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Seems a lot of words to express the underwhelming hypothesis that "Software is bad because young people are overstimulated". OK - I'm being snarky but I can't

Seems a lot of words to express the underwhelming hypothesis that "Software is bad because young people are overstimulated". OK - I'm being snarky but I can't see much meat in this essay. Or much novelty. It's fairly standard greybeard fare. As a fellow greybeard I often have similar thoughts - but I'd probably wait until I was struck by a touch more novelty or insight before I chose to post them online.

V-2 3y ago
Not exactly a true greybeard though, given that the author has "more than 10 years of experience", and judging by the picture on his GitHub page ;) [0] [0] https://github.com/LaurentiuGabriel https://github.com/LaurentiuGabriel
- thejohnconway 3y ago
  Ah, that might explain why he doesn't know how bat software was in the 90s!
  - bryanrasmussen 3y ago
    Holy CDs John Conway, that bat software in the 90s was worst!
    - readthenotes1 3y ago
      Good grief. Back in my day, people used to Mark X in sharpies on the top of the card decks so when they (ineluctably) got dropped it'd be easier to re-assemble. You kids didn't know how lucky you were.
thejohnconway 3y ago
While I am frustrated by the state of modern software, this article fails to acknowledge what has got better. My daily software used to crash several times a day in the late 90s/ early 2000s. Hope you saved your work, because here’s was no auto save or anything like that. Software was so unreliable the idea of something like a browser or an image editor running for days would have seemed like a fantasy. (Nearly) show-stopping bugs would hang around for months or years. My hypothesis is that software is facing normal tech/feature pressure around network features which are difficult to solve with local applications, and economic and social pressure to keep adding features, which is leading to enshittification.
vmfunction 3y ago
I get what you are saying. I do agree with the sentiments of the title. With so much increase in CPU speed, why do the software runs about the same and sometimes slower? Many says it is GUI/GPU? Then I would rather be using 256 color terminal screen with cursor support.

V-2 3y ago

Not exactly a true greybeard though, given that the author has "more than 10 years of experience", and judging by the picture on his GitHub page ;) [0] [0] https://github.com/LaurentiuGabriel https://github.com/LaurentiuGabriel

thejohnconway 3y ago
Ah, that might explain why he doesn't know how bat software was in the 90s!
- bryanrasmussen 3y ago
  Holy CDs John Conway, that bat software in the 90s was worst!
  - readthenotes1 3y ago
    Good grief. Back in my day, people used to Mark X in sharpies on the top of the card decks so when they (ineluctably) got dropped it'd be easier to re-assemble. You kids didn't know how lucky you were.

thejohnconway 3y ago

While I am frustrated by the state of modern software, this article fails to acknowledge what has got better. My daily software used to crash several times a day in the late 90s/ early 2000s. Hope you saved your work, because here’s was no auto save or anything like that. Software was so unreliable the idea of something like a browser or an image editor running for days would have seemed like a fantasy. (Nearly) show-stopping bugs would hang around for months or years. My hypothesis is that software is facing normal tech/feature pressure around network features which are difficult to solve with local applications, and economic and social pressure to keep adding features, which is leading to enshittification.

vmfunction 3y ago

I get what you are saying. I do agree with the sentiments of the title. With so much increase in CPU speed, why do the software runs about the same and sometimes slower? Many says it is GUI/GPU? Then I would rather be using 256 color terminal screen with cursor support.