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Making things easy is the problem. It's been long known in secret societies, that guarding entry through a solvable but hard entry barrier makes it more rewardi
by ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago
Making things easy is the problem. It's been long known in secret societies, that guarding entry through a solvable but hard entry barrier makes it more rewarding for those who do make it through and the ones already inside. In programming, we have tried to make everything easy: JavaScript everywhere. Electron everywhere. Slow code everywhere. No need to think about memory of cpu cycles at all. The result is piles of crap like Microsoft products and Slack and hackers are the minority.
- mrits 3y agoIn some ways things are a lot harder. In the early 90s I was able to borrow Turbo C from my brother. He gave me a pointer to video memory and I could use math to draw stuff. I was making stuff in a few minutes.
- ilrwbwrkhv 3y agoyes but they enjoy that. there is a reason why notion and things have gotten so popular. people love to pretend they are doing hard shit, when all they are doing is faffing around. react is the textbook definition of faffing around. useHooks. Jesus Christ. What a waste of time.
- klibertp 3y agoWhich secret society has seen 4 decades of "it it breathes and codes, it's hired" business climate with hundreds of billions of dollars behind? It's not like anyone wanted for the September to last for eternity, it just had to happen given the situation.