A Tale As Old As Software

Behold the digital archeology exhibit of peak internet culture! That silhouette is bowing to the holy relics of an era when Clippy was your most reliable therapist and your MySpace Top 8 determined your social worth. Remember installing Windows from 12 separate CDs? Or when Flash games were the pinnacle of procrastination technology? This was computing before everything became a subscription service with rounded corners and minimalist icons. Back when "this is not a virus" was definitely a virus, MSN status messages were Shakespearean poetry, and Neopets taught an entire generation about digital pet neglect and basic HTML. The raw, unfiltered chaos of early web design was beautiful in its ugliness—like finding art in a dumpster fire.

Content Jeff Bezos and Sundar Pichai follow Yann LeCun ylecun Hotter take: ML would have advanced faster if another front-end language had been available and widely adopted instead of Python. One that is interactive yet fast compilable, multithreaded (no GIL), isn't bloated, doesn't care about white spaces,.. E.g. Julia or some Lisp. 1 Bojan Tunguz tunguz 1d Hot take: Machine Learning would not have been nearly as advanced now were it not for Python. Python's two main virtues in the context of ML: 6:57 pm 22 Feb 23 1.3M Views 357 Retweets 162 Quotes 3,037 Likes ProdrammerHumor.io

Expectation: "Lightweight and performant, just the way I like it." *smiles in Mr. Incredible* Reality: *horrified face* as your "simple" app balloons from 25MB to a monstrous 739MB. Nothing says "modern web development" quite like shipping an entire Chrome browser with your calculator app. Your 2GB RAM laptop is sweating nervously in the corner while you explain to users that your "lightweight" app just needs a quick 800MB download. But hey, at least it's cross-platform!

Content Sebastian Ramirez tiangolo I saw a job post the other day. It required 4 years of experience in FastAPI. I couldn't apply as I only have 1.5 years of experience since I created that thing. Maybe it's time to re-evaluate that "years of experience skill level" 9:40 AM Jul 11, 2020 Twitter Web App ProdrammerHumor.io

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