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> Software is solving much more difficult problems than ever before thanks to this evolution to higher abstractions. Please prove that. :-) Most of what I see
by pnathan 15y ago
> Software is solving much more difficult problems than ever before thanks to this evolution to higher abstractions.
Please prove that. :-)
Most of what I see is reskinned GUIs from the early 80s... first on Mac OS, then on Windows, then on OSX, then on Linux, then on the Web, then on handsets...
more pixels per inch != more essentially complex.
big data was being handled by bank mainframes in the 1970s (the original cloud computing. :o).
- cageface 15y agoNatural language processing, image and speech recognition, vastly more powerful media creation tools, much much more complicated games, increasingly useful recommendation systems, data processing on previously unimaginable scales. The list goes on and on and on. I can't imagine how anyone could seriously argue that we're not leagues ahead of where we were in the 70s.
- gaius 15y agoIs a modern game really more engrossing than Elite, that I still play 25 years later? No, modern computing power is squandered on bells and whistles. The industry has stagnated since the 80s.
- cageface 15y agoI often play the grumpy old technology curmudgeon role but you've handily outdone me here. Well played, sir! I used to play Elite too and, while it had some unique qualities, it wouldn't compete with any of the better modern titles for my attention now.