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Every tech product you use came out between '00-'10. Nothing was built from 2010

1 points by jmeister 4y ago

mikkergp 4y ago
Apple Watch was released in 2015 On March 28, 2016, the first consumer version of Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift "CV1", was released. Rivians just started shipping. Electric scooters “Hoverboards” Those rent a bike kiosks seem pretty recent Full-Self-Driving beta today.
- sn0w_crash 4y ago
  Hoverboards are dead. Some people riding them are dead too. Scooters are neither new nor innovative. They’ve just been monetized. on the verge of being banned in France, while Bird’s market cap is $50. A rent a bike kiosk is a technical innovation? The Oculus Rift was a great MVP that fleeced Zuckerberg for $3B and is now potentially killing Facebook. No one actually uses these things. Nothing meaningful has been built since 2010.
  - mikkergp 4y ago
    > Nothing meaningful has been built since 2010 Original post said nothing, not nothing meaningful. I can’t disagree with “nothing meaningful” because it’s subjective. Also, innovation isn’t just about the thing that work: Thomas Edison, an American inventor who invented the lightbulb in the early 1900s once said: “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
jleyank 4y ago
I don’t know. Apple watches are pretty neat. Chip design and performance has gotten better over the last decade, although it’s harder to program in parallel than scalar. There’s been a tremendous development of web tools and frameworks, recapitulating in a way the Xserver environment. And we don’t know what fiddly bit of academic or hacker software will turn out to be new and exciting. Or which hardware startup will deliver its promise. And ai/ml development, while not new, has become far more significant even concerning. And I assume you’re limiting the discussion to the computer biz as biotech/pharma has continued to do its thing as before. Aside from the mba’s, it’s not the things you mention that are the problem. It’s the vc’s and their money. Selling ads, harvesting data and “social media” have consumed the talents of gobs of developers. And to what end? Complain about how the last decade has eroded privacy and increased corporate and government power and you’d have a better argument.
lantry 4y ago
says the guy who thinks search is done in the browser https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1595270867402956801 https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/159527086740295680...
- sn0w_crash 4y ago
  People on HN seem to love to “dunk on” others over some technicality. I see this a lot from engineers in real life too.

1 points by jmeister 4y ago

Apple Watch was released in 2015 On March 28, 2016, the first consumer version of Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift "CV1", was released. Rivians just started shipping. Electric scooters “Hoverboards” Those rent a bike kiosks seem pretty recent Full-Self-Driving beta today.

sn0w_crash 4y ago
Hoverboards are dead. Some people riding them are dead too. Scooters are neither new nor innovative. They’ve just been monetized. on the verge of being banned in France, while Bird’s market cap is $50. A rent a bike kiosk is a technical innovation? The Oculus Rift was a great MVP that fleeced Zuckerberg for $3B and is now potentially killing Facebook. No one actually uses these things. Nothing meaningful has been built since 2010.
- mikkergp 4y ago
  > Nothing meaningful has been built since 2010 Original post said nothing, not nothing meaningful. I can’t disagree with “nothing meaningful” because it’s subjective. Also, innovation isn’t just about the thing that work: Thomas Edison, an American inventor who invented the lightbulb in the early 1900s once said: “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

jleyank 4y ago

I don’t know. Apple watches are pretty neat. Chip design and performance has gotten better over the last decade, although it’s harder to program in parallel than scalar. There’s been a tremendous development of web tools and frameworks, recapitulating in a way the Xserver environment. And we don’t know what fiddly bit of academic or hacker software will turn out to be new and exciting. Or which hardware startup will deliver its promise. And ai/ml development, while not new, has become far more significant even concerning. And I assume you’re limiting the discussion to the computer biz as biotech/pharma has continued to do its thing as before. Aside from the mba’s, it’s not the things you mention that are the problem. It’s the vc’s and their money. Selling ads, harvesting data and “social media” have consumed the talents of gobs of developers. And to what end? Complain about how the last decade has eroded privacy and increased corporate and government power and you’d have a better argument.

lantry 4y ago

says the guy who thinks search is done in the browser https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1595270867402956801 https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/159527086740295680...

sn0w_crash 4y ago
People on HN seem to love to “dunk on” others over some technicality. I see this a lot from engineers in real life too.