| 00:46:50 | jonald_fyookball: | jonald_fyookball has left #bitcoin-wizards |
| 00:52:31 | gmaxwell: | The basic problem facing the computer industry today is the software |
| 00:52:31 | gmaxwell: | crisis; software cost as a fraction of total system cost has |
| 00:52:32 | gmaxwell: | dramatically increased over the last two decades. It is an odd kind |
| 00:52:32 | gmaxwell: | of crisis, because it is in a sense a crisis caused by good fortune: |
| 00:52:32 | gmaxwell: | decreasing hardware costs have made possible more and more ambitious |
| 00:52:34 | gmaxwell: | projects. Unfortunately, our ambitions greatly exceed our current |
| 00:52:36 | gmaxwell: | programming abilities. There are four fundamental problems: the size |
| 00:52:39 | gmaxwell: | of modern programs, the demands for security, the use of concurrency, |
| 00:52:41 | gmaxwell: | and the need for expandable systems. |
| 00:52:51 | gmaxwell: | (from the Intel iAPX 432 arch manual, published in 1981) |
| 01:01:58 | Graet: | so....nothing changed? |
| 01:03:18 | GAit: | i think we got more tool but not enough awareness yet |
| 01:04:12 | GAit: | also people tend to do short term investments more than longer terms. So, add that feature and collect technical debt as opposed to refactor that ugly piece of ..code. |
| 01:04:53 | Luke-Jr: | hey, at least you can use software you buy after you replace the computer :p |
| 01:05:10 | Luke-Jr: | except in the most absurd cases where you have to pay for maintenance of it |
| 01:05:51 | GAit: | absurd? |
| 01:08:33 | Luke-Jr: | well, absurd if you had to pay for it initially at least |
| 01:11:03 | phantomcircuit: | gmaxwell, ha |
| 01:35:48 | Emcy: | thats pretty funny |
| 01:36:45 | Emcy: | its pretty interesting subbing to some of the comp.sci groups on olduse.net |
| 01:37:10 | Emcy: | tldr of olduse.net is its live usenet - 30 years from current |
| 01:37:39 | Emcy: | well, there was no comp.sci then actually..... |
| 01:44:20 | ericp5: | ericp5 is now known as ericp4 |
| 04:03:20 | wallet421: | wallet421 is now known as wallet42 |
| 04:27:35 | andytoshi: | o.O i had never heard of iAPX 432 until today, then gmaxwell posted that wonderful snippit 4 hours before i was scrolling through the old lwn thread on rust https://lwn.net/Articles/547145/ where it is mentioned |
| 11:03:37 | lnovy_: | lnovy_ is now known as lnovy |
| 15:34:20 | GAit: | has someone done any analysis on how much people are using p2sh? |