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Good pivot and a humbling reminder for us all. Jonathan Blow on the day this was announced, "Very hard to describe how embarrassing this is for everyone involve

by memish 4y ago

Good pivot and a humbling reminder for us all. Jonathan Blow on the day this was announced, "Very hard to describe how embarrassing this is for everyone involved in the Web and, sort of, software more generally." https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1387094702139142145 https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1387094702139142145 > Wait, Paul Graham supported this? Jonathan: Very vocally, to the point of insulting world-class programmers who think it’s dumb (he did not know said programmers were world-class). > Huh, I see. I thought he's all pro elegant and lean solutions, judging by the books and articles at least. Jonathan: Yeah it doesn't make sense to me either.

Dreako 4y ago
This happens to literally every startup tho
- modeless 4y ago
  With different people each time. And some of the people are on the correct side more often than others. It's useful to check afterward and update your priors on who you should be listening to.
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hn_throwaway_99 4y ago
Hmm, I'm not quite sure how to interpret Jonathan Blow's tweet. You seem to be saying that he is saying that the Mighty project itself is embarrassing, while I took it to mean the fact that today's beefy computers, with all their CPU and RAM, struggle to render web pages to the point that someone is considering doing a rube-goldberg-esque solution of rendering on a mainframe-equivalent and then streaming you the results is the part that's embarrassing.
- modeless 4y ago
  Yes, and from that perspective the fact that it didn't work and nobody actually wanted it seems to indicate that it shouldn't have been embarrassing after all.
raverbashing 4y ago
And of course he was right: "My hope is that what makes this temporary is that it will not actually work better than most peoples' laptops." https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1387121451187118080 https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1387121451187118080

by memish 4y ago

Dreako 4y ago

This happens to literally every startup tho

modeless 4y ago
With different people each time. And some of the people are on the correct side more often than others. It's useful to check afterward and update your priors on who you should be listening to.

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hn_throwaway_99 4y ago

Hmm, I'm not quite sure how to interpret Jonathan Blow's tweet. You seem to be saying that he is saying that the Mighty project itself is embarrassing, while I took it to mean the fact that today's beefy computers, with all their CPU and RAM, struggle to render web pages to the point that someone is considering doing a rube-goldberg-esque solution of rendering on a mainframe-equivalent and then streaming you the results is the part that's embarrassing.

modeless 4y ago
Yes, and from that perspective the fact that it didn't work and nobody actually wanted it seems to indicate that it shouldn't have been embarrassing after all.

raverbashing 4y ago

And of course he was right: "My hope is that what makes this temporary is that it will not actually work better than most peoples' laptops." https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1387121451187118080 https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1387121451187118080