launching apple music on play, seems very similar to microsoft's early anti trust case and internet explorer

Maybe it’s misplaced nostalgia but google search before google plus ruined the +, and the image search was top tier (not shopping ads) - truly incredible the signal to noise you could find.

Now all the junk comes to the top and the sites you get all have ads and modal popups or sales funnel flows

Google was good. So everyone used it, so SEOs tried to optimize and then you get the junk.

Of course - it's SEO's fault that Google search frequently ignores words in your queries.

It's SEO's fault that Google frequently prioritizes giving you results that are semantically or thematically related but ultimately irrelevant to what you searched for.

It's SEO's fault that Google refuses to place ads on websites not full of meandering irrelevant "content".

It's SEO's fault Google search all-but-ignores most single-purpose tool websites.

It's not the result of decisions made by Google's programmers and project managers - it's allllll the fault of SEO!

The SEO industry definitely isn't an all-purpose scapegoat for horribly unpopular decisions made by human beings at Google.

> Alas it also had great views into the apartments at Neo Bankside whose residents ultimately sued and won, thus if you arrive by lift today you can only visit the cafe

bummer

Steve Yegge is the creator of gastown, a multi-agent workspace manager. It's an open source 21st century master piece of ai psychosis, slop, and most especially redundant processes, orchestration and code (MILLIONS OF LINES) I'm finding no surprise and even laugh-out-loud hilarious, that the author of such abomination is also the progenitor of the equally inane and psychotic hiring process of FAANGs like google and amazon.

That sounds like a violation of affiliate t&c ? Wouldn't that nullify them, and even lead to lawsuits?

Human output is not money go in production come out. This is tired. Companies continue to headquarter in the most expensive cities in the world. Surely they would all REMOTE TO THE BALKANS by now if it were actually a viable option

Because it's casino like setup. Where management buys real estate in a city and headquarter their. Major chunk of employees wages end up right into the pockets of Executives through wages

On paper you get employees who are paid very high but large amount of that money goes right back into pocket of rich wealthy people who control the companies

The company town never died, it just evolved

Good talent is still hard to find so that's not going to happen for large companies, but lots of startups are going in that direction.

This is great. Maybe before self driving becomes a thing we can convince our capital hoarding tech oligarchs who run the country we need more walkable cities to feed ai inputs

Of course it does, and is it any surprise the most innovative city and urban centers in the world are the most walkable?

Counterpoint: Silicon Valley is a wasteland of industrial parks

Open source tech is a marketplace of ideas. If you have a more perfect alternative then it will prevail.

Granted none of these critics have a viable tried and true alternative. It’s easy to throw shade at any abstraction. None will ever be perfect!

That said, I welcome any new paradigms and ideas. But discounting how far we’ve come with what’s possible on the frontend with hand waves just doesn’t cut it for me.

> Open source tech is a marketplace of ideas. If you have a more perfect alternative then it will prevail.

React has had Facebook promoting it for over a decade… it's hardly a marketplace of ideas… more "Facebook is using this so it must be good enough for us"

I am wondering how much the "perfect alternative then it will prevail" still holds given the amount of money spent on marketing by infrastructure companies, for example Vercel that have an interest in promoting Next.

That’s a fair take. What happened to google’s angular ? Facebook is also historically invested in php, why wasn’t php just good enough? Facebook also had flow, Microsoft typescript won.

Sure these companies have influence, but it’s not all or nothing.

I just don’t buy the whole mass hysteria and funding being responsible for reacts prevalence.

“Frontend purity” reeks of the tired, “lazy unskilled engineers should write software in C and assembly on 16kb memory like the old days”

Reacts success is not from being an air tight optimized and perfect abstraction, it succeeds because it has a scalable abstractions which have relatively good ROI when you learn it even with its warts.

What you mean there’s no viable alternative to react? Is this a joke?

This is interesting, anecdotally I have felt like I was having better luck with raw sqlite than using an ORM in a recent typescript project, using raw sqlite queries vs drizzle