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> Cloud providers should admit they’re basically mainframes and write an operating system instead of the ad-hoc collection of horse shit they foist on developer
by JohnJamesRambo 5y ago
> Cloud providers should admit they’re basically mainframes and write an operating system instead of the ad-hoc collection of horse shit they foist on developers.
Oh I like this one so much. I love the era and idea of the mainframe. I caught the tail end of it in college. Our research professors would send their statistics jobs over to the mainframe and get the dot matrix printouts back showing what treatments showed significance. Maybe I watched Tron too much too. I just love the idea of one big central computer doing all the processing.
- bigiain 5y ago> I just love the idea of one big central computer doing all the processing. And yet at the same time, having a super computer in my pocket is spectacularly cool!
- hulitu 5y agoWhich can only siphon your data and play games.
- bigiain 5y agoYou can run your own code on your phone. Even iOS lets you do that (I don’t even think you need to lay the apple developer fees to do that?) You just can’t widely distributed it in easy for other people to run form. You _can_ give your friends .apk files. You _can_ write iOS apps that violate App Store rules. It’s the “publishing” bit that is locked down.