than corps going open source afaict
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