Software disenchantment @ tonsky.me
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Everything is going to hell and nobody seems to care
Software disenchantment Translations: Chinese French Hungarian Italian Korean Portuguese Russian Spanish I’ve been programming for 15 years now. Recently, our industry’s lack of care for efficiency, simplicity, and excellence started really getting to me, to the point of me getting depressed by my own career and IT in general. Modern cars work, let’s say for the sake of argument, at 98% of what’s physically possible with the current engine design. Modern buildings use just enough material to fulfill their function and stay safe under the given conditions. All planes converged to the optimal si
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