It'd been a while since I was a part of a good ol' fashioned Internet Pile-On. Here's more context on my @ppk tweet: http://www.holovaty.com/writing/ppk-talk/ …
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@adrianholovaty@ppk here, he's saying: 1. the problem is that the requirements that people have are overly ambitious, and 1/pic.twitter.com/E6z0w1kK65
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they should be less ambitious, because their goals are just impossible. 2. once they're less ambitious, they will 2/
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realize that lower-ambition goals can be achieved with simpler tools. 3/
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The original sin of this line of reasoning is the creation of a bogus "emulating native" straw-man that justifies 4/
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dismissal of the entire category of tools that enable larger, more sophisticated, and more ambitious applications on 5/
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the web. But this line of reasoning simply fails to grapple with where these requirements *come from*, instead choosing 6/
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to disparage developers for "chasing shiny". The reality is that the web is a perfectly suitable place for ambitious, 7/
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sophisticated applications, and people who want to build those applications are tired of the barrage of shaming they are 8/
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