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When I went through YC in 2007 a founder whose name you know drunkenly told me at a party that Google Docs and Macbooks would have Microsoft out of business by
by mattmaroon 5mo ago
When I went through YC in 2007 a founder whose name you know drunkenly told me at a party that Google Docs and Macbooks would have Microsoft out of business by 2012. Someone here told me in 2018 I was nuts to buy a gas-powered car because in less time than you would drive a car for, everyone will have switched to electric and there will be no gas stations left.
The impending deaths of most things are greatly exaggerated.
- Ifkaluva 5mo agoNext: “SWE is largely solved, expect mass unemployment in the next few years”?
- jader201 5mo agoExcept we're actually seeing a non-trivial reduction in SWE jobs, particularly entry-level roles. May be short term and turn around at some point, but the current trends definitely feel lower vs. higher.
- lokar 5mo agoAre we? Compare to when? How about compared to the 30 year variation, not just the last 6. In “big tech” or internet services, or also the non-tech companies that employ most engineers?
- TheGRS 5mo agoThat's already half of the threads I see on reddit lately.
- mykowebhn 5mo agoI wonder how much of that is driven by organic market forces or through anti-competitive practices. For example, Chinese electric vehicles are selling like hotcakes in Europe but you'd be hard-pressed to find any in the US.
- dpflan 5mo ago- https://www.rip-grep.com/ https://www.rip-grep.com/ - https://www.rip-grep.com/microsoft https://www.rip-grep.com/microsoft
- nostrademons 5mo agoHuh, funny. I always associated ripgrep with the find/grep replacement written in Rust: https://github.com/burntsushi/ripgrep https://github.com/burntsushi/ripgrep Wonder if it was an intentional pun.
- decimalenough 5mo agoPeople overestimate the rate of change in the short run and underestimate the impact of change in the long run.
- moomoo11 5mo agowhat was ur startup