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If you ever needed proof of the negativity in the tech community, this thread is it. Google actually delivers a real world product incorporating the most advan
by avinium 8y ago
If you ever needed proof of the negativity in the tech community, this thread is it.
Google actually delivers a real world product incorporating the most advanced AI we've had the chance to experience, and half the HackerNews comments are "Wow, this is so dumb, can't wait for it to become technical debt in 10 years".
- zbentley 8y agoOne time, a giant tech company staffed by geniuses released a super-useful tool that saw massive adoption. 10 years later that tool became technical debt. Wait, it was way less than 10 years. I'm talking about Google Realtime. Or reader? Or buzz? No, wait, I'm talking about aggressive Twitter API deprecation/removal. Wait, nevermind, I'm talking about Facebook. You get the idea. What's revolutionary today sometimes becomes the substrate for future innovation. Sometimes it gets cast by the wayside, even in the face of significant "user" (developer) popularity. That's not proof of negativity; just realism. Negativity would be "no new innovation will ever get traction". Optimism would be "all new technologies will change the world" (c.f. https://www.npmjs.com/browse/depended https://www.npmjs.com/browse/depended). This is neither.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoBecause idea of running machine2machine communication through Duplex, going binary -> text -> voice -> text -> binary, is just fucking dumb. It's not proof of negativity in the tech community. If anything, it's a proof that tech community often can't pause and look if a particular idea makes engineering sense. That's how we ended up with Electron.