I miss the UIs of 90s software
04.03.2025 23:26
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I miss the UIs of 90s software
Good senior/staff+ engineers are able to solve hard problems.
But what sets apart some of the best I've worked with is that they are able to solve hard problems by introducing the least amount of complexity.
What I really want to emphasise, is that the gap between good and great can be huge.
GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ: I don't know who the hell it is that's ended up convincing us—the people who want to start a revolution-to accept the idea that revolution is apocalyp-tic, catastrophic, and bloody. We need to grasp once and for all that it's counterrevolution that's apocalyptic and catastrophic and bloody. You already know the figures: more than thirty thousand dead, thousands im-prisoned, thousands tortured by the leaders of the Chilean military coup. My idea of revolution is of the search for individual happiness through collective happiness, which is the only just form of happiness.
Reading the interviews of Gabriel García Márquez and this passage stands out to me, from the 1970s but relevant in this time, that in this era the fight must be for collective happiness, which as he astutely describes, is the only kind of just happiness
AI is the only field where people can introduce themselves as experts whilst simultaneously declaring they don't know how AI works.
If you don't know how it works, you're a user, not an expert.
it's winter
make sure to top up the electrolyte in your capacitors for optimum performance
Dos series de videos geniales que he compartido periódicamente durante años en Twitter / X:
1) Borges por Piglia, un curso imprescindible de la televisión pública argentina: www.youtube.com/watch?v=im_k...
Ecuador
Criticism is easy. Creating something worth criticizing is the hard part.
Bringing up the flaws in an idea is not killing the idea. Quite the opposite.
Raising issues and solving them is how you successfully bring an idea to life.
The trick is in recognising there will always be problems and facing them head on rather than pretending they don't exist.
Overhead photo of large crowd gathered at national march to demand a ceasefire in Gaza happening in Washington DC
Massive national march to demand a ceasefire in Gaza happening in Washington DC right now.
