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I'm always so jealous of the celebrations in these streams. Pressing deploy to update a service in production seems so much more mundane in comparison, heh. May

I'm always so jealous of the celebrations in these streams. Pressing deploy to update a service in production seems so much more mundane in comparison, heh. Maybe we should be better at celebrating wins in tech?

manquer 2y ago
We did celebrate like this when software releases were something that happened every couple of years and with loads of press coverage, hype leading up to the release, and usually in a physical media with packaging and fancy art accompanying it
- matsemann 2y ago
  Ah, before my time. But I can certainly imagine the excitedness, not to say the nervousness, when sending the final master of some software to be burned into thousands of CD-roms. No easy way to recover if there's a bug there! I've always been impressed with how I never came across any bugs when playing nintendo/cartridge games, couldn't just ship something buggy and rely on some online update back then.
bamboozled 2y ago
I think there needs to be some type of open source space exploration foundation. It's nice billionaires have all these toy space rocket companies, but I think it would feel even more fun if a not for profit, where millions of people can participate somehow were involved. Space shouldn't be owned by 2 people.
- rich_sasha 2y ago
  There is a Danish amateur space program, working towards sending a human on a suborbital flight beyond the Karman line: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Suborbitals https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Suborbitals Baby steps I know, but still
  - bamboozled 2y ago
    Very nice, thanks.
mihaaly 2y ago
There are too much and overacted already, on (other than this) barely interesting things. This is not Hollywood or the Broadway (which actually also suffers from the mandatory celebratory pressure, justified or not [1]). Well completed good work is a reward in itself (see bulk of old NASA reels). For releasing the desire of self celebratory acts we have LinkedIn, Youtube and other social media just for this kind of overinflated complacency. [1] https://www.economist.com/culture/2025/01/09/ovation-inflation-has-spread-from-broadway-to-londons-west-end https://www.economist.com/culture/2025/01/09/ovation-inflati...
- jve 2y ago
  I wonder how you'd felt working almost a decade and never saw a fruit of your work until that one moment where you can feel the rumble in your guts.
  - mihaaly 2y ago
    I guess like those on NASA reels. Looks more honest than cloning the faboys at yet another music festival vibe.

manquer 2y ago

We did celebrate like this when software releases were something that happened every couple of years and with loads of press coverage, hype leading up to the release, and usually in a physical media with packaging and fancy art accompanying it

matsemann 2y ago
Ah, before my time. But I can certainly imagine the excitedness, not to say the nervousness, when sending the final master of some software to be burned into thousands of CD-roms. No easy way to recover if there's a bug there! I've always been impressed with how I never came across any bugs when playing nintendo/cartridge games, couldn't just ship something buggy and rely on some online update back then.

bamboozled 2y ago

I think there needs to be some type of open source space exploration foundation. It's nice billionaires have all these toy space rocket companies, but I think it would feel even more fun if a not for profit, where millions of people can participate somehow were involved. Space shouldn't be owned by 2 people.

rich_sasha 2y ago
There is a Danish amateur space program, working towards sending a human on a suborbital flight beyond the Karman line: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Suborbitals https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Suborbitals Baby steps I know, but still
- bamboozled 2y ago
  Very nice, thanks.

mihaaly 2y ago

There are too much and overacted already, on (other than this) barely interesting things. This is not Hollywood or the Broadway (which actually also suffers from the mandatory celebratory pressure, justified or not [1]). Well completed good work is a reward in itself (see bulk of old NASA reels). For releasing the desire of self celebratory acts we have LinkedIn, Youtube and other social media just for this kind of overinflated complacency. [1] https://www.economist.com/culture/2025/01/09/ovation-inflation-has-spread-from-broadway-to-londons-west-end https://www.economist.com/culture/2025/01/09/ovation-inflati...

jve 2y ago
I wonder how you'd felt working almost a decade and never saw a fruit of your work until that one moment where you can feel the rumble in your guts.
- mihaaly 2y ago
  I guess like those on NASA reels. Looks more honest than cloning the faboys at yet another music festival vibe.