Rage Against the God Machine

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Hillel Wayne Situated Software

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Software infuriates me. It is enraging that there is this thing out there, able to think thousands of times faster than I can, the combinatorial power to reproduce the world every heartbeat. And I still had to work for months, slaving over code, screaming at bugs, to help me with the barest of my issues. Worse still, I am a programmer whose job it is to understand the computer. That kind of effort is completely inaccessible to most people.

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Everything is designed for collaborative work, because collaborative work is the only thing that scales.

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Software vs Capitalism

Every ounce of legibility encoded into a language is a lost pound of expressiveness. Every point of consistency is lost power.

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might something be better to have an inconsistent language with foot guns if the 80% case of expected use is significantly more powerful.

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