Everything's+Amazing+ +Nobody's+Happy

> leads to fool's errands like this: >> It’s time to kill the aimless, bottom-up, ad-hoc incrementalism in programming in favor of purposeful, top-bottom and planned innovation. Agree. Let the author put his money where his mouth is first, then we can discuss where he's right. He wants programming to be "easier." Well everybody wants everything easier. It's easy to have just one thing easy scarifying other dependencies. But the limitations exist everywhere. And it was damn hard to even come this far and maintain the state we are here now: Louis C.K's take: ▶ this video

> The reason we don't realize the value is because we haven't concocted applications. Some of us realize the value. I just think it's impossible for most people to not take it for granted. If you're under 30, you inherently take it for granted because you know of nothing else, you simply cannot appreciate the technology as much as someone who lived a good chunk of their lives without it. You can "know" and imagine what life was like before our current internet culture, maybe even empathize, but there are still things that are unknowable and can't be experienced by just going off the grid. One such example is culture. The culture of society was different because of the technology (or lack of) at the time. Everything from how you interacted with your friends, to how you received and consumed media, to banking and your place of employment. Everything was different before our current technology. The people who grew up with supercomputers in their pockets don't know of a world where 3-way calling was something magical and you'd get giddy when you used it (or horrified when it was used as a tool to trick you into admitting you liked someone and they were on the phone silently listening). Or a world where if you wanted to find an address or phone number, you had to go find a phone book. Wanted to go on a vacation and look up cool places to see while there? You were heading to the library. If you were on the road driving, and wanted to call someone, you had to stop off and find a pay

> When I bought my first house, using money earned from co-founding a software company, I couldn’t believe that such abstract work could be exchanged for something so big and tangible, hewn from forests and rocks by people sweating in the sun. I've been writing software for years, and it still feels like magic. People work 3x as hard as me and I make 3x as much as them. Many make real, physical things; i just type away on a keyboard. With the right incantations, you can build something that's worth millions. Just you, in your free time, creating something that can be used by the entire world. Always reminds me of this louie CK interview on conan: ▶ this video

and yet only 100 years ago, it would've taken you months to travel across the continents to the otherside of the world...how quickly mentality changes! ▶ this video

"I want 99.9999% reliability and strong safety guarantees" 99.9999% Things are amazing, and nobody's happy. ▶ this video

I had to wait, in my apartment, for 40 MINUTES. "Everything is amazing right now, and nobody's happy." ▶ this video

The targets have to change during the mission. The initial plan was even the another comet. It shouldn't matter. link "Rosetta was set to be launched on 12 January 2003 to rendezvous with the comet 46P/Wirtanen in 2011. This plan was abandoned after a failure of the Ariane 5 carrier rocket during a communications satellite launch on 11 December 2002, grounding it until the cause of the failure could be determined." No reason to blindly stick to the initial target when you're doing something for the first time ever. It's not that you planned to drive from your home to the shopping mall and have to excuse to your other that you went drinking beer instead. You would probably complain that it's not an initial comet now too? The device landed on the darn comet! After travelling 6 billion km in 10 years. Managed to work a few days and send the data! First time ever! Powered only by the solar energy! (+) In the outside temperature of absolute zero. How many firsts do you need? ▶ this video Nothing built by humans was ever on the comet surface before. This thing even worked. +) Edit: Thanks to jdiez17 for pointing that the lander used a non-rechargeable battery on the comet surface. It was all the time planed to do the main work with that battery. The solar powered work wasn't the primary objective.

The following perfectly describes my sentiments about all the complaints people have about JavaScript, PHP, <name your favourite hated language> ▶ this video

It's a nice dream, but even if you had that power to go back and time you'd probably just make other mistakes. There isn't an intelligence capable of designing big open standards like the web, rather they only move forward by natural selection, much like terrestrial life has. In the end I think we've gotten some pretty remarkable things this way, remember before the web there was no such thing as cross-platform, instantly-available globally, and accessible to any person with any disability multimedia. Few people seem to recognize how much of an accomplishment this is: ▶ this video

"First of all we didn't board for twenty minutes , and then we got on the plane and they made us sit there, on the runway, for forty minutes ... we had to sit there." ▶ this video