internet culture
Why do people construct and then give away free languages? Well, the creation of a good computer language is the work of an apex programmer. To have produced a successful language is acknowledged as a monumental effort, akin to publishing a multivolume history of a war, or fighting in one. The reward is glory.
Changing a language is like fighting... See more
Changing a language is like fighting... See more
PAUL FORD • Paul Ford: What Is Code? | Bloomberg
all our models that justify transport investment assume that travel time is always a disutility. In other words, the more time you spend in transit, the worse off you are. If you come along with fancy ideas suggesting that people may sometimes prefer slower to faster, it fucks up our whole model.”
So this is what’s happened to the world:... See more
So this is what’s happened to the world:... See more
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
Coding is a culture of blurters. This can yield fast decisions, but it penalizes people who need to quietly compose their thoughts, rewarding fast-twitch thinkers who harrumph efficiently. Programmer job interviews, which often include abstract and meaningless questions that must be answered immediately on a whiteboard, typify this culture. Regular... See more
PAUL FORD • Paul Ford: What Is Code? | Bloomberg
If technology-inflected solitarist identity makes it difficult or impossible to identify and admire heroes, saints and sages, then it will be difficult or impossible for us to learn how to live well in the digital age.
Tim Gorichanaz • Finding Heroes In A Messy Digital World | NOEMA
Introducing Clay - High Performance UI Layout in C
youtube.comC based react alternative in a way, but native to every environment ?
So I’ll end with a very weird question: What does slow AI look like? We’ve automatically assumed that the way we interact with it is instantaneous. Are we sure that’s right? Would it be interesting to be able to say to an AI, Look, over the next three or four months, can you give me some ideas about holidays in Greece? Do we want to make that... See more
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
cheaper to run this way?
The one thing I thought was funny about Anu’s piece is that it claims “no one owns taste” but then sort of poo-poo’s the anticipated reaction of people that views the subject of taste as their “special territory”.
You can’t have both of these things. And it’s what tech people broadly get wrong about many other intersectional dialogues. Either no... See more
You can’t have both of these things. And it’s what tech people broadly get wrong about many other intersectional dialogues. Either no... See more
Reggie James • Product Lost by @hipcityreg | Reggie James | Substack
What would it look like if, in a McLuhan-esque, medium is the message sort of way, our tools said to us:
It’s gonna take you a while.
It’s normal to take a while.
It’d be weird if you made something beautiful so quickly.
The problem isn’t that you’re not working fast enough.
The problem is your expectations are not realistic.
Our AI helps you slow the... See more
It’s gonna take you a while.
It’s normal to take a while.
It’d be weird if you made something beautiful so quickly.
The problem isn’t that you’re not working fast enough.
The problem is your expectations are not realistic.
Our AI helps you slow the... See more