One reason that, three and a half years later, Andreessen is reiterating that “it’s time to build” instead of writing posts called “Here’s What I Built During the Building Time I Previously Announced Was Commencing” is that Marc Andreessen has not really built much of anything.
- Steve ( @fasterandworse@awful.systems ) English12•1 year ago
software is eating the substance of words like “build”, “engineer”, and “utility” etc
increasingly attracted to making “engineer” a more widely protected term
- raktheundead ( @raktheundead@fedia.io ) 10•1 year ago
As I’ve mentioned before, software “engineering” all too often produces the digital equivalent of the First Tay Bridge.
But then, I’ve had a reverse snobbery about the term “engineer” for several years and it still chagrins me that my job title includes the word when I’m really a technician.
- Steve ( @fasterandworse@awful.systems ) English6•1 year ago
This is why I think Henry Petroski’s To Engineer Is Human should be required reading for anyone in software
- Steve ( @fasterandworse@awful.systems ) English4•1 year ago
Sorry, I shouldn’t respond with a link to a one hour video. But it’s Alan Kay.
- self ( @self@awful.systems ) English8•1 year ago
nah, I’ve got a YouTube video for this exact thread and it’s only 4 hours long is already an awful.systems tradition
- Steve ( @fasterandworse@awful.systems ) English4•1 year ago
Alan Kay agrees with you https://youtu.be/D43PlUr1x_E
- Mike Knell ( @m@blat.at ) 5•1 year ago
@fasterandworse “architecture”
- Soyweiser ( @Soyweiser@awful.systems ) English7•1 year ago
I would say my main question about “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” an essay by the prominent venture-capitalist Marc Andreessen, is whether or not the goatse was intentional.
The lack of ring makes it point to no. Clearly Marc is not a man of culture.
- TQuid ( @TQuid@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year ago
Enjoying the subtle nod to goatse here