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"The Birth and Death of Javascript" becomes more and more real https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript https://www.destroyal
by ihuman 8y ago
"The Birth and Death of Javascript" becomes more and more real
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
- enraged_camel 8y agoI like the part about the Bay Area being a radioactive wasteland. :)
- Analemma_ 8y agoTechnically, he only said it was an "Exclusion Zone", so it could refer to real estate prices in the 2035 Bay Area for non-quadrillionaires.
- RightMillennial 8y agoFallout: New Francisco
- ndesaulniers 8y agoWe're firmly within NCR territory here.
- IgorPartola 8y agoThe Hobologists send their regards.
- earenndil 8y agoI still don't buy it. Javascript might buy a 4% performance improvement, but the increased resource usage makes that impractical for most scenarios. For server use, the increased wear makes it cheaper to buy more computers and have them last longer. For application use, performance is not relevant enough to make it interesting. So really the only possible application is video games. EDIT: before people accuse me of making a false dichotomy: I acknowledge that there are other uses for computers, but am unable to think of any others where the increased resource consumption would be worth it. Another thing: cell phones, the battery would drain much more quickly if everything were a webapp. Perhaps video game consoles will switch to such a JIT, though...
- IgorPartola 8y agoI mean Bitcoin is pretty much built on “increased resource consumption is worth it”. But I get your point.
- keymone 8y agoIt’s not. It’s built on “here’s a way to convert energy into financial security and have a transaction platform on top of it”.
- empthought 8y agoAny person in the situation where “financial security” based on government-issued currency is tenuous enough to make cryptocurrency an attractive option is either 1. doing something illegal, or 2. would be better off with access to the energy used. “There are no financial instruments that will protect you from a world where we no longer trust each other.” https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2018/01/02/why-bitcoin-is-stupid/ https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2018/01/02/why-bitcoin-is-st...
- keymone 8y agothere are 3 assertions here and they are all dumb. first two aren't even about cryptocurrencies - every currency is more attractive than bolivar in Venezuela these days. i guess all those people are doing something illegal (surviving?) or will be better off with electricity (spoiler alert - they already have electricity). the last one is even dumber and coming from supposedly somebody who should know their way around finances and yet quotes like the one you posted or this one: > These are preposterous numbers. The imaginary value of these valueless bits of computer data represents enough money to change the course of the entire human race, for example eliminating all poverty or replacing the entire world’s 800 gigawatts of coal power plants with solar generation. Why? WHY??? just show how clueless he is. there is a gigantic difference between not trusting and not having to trust. and of course market cap numbers are preposterous. it's because they are meaningless and don't represent anything that exists in reality. not the amount of money that was spent acquiring those currencies, not the amount of money that can be made selling those currencies. it's meaningless numbers.