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Same question can be asked about any iterative technology. "Why are those computer scientists so goddamn clever? Math is just numbers, why can we not just live
by Piskvorrr 11y ago
Same question can be asked about any iterative technology. "Why are those computer scientists so goddamn clever? Math is just numbers, why can we not just live with that, why do we need to build on top of it? What has the invention of writing ever done for us?"
- justaaron 11y agodo you think that's a fair summary of what i posted? I don't. please try to understand the actual proposal/argument in lieu of constructing straw-people. Let me be clearer: why are we accepting this continual repurposing of something for what it wasn't designed for in lieu of moving onward? do you think the web just dropped from the sky one day? the web is based on http over port 80 server and client have been more or less defined. one can keep tacking things onto it awkwardly but it's a hack... I don't expect people from inside the web-builder bubble to necessarily get it, as they will regard all the new hoops to jump through as necessary, and the way of the herd to be just and good... I just hope that after 20+ years in this industry, you will also consider questioning things a bit...
- Piskvorrr 11y agoYes. Next summary: "Oh, me so enlightened; wake up, web-sheeple! I am the only one with 20 years of experience."
- justaaron 11y agoto be clear: I regard the iteration on web technologies not as some kind of progress, but rather as blind trendiness and rampant wheel-reinvention... i can think of countless examples where we have come full-circle, even a decade ago...