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You Don't Need Millions of Dollars

35 points by Reedx 7y ago

dragontamer 7y ago
A bit of a tangent but... > The guys at id had figured that all out twenty seven years ago. Those sounds you hear in the distance are a little bit of history repeating. (Editor's Note: "little bit of history repeating" is hyperlinked in original article) Hmm... I write links similarly to Atwood here, but I'm now scared of link rot. The hyperlink goes to a Youtube video that is no longer available, so I feel like I'm missing a bit of context from this paragraph. Looking at the blogpost, it is now 7 years old. On the one hand, a blogpost probably isn't written to stand the test of time. But on the other hand, here we are today rereading this blogpost from 7 years ago, so in someways, this blogpost has stood the test of time. Fortunately: the core point of the blogpost is working well. But it does make you think about linkrot over the course of 7 years.
- c22 7y ago
  At any given time I have 100+ tabs open representing various lines of ongoing research. I've noticed link rot has gotten much worse over the last decade, to the point where I go through my tabs at least once a month now just to close the 404s of which there are always several. These links are rotting on the order of weeks/months, not even years. I notice it most frequently on pages that are selling something, I wonder if this is the result of some misguided SEO tactic. Might as well start linking directly to the archive.org copy of content you want to make sense in a couple years.
Grustaf 7y ago
Isn’t this guy a billionaire though? At least he would be if he kept his stake in StackExchange.
growlist 7y ago
> and two dozen open source frameworks and libraries that can do 90% of the work for you. You have GitHub, Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, and the whole of the Internet. And this is part of the problem for me - there is simply too much happening to keep track of and to make decisions about what to learn.
- dragontamer 7y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass > ...a man, being just as hungry as thirsty, and placed in between food and drink, must necessarily remain where he is and starve to death. > — Aristotle, On the Heavens 295b, c. 350 BC -------- The paradox of choice is: the more choices we have, the LESS IMPORTANT that choice becomes. Instead of sitting still and starving, it is more important to "make a choice" rather than debate over which choice to make. A more solid example: PyGame, SFML and SDL do the same job, instead of debating which one to use... you should just pick one (even at random) and then complete your task. Rather than debate over the pros / cons of each framework.
  - growlist 7y ago
    Well ish - but I'd still prefer to learn something that will still be relevant in future, given the chance.

35 points by Reedx 7y ago

A bit of a tangent but... > The guys at id had figured that all out twenty seven years ago. Those sounds you hear in the distance are a little bit of history repeating. (Editor's Note: "little bit of history repeating" is hyperlinked in original article) Hmm... I write links similarly to Atwood here, but I'm now scared of link rot. The hyperlink goes to a Youtube video that is no longer available, so I feel like I'm missing a bit of context from this paragraph. Looking at the blogpost, it is now 7 years old. On the one hand, a blogpost probably isn't written to stand the test of time. But on the other hand, here we are today rereading this blogpost from 7 years ago, so in someways, this blogpost has stood the test of time. Fortunately: the core point of the blogpost is working well. But it does make you think about linkrot over the course of 7 years.

c22 7y ago
At any given time I have 100+ tabs open representing various lines of ongoing research. I've noticed link rot has gotten much worse over the last decade, to the point where I go through my tabs at least once a month now just to close the 404s of which there are always several. These links are rotting on the order of weeks/months, not even years. I notice it most frequently on pages that are selling something, I wonder if this is the result of some misguided SEO tactic. Might as well start linking directly to the archive.org copy of content you want to make sense in a couple years.

Grustaf 7y ago

Isn’t this guy a billionaire though? At least he would be if he kept his stake in StackExchange.

growlist 7y ago

> and two dozen open source frameworks and libraries that can do 90% of the work for you. You have GitHub, Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, and the whole of the Internet. And this is part of the problem for me - there is simply too much happening to keep track of and to make decisions about what to learn.

dragontamer 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass > ...a man, being just as hungry as thirsty, and placed in between food and drink, must necessarily remain where he is and starve to death. > — Aristotle, On the Heavens 295b, c. 350 BC -------- The paradox of choice is: the more choices we have, the LESS IMPORTANT that choice becomes. Instead of sitting still and starving, it is more important to "make a choice" rather than debate over which choice to make. A more solid example: PyGame, SFML and SDL do the same job, instead of debating which one to use... you should just pick one (even at random) and then complete your task. Rather than debate over the pros / cons of each framework.
- growlist 7y ago
  Well ish - but I'd still prefer to learn something that will still be relevant in future, given the chance.