Notices by Midcentury Modern Cockatrice (enkiv2@a.weirder.earth)

@Riley It's a lot easier to know "oh, PARC solved this problem already, so I should see what they did" than to try to solve a problem that the most brilliant minds in CS spent six months on from first principles in a weekend.

@mmu_man Yeah, free software for sure isn't immune. Much less immune, too, now that a lot of the old guard has been replaced with 'open source' people from industry who don't know the lore and don't know that there *is* lore.

@mareklach No, I mean actual things actually built in the 1970s, with academic papers written about them.

Hot take: The past 40 years in tech have been characterized primarily by a slow titration of ideas from the 70s into an industry with no familiarity with history, who then claim to have invented them.

@natecull
COMPROP sounds wayy too much like the name of a soviet government task force.

s/angel investor/Mephistopheles investor/g

Let’s Replace JavaScript with Something Better https://john.ankarstrom.se/english/texts/replacing-javascript/

Hot take: big tech exists only as a failure to create small (human-scale) tech. Facebook & twitter represents a failure to create & publicize p2p alternatives.

Being frugal is for the rich | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/3840/frugalwoods-frugality-millennials

'Fifth Generation' Became Japan's Lost Generation - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/05/business/fifth-generation-became-japan-s-lost-generation.html

QOTD: "It's time to make old mistakes in new and exciting ways"