Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (English only)

Why HN readers recommended it

A perennial HN reference for arguments that software is getting worse and that hard-won knowledge is disappearing.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

bus

Topic

software decline and lost knowledge

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

11

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I am not so sure. This is a handwavy advise I always hear from contemporary business wizbangs, but I don't think it is objectively or universally true. Pedantic, careful and attention to detail, perfectionist products that just work without things breaking all the time are …

• >Nostalgia for the simplicity of the past ends up having ugly cultural implications. It's easy to say "let's go back to the time when things were simple"; it's a lot harder to say "folks in (e.g.) Israel shouldn't be able to type in their native …

• If you'd like to venture further into this rabbit hole I can recommend "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization": [VIDEO] And "The Thirty Million Line Problem": [LINK]