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> We've regressed to the point where 5KiB of text comes with 2MiB of crap, meaning a noise to signal ratio of 26dB which is insane! Unfortunately that's what t

> We've regressed to the point where 5KiB of text comes with 2MiB of crap, meaning a noise to signal ratio of 26dB which is insane! Unfortunately that's what the average layman wants. They want the SPA experience. That's what they want to pay for. What kind of professional am I if I don't give people what they want to pay for? > I've even had enough of building things on the web. It is a horrible horrible thing to have to do. I envy system programmers who never see the pain of trying to keep a very large web application secure at even a basic level. I build and maintain full stack web applications for my day job. Man, is it a pain. Between the database setup, server setup, back end application, front end application, security concerns, and browser compatibility issues, I rarely get to spend any time at all working on the business logic. Seriously, modern web development is 90% chasing down bugs, security enforcement, and fixing compatibility issues. Writing the business logic is the easy part.

singingboyo 9y ago
>Seriously, modern web development is 90% chasing down bugs, security enforcement, and fixing compatibility issues. That's true of most modern development. It might be more painful on the web, I wouldn't know, but systems programming is not really any different.
- scriptkiddy 9y ago
  I think the only real difference is that, generally speaking, systems programming standards and best practices don't change weekly. Or, maybe they do. I don't work in that field professionally.
pseudalopex 9y ago
> Unfortunately that's what the average layman wants. They want the SPA experience. What about that experience do they want, and how do you know they want it? Engagement metrics can make auto-playing video look like a great idea, but people dislike it enough that browsers are starting to block it.

singingboyo 9y ago

>Seriously, modern web development is 90% chasing down bugs, security enforcement, and fixing compatibility issues. That's true of most modern development. It might be more painful on the web, I wouldn't know, but systems programming is not really any different.

scriptkiddy 9y ago
I think the only real difference is that, generally speaking, systems programming standards and best practices don't change weekly. Or, maybe they do. I don't work in that field professionally.

pseudalopex 9y ago

> Unfortunately that's what the average layman wants. They want the SPA experience. What about that experience do they want, and how do you know they want it? Engagement metrics can make auto-playing video look like a great idea, but people dislike it enough that browsers are starting to block it.