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> What is this obsession with the past and the early days of computing? Sure, no need to study history. Just pull to refresh every second and don't remember an

by zx8080 3y ago

> What is this obsession with the past and the early days of computing? Sure, no need to study history. Just pull to refresh every second and don't remember anything. And also, defund the national archives too, they are apparently useless. /s

underlogic 3y ago
No this group wastes so much time trying to relive the 70's and 80's they're missing an even greater paradigm shift unfolding right here and now. Someone has to say enough with the tinkering already. It's a waste of time. Yesterday's people are dead. Not relevant - dead and gone. That party's over, move on. This is not healthy
- AllegedAlec 3y ago
  Gross computer nerds refuse to learn from the past and keep reinventing the triangular wheel every 20 minutes. More news at eleven.
- jumelles 3y ago
  I'm infinitely thankful most people don't think like this. History is a treasure.
- pushedx 3y ago
  Computing systems are built in layers. The text field that you used to write that comment has a rendering layer that was only universally present across devices and operating systems about 8 years ago. We are now operating in an environment where the average programmer is writing using frameworks on top of frameworks, on top of libraries, on top of SDKs, on top of containers, on top of VMs, on top of OSs, on top of hypervisors, on top of kernels, on top of microcode, and that's collapsing a bunch of the layers. To have any hope of explaining to the next generation how many of the truly beautiful and fun aspects of computing systems operate, you need to strip away many of these layers. A great way to do that is with old systems where the layers didn't exist.
- indymike 3y ago
  > No this group wastes so much time trying to relive the 70's and 80's they're missing an even greater paradigm shift "<Sigh>if you only knew." - Guy who did his capstone project on neural networks and computer vision in the 80s.
- philipswood 3y ago
  To understand fully where the encoding of the text your comment is written in comes from requires you to go all the way back to the telegraph line... If you use a CLI - you need to go back to at least teletypes. Not everyone needs to be concerned with this, but the historical examples of cultures that have throw away their history don't look too encouraging.

by zx8080 3y ago

underlogic 3y ago

No this group wastes so much time trying to relive the 70's and 80's they're missing an even greater paradigm shift unfolding right here and now. Someone has to say enough with the tinkering already. It's a waste of time. Yesterday's people are dead. Not relevant - dead and gone. That party's over, move on. This is not healthy

AllegedAlec 3y ago
Gross computer nerds refuse to learn from the past and keep reinventing the triangular wheel every 20 minutes. More news at eleven.
jumelles 3y ago
I'm infinitely thankful most people don't think like this. History is a treasure.
pushedx 3y ago
Computing systems are built in layers. The text field that you used to write that comment has a rendering layer that was only universally present across devices and operating systems about 8 years ago. We are now operating in an environment where the average programmer is writing using frameworks on top of frameworks, on top of libraries, on top of SDKs, on top of containers, on top of VMs, on top of OSs, on top of hypervisors, on top of kernels, on top of microcode, and that's collapsing a bunch of the layers. To have any hope of explaining to the next generation how many of the truly beautiful and fun aspects of computing systems operate, you need to strip away many of these layers. A great way to do that is with old systems where the layers didn't exist.
indymike 3y ago
> No this group wastes so much time trying to relive the 70's and 80's they're missing an even greater paradigm shift "<Sigh>if you only knew." - Guy who did his capstone project on neural networks and computer vision in the 80s.
philipswood 3y ago
To understand fully where the encoding of the text your comment is written in comes from requires you to go all the way back to the telegraph line... If you use a CLI - you need to go back to at least teletypes. Not everyone needs to be concerned with this, but the historical examples of cultures that have throw away their history don't look too encouraging.