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Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by altdataseller »

dkarl wrote: post #381
volkadav wrote: post #158

it's good to see a little person having fun with all this technocrap that us grognards have gotten so bitter about over the years/decades. :) i hope she continues to have a blast! (from the dedication page in SICP:) “I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and t…

I miss the fun in software development in the workplace. Something has changed. When I started 20+ years ago, people would get excited about something new they learned and rush to tell other people about it. Now everybody is grim, too busy grinding and "managing their visibility" to show any pleasure. If it was just me and my friends who were joyless now, I'd chalk it up to us getting old, but my coworkers who are th…

I would not assume they’re miserable because I probably would have the same reaction if I was them.

We have just been bombarded with so much technology and advancements in the past two decades that it really takes a lot to impress us. We’ve had ppl conputing, smartphones, electric cars, semi-autonomous driving, VR and ChatGPT. A tool that parses Parquet is very very low in the totem pole, compared to all the new tech everyone has been exposed to.

Add that to the fact that we’ve also been overpromised new shiny things that turn out to he disappointments (Google Wave, metaverse, blockchain, a lot of AI products) and its not surprising most people aren’t that impressed by lots of tech these days.

In comparison, 25 years ago, just seeing a webpage load in less than a second led to a Wow moment

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by azinman2 »

jstanley wrote: post #362
HaZeust wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kind of reminds me of the quote from the Steve Jobs movie: "The most efficient animal on the planet is a condor. The most inefficient animals on the planet are humans. But a human with a bicycle becomes the most efficient animal. And the right computer -- a friendly, easy computer that isn’t an eyesore but rather sits on your desk with the beauty of a tensor lamp -- the right computer will be a bicycle for the mind.…

We were promised bicycles for the mind, but what we got was public transport for the mind.

Well what we really ended up with is TV.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by sabhiram »

jstanley wrote: post #362
HaZeust wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kind of reminds me of the quote from the Steve Jobs movie: "The most efficient animal on the planet is a condor. The most inefficient animals on the planet are humans. But a human with a bicycle becomes the most efficient animal. And the right computer -- a friendly, easy computer that isn’t an eyesore but rather sits on your desk with the beauty of a tensor lamp -- the right computer will be a bicycle for the mind.…

We were promised bicycles for the mind, but what we got was public transport for the mind.

Muni style. People crapping all over it from time to time.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by drdaeman »

troymc wrote: post #223

I learned quite a lot by viewing the source of this delightfully clean and spartan website. You don't need a DOCTYPE tag? You don't need a head tag? You don't need to declare the charset? The body tag has a "background" attribute? The HTML "center" tag still works?

It's a good opportunity to tell the history of SGML, HTML, XML and XHTML (and possibly more, like long-forgotten SXML), and explain how we (the collective humanity) fu^W badly messed up our technology by following the path of least resistance because some (a lot of) lazy as^W folks can't be bothered to follow a bunch of simple rules.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by ilrwbwrkhv »

brewdad wrote: post #390
dkarl wrote: post #381

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I miss the fun in software development in the workplace. Something has changed. When I started 20+ years ago, people would get excited about something new they learned and rush to tell other people about it. Now everybody is grim, too busy grinding and "managing their visibility" to show any pleasure. If it was just me and my friends who were joyless now, I'd chalk it up to us getting old, but my coworkers who are th…

Certainly not everyone, but a lot of the people who have entered the field in the past decade are chasing the money. The never had the passion for it but they were and are good at it, so here they are.

The last remaining field is game dev. The pay is low and react kiddies cannot learn it in a week. I wish the pay was higher buy the passion remains there.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by HaZeust »

azinman2 wrote: post #393
jstanley wrote: post #362

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We were promised bicycles for the mind, but what we got was public transport for the mind.

Well what we really ended up with is TV.

“Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television.” - Andy Warhol

Life is a quote or song cue.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by throwaway14356 »

jstanley wrote: post #362
HaZeust wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kind of reminds me of the quote from the Steve Jobs movie: "The most efficient animal on the planet is a condor. The most inefficient animals on the planet are humans. But a human with a bicycle becomes the most efficient animal. And the right computer -- a friendly, easy computer that isn’t an eyesore but rather sits on your desk with the beauty of a tensor lamp -- the right computer will be a bicycle for the mind.…

We were promised bicycles for the mind, but what we got was public transport for the mind.

the internet use to be a series of tubes, now it is a series of buckets.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by CM30 »

This brings me back to the olden days of Geocities and other free hosting services, when sites like this were the norm for many people. It's a fun trip down memory lane for sure, and the fact this looks identical to many of those sites provides great evidence for how accessible and easy to learn HTML was in those days...

Either way, nice job, especially for a 7-year old learning web development!

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by horacemorace »

brewdad wrote: post #390
dkarl wrote: post #381

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I miss the fun in software development in the workplace. Something has changed. When I started 20+ years ago, people would get excited about something new they learned and rush to tell other people about it. Now everybody is grim, too busy grinding and "managing their visibility" to show any pleasure. If it was just me and my friends who were joyless now, I'd chalk it up to us getting old, but my coworkers who are th…

Certainly not everyone, but a lot of the people who have entered the field in the past decade are chasing the money. The never had the passion for it but they were and are good at it, so here they are.

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