<story><title>How I Arrived at Sun as Employee #8</title><url>https://twitter.com/aka_pugs/status/1521489115585421314</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smackeyacky</author><text>Dull?&lt;p&gt;You can hang the equivalent of an eighties micro on anything you please and record things nobody has ever seen before, download the data en masse to your pocket supercomputer, sync that to an AI and make accurate predictions that can be used to affect real world outcomes.&lt;p&gt;You can talk to anyone on the planet with minimal charges.&lt;p&gt;You can take infinite numbers of pictures of everything at insane resolutions, backyard astronomy is unbelievable compared to the Sun era.&lt;p&gt;Computing has never been so exciting.  If you think you missed out because you weren&amp;#x27;t  in silicon valley in the 1980s, the amount of cool work being done everywhere but the valley needs reconsidering.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been doing this since the 80s and its never been better than now.</text></item><item><author>cab11150904</author><text>Computers as a whole seem so boring nowadays.  I get that we all have supercomputers in our pockets, and it should be amazing, but it&amp;#x27;s just dull.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rektide</author><text>Altogether far too much computing happens in far off mainframes. Aka the cloud. Far too little computing can genuinely be engaged with. The potential has been coopted &amp;amp; occluded &amp;amp; we&amp;#x27;re left chainrd to the cave again, starting at megacompany&amp;#x27;s shadowpuppets.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s worth admitting the formative years are often a lot of fun. Some come-down is expected.&lt;p&gt;But I also believe collective discontent slowly grows in this deeply consumerized computing climate &amp;amp; eventually we&amp;#x27;ll push for new terrain, grow tired of this technostratifocation.</text></comment>
<story><title>How I Arrived at Sun as Employee #8</title><url>https://twitter.com/aka_pugs/status/1521489115585421314</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smackeyacky</author><text>Dull?&lt;p&gt;You can hang the equivalent of an eighties micro on anything you please and record things nobody has ever seen before, download the data en masse to your pocket supercomputer, sync that to an AI and make accurate predictions that can be used to affect real world outcomes.&lt;p&gt;You can talk to anyone on the planet with minimal charges.&lt;p&gt;You can take infinite numbers of pictures of everything at insane resolutions, backyard astronomy is unbelievable compared to the Sun era.&lt;p&gt;Computing has never been so exciting.  If you think you missed out because you weren&amp;#x27;t  in silicon valley in the 1980s, the amount of cool work being done everywhere but the valley needs reconsidering.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been doing this since the 80s and its never been better than now.</text></item><item><author>cab11150904</author><text>Computers as a whole seem so boring nowadays.  I get that we all have supercomputers in our pockets, and it should be amazing, but it&amp;#x27;s just dull.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hulitu</author><text>And still printing a web page is real challenge. 
And if you want to compile a programm you find out that it needs 30 libraries. 
Some things are better. 
Most of the things are worse. 
I have a text editor on my Android phone. It cannot do search and replace.</text></comment>