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JavaScript is quite a bit faster than Ruby in most cases.
Electron isn’t just JavaScript, else I would have said JavaScript. Electron is front and center in the movement to shorten development time by consuming more PC resources at runtime. I feel that’s the spirit of the prediction.
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The dynamic languages slower than ruby prediction didn't hold up either. The past ten years have just seen nibbling around the edges for dynamic languages, without any compelling ideas about how to make them fundamentally more expressive.
Python is eating the world. In many measures, Python is slower than Ruby.
> Network analysis and data mining will claim their first major political scalp. That'll be a watershed moment: the politics of information are going to start being the kind of core liberal issue that environmental issues currently are. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025703 This poster saw it.
> Network analysis and data mining will claim their first major political scalp. Who's scalp was it? I don't know any politician who has been taken to task over network analysis and data mining. Fore sure not Obama, whose staffers have quietly chortled that they did far worse than Cambridge Analytica ever did. Definitely not Trump, his numbers are as even as they haev ever been. Maybe Zuckerberg? But he's still CEO o…
In that light, the answer is obvious: Hillary Clinton!
(And before someone complaints, which someone will definitely still do: Given the extremely close election, it is possible, even likely, that any single one of maybe a dozen issues had the potential to change the outcome: Just being a bit better as a candidate would have been enough. That e-mail "scandal" getting the same attention as the dozens of carbon copies of it since revealed in the Trump Cabinet, i. e. none, would have sufficed. Defences against Russian interference, or even just widespread knowledge of the attacks, could have been enough etc. etc.
IsaacL nailed it the best https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1027093 And surprisingly the WoW one is the most off :D
I think the Microsoft prediction is even more off...
My favorite is the joke that Zuck will buy Portugal.
- Bitcoin would become the decade's best investment by far
- the President of the US would conduct foreign policy through Twitter
- electric scooters would become a billion dollar business (Bird, Lime, etc.)
- the sharing economy would threaten the taxi and hotel industries (AirBNB and Uber)
- escalation of school shootings
- the explosive growth of quantitative easing
- negative nominal interest rates on sovereign debt
- revelations of mass surveillance by the US government
- streaming video services would begin to produce content rivaling major studios in quality
- Amazon would become the everything company
- DNA testing would become a major recreational activity with numerous judicial and social implications
- the US would approach energy independence, driven largely by a boom in oil extraction technologies
Also interesting to consider how all of these ideas would have seemed more or less ludicrous in 2010.
> Network analysis and data mining will claim their first major political scalp. That'll be a watershed moment: the politics of information are going to start being the kind of core liberal issue that environmental issues currently are. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025703 This poster saw it.
> Network analysis and data mining will claim their first major political scalp. Who's scalp was it? I don't know any politician who has been taken to task over network analysis and data mining. Fore sure not Obama, whose staffers have quietly chortled that they did far worse than Cambridge Analytica ever did. Definitely not Trump, his numbers are as even as they haev ever been. Maybe Zuckerberg? But he's still CEO o…
If something can be predicted, or if many people agree with you, then it's not that revolutionary. ctrl+f "bitcoin" returns 0 results. Disruptive ideas take humanity by a storm few people believe it's coming, the rest can only connect the dots looking backwards.
To be fair, when I ctrl+f Bitcoin in my actual life there’s also 0 results.
Compare this to developments happening outside the computing-tech world (like Musk is doing) and the rise of green building tech. Today it is more than feasible to build a house that generates more energy than it consumes over the course of a year, even in cold climates like Northern Europe. The only thing preventing this from being more common is knowledge (builders keep building what they know) and it costs a little more upfront.
A lot of doom and gloom for Microsoft in that thread. But Microsoft has fared much better than anyone expected.
I disagree, I think anyone the put in charge would have done well. Satya came in during one of the biggest bull runs in history and just surfed the wave. Even Ballmer would have had a hard time to stop that.