runawaybottle

inefficiency.

Sir (Madame?), I ask you one simple question:

Was Twitch built in 10 years, or over just a few?

Steam was built since I was in FUCKING high school. Im old now, well over 30.

Apples, and blueberries.

Bluebarry, Drewbarry, tomato, ToMaHtoH.

Fuck their stupid ass streaming code, it’s a giant crud app, only their devops team can take credit for scaling, everyone else is not worth a shit, sorry, thats life, I gotta Leetcode too, and ur code isn’t worth me reading it, leaked or not).

It’s just luck. I mean, if I was a storyteller, what story would I have to tell if there was no story.

They hit.

It’s sort of like we all hold Golden dice, so we marveled, by our own eyes, at the gold.

Dealer: You rolling those?

Us: no, it’s gold.

They fucking risked it. It’s not a engineering feat, we’re all a bunch of pussies.

Twitch is easiest site to build, you might as well show me a todo app (which will be sieged and dismantled), scale is solved, we will eat your applications, the barbarians.

Rome falls.

I’ll grant you immature, nothing else.

I’m so misread, Twitch is a lot of luck, so is all of these companies. Show me the the source code for luck. I don’t give a fuck if you leaked a video streaming crud app code lol.

Does it take a genius to figure out how to build twitch? It’s a modern crud app with video streaming.

What the hell do we do in this industry if that’s not the case?

Every book can be digitally taken out.

Actually he was promoted to C-Level, CII, Chief Imperial Intern ‘For Life’.

It’s a great accomplishment to be be fair, comes with a lifetime weekly stipend and access to whatever Frontend books/courses you need to be a great web developer.

Will never touch ops again.

It’s because that blockchain someone made is being used as national currency somewhere (and contributing needlessly to global energy consumption), and because that photo sharing site is causing body image issues, and that ad-tracker is building a digital trail of everything you do, and that ML algo is identifying protestors, and and and …

We are not discussing the shit show, we are the shit show.

It’s hard to find the proper analogy since the phenomenon is so new. On a legal basis, it was actually hard to build a case against the Mafia until racketeering laws were passed. It was difficult to prove that it was ‘organized’ crime before then (where before the criminals could say these are all unrelated events, and there is no larger organization, there is no boss, there are no lieutenants, you are imagining connections that don’t exist).

I think Facebook’s mechanisms are in the realm of 20th century propaganda efforts across a variety of countries (Americans/Soviets/Nazis). Is anyone forcing you to believe propaganda? Is anyone forcing you use Facebook? Is Facebook forcing you to be altered by their efforts?

Yet, we know how insidious propaganda was, and how coordinated and deliberate it was, and most importantly, how effective it was.

We were explicitly dividing the union legislatively due to slavery. This was an existential threat to the whole concept of America. I can promise you the vast majority of Americans in the 1800s didn’t give a shit about the morality of slavery.

With respect to our current situation, change won’t come because everyone will realize that social media promotes some of the darker patterns of human nature (narcissism, vanity, compulsion/compulsive/obsessive consumption of gossip/conflict, grandstanding, etc), it’ll change for more … practical/clinical reasons. We don’t want our data and our privacy encroached upon. There won’t be a shred of human enlightenment involved.