welcome to the cloud

SICP, 1986:
- recursive tree walks
- AI
- lisp
- prolog
- magic

2013:
- overengineered nonsense like visual studio and java
- hipstr.js, a new "framework" that uses 120% of your CPU to do nothing useful
- "cloud" computing, a return to 1960's remote-access services in lieu of personal computing, for the greater profit of software giants
- fisherprice "apps" the design of which assumes computer users are 3 years old

Today Apple with their "user-friendly" unprogrammable devices are king, enslaving people into believing that a "computer" is a gadget for wasting time on websites and not a means of computing things

If you don't buy new "devices" every year and contribute your share to world pollution, you're not cool. Even though we now have many gigahertz of CPU and many gigabytes of RAM, upgrades are considered proper etiquette.

When software lets you connect with customers when and where they want, that's business with .NET.

When objects fall back to the ground after they are thrown, that's business with gravity.

As they said in the olden days before this website was run over by spammers and racists, DISCUSS.

- tabbed browsing and other antiproductive UIs

Apparently, the fact that people may want to see more than 1 webpage at a time is never considered, or that they may want to see the UI of more than one "app" simultaneously.

Meanwhile screen resolutions continue to increase!

I have an early tablet that runs Win98SE and it's easier to multitask on that than an iPad, because as it name indicates, Windows allows you to arrange your windows however you want and open as many apps as available memory allows. And it only has an 800x600 screen. With the iPad, all you can do is run one app at a time and switch between them, on a 2048x1536 screen which is more than most people have on their desktops.

WHAT THE FUCK.