On one side, coders fighting for the user, hands bloodied and dirty. On the other, wealth, but under the yoke of control. What a choice.
The masters of App City carefully snip and prune the culture. Subversive elements are removed as if they never existed. Who would see?
In the distance, App City, with its gleaming towers and shiny-toothed people. The citizens are happy there. But do they remember freedom ..?
One man surviving the apocalypse in his radiation-proof exoskeleton, simply yelling "RSS! RSS! RSS!" over and over again.
Scene: 100 years into the future. An apocalyptic wasteland. Shouts on the radioactive wind: "... JSON-LD ...!" "... Microformats ...!"
@sarahdessen On the plus side, you're exponentially less likely to be served kale with your breakfast in North Carolina.
@mdvfunes Lifelong fan! Starting with the very tail end of Tom Baker. Peter Davidson and Sylvester McCoy are my Doctors.
AMP's special tags is a technical discussion we can continue to have. But giving certain vendors platform status is inherently closed. Bad.
@mikepetruzzo Definitely huge (& growing!) social problems being caused by tech workers. But it's down to us to drive change. @BenedictEvans
@mikepetruzzo @BenedictEvans I think a large number of us in tech would be very happy for there to be well-funded government infrastructure.
@mikepetruzzo I'm not sure this is a conversation about VC (and I'm not anti-VC). It's also not VC's role. @BenedictEvans
@BenedictEvans There's no excuse for urinating on a playground, obviously. But we still need to find a solution to it.
@suchprettyeyes Indeed. The pendulum will swing back to nuance and diversity online as soon as the current funding boom starts to fail.
@suchprettyeyes Right. The web wouldn't have grown if it had been managed this way. Almost as if a distributed model is better ... ;)
@BenedictEvans Sure, but it may be caused by the lack of a culture of community responsibility that led to the toilet shortage to begin with
@suchprettyeyes Suspect they've calculated paying user revenue is lower than revenue from advertising. Consumers generally don't pay, sadly.
@suchprettyeyes My guess it's about prepping for a sale rather than ongoing revenue.
@anildash I like to think of vaporizers as tiny wind instruments for dogs. Fun to watch people on the subway playing tiny subaural toots
@Eddie_At_Skaro Not a good idea. Who is an inclusive, diverse show with twin progressive hearts - Disney would be slick but with no soul.
@jasonlk @hunterwalk Better yet: give your employees the opportunity to be on stage instead of you.
@BenedictEvans The thing I struggle with: programming. I would love to use another device for this, but nothing works well yet. Opportunity.
@michaelbyrne @actualham (Mine's from crowdfunding them) @hypothes_is
@kylewmahan Why would you attempt this before coffee #donotunderstand
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