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> Brendan Eich: you take a week-long swing at a problem your employer finds commercially compelling. The result enjoys staggering worldwide success in the ensui
by mp05 2y ago
> Brendan Eich: you take a week-long swing at a problem your employer finds commercially compelling. The result enjoys staggering worldwide success in the ensuing decades, despite being clearly outclassed by the prior art it was supposed to build on.
Pretty brilliant, right? Right?
- riwsky 2y agoPlease forgive my JavaScript joke: it’s really just a poorly-written series of callbacks.
- minikomi 2y agoYou merely extended the prototype
- bigiain 2y agoIt wasn't that great, but some of the callbacks had promises...
- sdiupIGPWEfh 2y agoI'm still awaiting the punchline.
- LVB 2y agothis is the problem
- milani 2y agoNot fulfilled yet? Maybe in the next tick.
- sdiupIGPWEfh 2y agoYeah, I'd heard they were still iterating on their routine.
- grotorea 2y agoI would like to quote the creator of Dogecoin: > In reply to that, Mr Markus was asked whether he had considered energy usage when creating the cryptocurrency. > “i made doge in like 2 hours i didn’t consider anything,” he wrote.
- akoboldfrying 2y agoI love this so much. It's like "The Emperor's New Clothes", except it's the Emperor himself yelling "I'm naked you fucking idiots!"