Aaron Parecki

Well we have flattened the curve

Web1: Shockwave Flash uses all your CPU
Web2: Javascript uses all your CPU
Web3: As above, but also uses other people's CPU

Let me see if I have this straight:
web1: capitalized HTML tags
web2: CSS border-radius
web3: pyramid schemes

My wife and I paid off our $500k mortgage in 2 years by doing the following:
- Worked 9-5, saved aggressively
- Cut our avocado toast and boozy brunches
- Sold a startup for $10m in cash

It’s that simple

Future generations will ask why grandpa needed so many of these:

I am completely random and chaotic 😬

BULLDOZE ME HARDER DA- I mean, why yes, I will comply with my city council's virtuous decision to build basic housing for my fellow Americans.

oh good the mail's here, can't wait to open 50 different envelopes from my bank stuffed with 75 pages each saying "thank you for going paperless"

“Frank come over here! The food, hosting, ci, tools and meetup space are free! Isn’t this great!?”

INDEEED

Not sure that sounds like a great protocol for patching exploit bugs. "I'm sorry, we can't patch log4j until the votes are counted"
It's also not what happens in practice in cryptocurrency circles either. See the 2013 bitcoin accidental fork, for example.

This is one of the most important aspects of Web 2.0 that web3 advocates have tried to retcon. That generation also started with optimistic creators talking about decentralized, user-owned, open protocols (open standards, even!) that would empower people. Guess how it played out.

One of the smaller things that grates about the crypto push is its boosters just unilaterally redefining “web 2.0” to mean “the big platforms like Facebook and Google”. It didn’t mean that! It meant “Ajax websites that don’t need to be refreshed every time the content changes”!

People seem to be redefining Web 2.0 as Facebook, etc, that own data, but Web 2.0 at the time was platforms like WordPress, Odeo, Six Apart, Flickr, Technorati, and http://del.icio.us that had open data and interoperated. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ross/49490304 https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1479636522282455042

lol the us covid bubble is so big it's being distorted by the map projection and wrapping around the arctic ?

If you’re in one of those newfangled four day work week setups for the new year, this is your reminder that this is your Friday

oh you have a weighted blanket? haha that's cute, I sleep with the crushing weight of all the shitty code I wrote years ago still running in production

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