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Too bad that TJ Miller (Elrich Bachman) probably won't be associated with it.
TJ Miller made Silicon Valley outstanding. Without him it wasn't the same.
Apparently the issue was that he wasn’t actually acting.
TV series about startup failures
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#102The "problem" is we really are in an technology revolution similar to the industrial revolution 200-300 years ago. For every 100 tech startup businesses that don't generate a penny of profit and are propped up by hyper valuations and stock prices, there are companies like Facebook and Google and Apple that absolutely print money in profits. That in turn covers the outlay by venture money. All those companies that bur…
What technology has come out in the last decade that isn't an increment or miniaturization?
Might be just over a decade, but how about the Oculus Rift DK1?
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#103The other day, I was watching the movie, Mr. Jones. It occurred to me then that Vanessa Kirby would be the best person (by appearance, at least) to play Elizabeth Holmes. But I see that ship has sailed.
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No. But ubiquity and smartphones being just part of the fabric of everyday life comes pretty close to squeezing into the last decade. I didn't have one until probably 2011 (iPhone 3GS) and I'm not really a technology laggard.
The always on always online computer in your pocket changed things for sure - and perhaps it was the Internet finally coming into its own. Maybe (maybe) ChatGPT will do something similarly transformative (I’m sus as the kids say).
From the perspective of today, the dot-com era wasn't really that different from before from the perspective of consumers. OK, e-commerce was gearing up but it's not like we didn't have mail order catalogs before. Many of us had feature phones but didn't use them a lot; you were mostly still tethered to a desktop of maybe laptop. Online information could still be pretty sparse for many things. Not really any streaming entertainment. Etc.
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#105'Halt and Catch Fire' (Fictional but good) 'Sillicon Valley' (Fictional and comedy but also good) 'The Playlist' (About Spotify, which isn't failure)
HaCF has an amazing line in it: "Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing." (1) I still think abut it frequently. It's true. It's a statement about systems - often the utility is what they enable, not thing "thing in itself". Even deep into software development, this is true. e.. I really appreciate git and github, but I don't need to focus on becoming a "git maestro" , I just need to g…
Same here, I think about that line often. It applies to a lot of different scenarios in tech.
The most common one is probably pointless redesigns. Outside of games, users usually aren't pulling up a particular app for the pleasure of using it, they just want to use it to accomplish some other goal with as little trouble as possible.
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#106The "problem" is we really are in an technology revolution similar to the industrial revolution 200-300 years ago. For every 100 tech startup businesses that don't generate a penny of profit and are propped up by hyper valuations and stock prices, there are companies like Facebook and Google and Apple that absolutely print money in profits. That in turn covers the outlay by venture money. All those companies that bur…
What technology has come out in the last decade that isn't an increment or miniaturization?
mRNA vaccines are a huge deal. I don’t think it would be fair to call them incremental.
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Agreed that AI is transformative. That this for kids they grew up with the internet is their epoch moment that those of us they saw the internet come already had. However… I don’t think it counts exactly. When you look at the trillions that have been dumped into basically “ take the best and brightest in the world, and then get them to increase advertising performance by 1% a year” and the money effort and time put i…
It's just "boring plumbing" but software server infrastructure (containers, Kubernetes, and everything cloud-native associated) has basically competely changed in the last 10 years.
Being able to rent computers by the hour was definitely a big change.
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It's just "boring plumbing" but software server infrastructure (containers, Kubernetes, and everything cloud-native associated) has basically competely changed in the last 10 years.
Being able to rent computers by the hour was definitely a big change.
Arguably mainstream public cloud computing is a little more than a decade old but not by much. AWS was only announced in (late?) 2006.
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Too bad that TJ Miller (Elrich Bachman) probably won't be associated with it.
Pretty much the entire cast was great, but the standouts were, IMO: TJ Miller (Erlich) Martin Starr (Gilfoyle) Zach Woods (Jared) Kumail Nanjiani (Dinesh) (in roughly this order) [Honorary mention: Henry Phillips (John, the datacenter guy)]
Cristohpher Evan Welch (Peter Gregory). Sadly he died before season one aired.
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HaCF has an amazing line in it: "Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing." (1) I still think abut it frequently. It's true. It's a statement about systems - often the utility is what they enable, not thing "thing in itself". Even deep into software development, this is true. e.. I really appreciate git and github, but I don't need to focus on becoming a "git maestro" , I just need to g…
Same here, I think about that line often. It applies to a lot of different scenarios in tech. The most common one is probably pointless redesigns. Outside of games, users usually aren't pulling up a particular app for the pleasure of using it, they just want to use it to accomplish some other goal with as little trouble as possible.
> they just want to use it to accomplish some other goal with as little trouble as possible.
I feel much the same way about git.