A recurring truth about technology is that it's an inescapably humanist endeavor.
Bret Victor, in '04:
"I’ve spent a lot of time over the years desperately trying to think of a ‘thing’ to change the world. I now know why the search was fruitless—things don’t change the world.
In the early 1990s, the accounting firm RRBB owned four computers for a staff of around 30. They called them “lunch boxes”: 30-pound machines that auditors lugged through airports and into client offices.
The New Jersey firm was founded more than 65 years ago and has adapted
Really enjoyed Git at Any Scale from the Cursor team. It's honest. It's precise. It's both respectful and dispassionate of prior art.
Excited for the world's critical high-scale infrastructure to be rewritten to be stateless on objective storage. Long live object storage.
