One reason that, three and a half years later, Andreessen is reiterating that “it’s time to build” instead of writing posts called “Here’s What I Built During the Building Time I Previously Announced Was Commencing” is that Marc Andreessen has not really built much of anything.
software is eating the substance of words like "build", "engineer", and "utility" etc
increasingly attracted to making "engineer" a more widely protected term
As I’ve mentioned before, software “engineering” all too often produces the digital equivalent of the First Tay Bridge.
But then, I’ve had a reverse snobbery about the term “engineer” for several years and it still chagrins me that my job title includes the word when I’m really a technician.
This is why I think Henry Petroski’s To Engineer Is Human should be required reading for anyone in software
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Alan Kay agrees with you https://youtu.be/D43PlUr1x_E
Sorry, I shouldn’t respond with a link to a one hour video. But it’s Alan Kay.
nah, I’ve got a YouTube video for this exact thread and it’s only 4 hours long is already an awful.systems tradition
@fasterandworse “architecture”
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I would say my main question about “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” an essay by the prominent venture-capitalist Marc Andreessen, is whether or not the goatse was intentional.
The lack of ring makes it point to no. Clearly Marc is not a man of culture.
Enjoying the subtle nod to goatse here
