Modern frameworks like React and its ilk make up 99% of the overhead and inefficiency of modern web code, and that is all declarative boilerplate. Things that should be one imperative line of code operating on a single html element turn into complete recomputing of every element in a thousand element DOM triggered not by direct invocation, but a global state change.

That’s a HORIZONTAL infinity game.

It’s hardly worth saying, but that is NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THAT MESSAGE TO FOCUS ON.

Every move of the past 20 years has been to deploy code faster, and all it cost us was several hundred times the memory and CPU usage to the point where you need 32 Gb of RAM to open two web pages.

It’s just as stupid as it was when it started.

Write imperative code.

Okay, this is amazing and everything…

But what the hell other answer could he POSSIBLY have given?

“Next X-Box.”

Imagine changing your business plans to react to the gas escaping from a bloated corpse.

In the last panel he teleported to Japan.

So, just like here on Earth then.

Absolutely.

But most users, faced with the cost of a new PC, will opt to go completely mobile instead.

They don’t know Linux will give an older PC new life.

Microsoft is involved, so there could be a Bill Gate.

Unfortunately, the “Windows is trash” shift is going to hit the “computers cost HOW much now??” ceiling REALLY soon.

This bit, while hilarious, always rubbed me the wrong way because it seems uncharacteristically careless of April.

She’s disinterested - not error-prone.

Yeah… how can someone not realize this is literally the highest form of connection?

“I’m so comfortable with you that you at your most real moments is so endearing to me that it is the way I choose to capture you because it gives me the nicest feelings.”

To be fair, it sure seems to be a pattern that the most anti-consumer, limited crap usually wins these battles. Look at Apple.

Maybe it’s Sweeney’s personal unlikeability that makes the difference here.

Month’s what?

Man, how nice would the world be if this were the stupidest thing this guy had said in recent memory?

Bees all the way down.

I figure with Booking.com I’m going to end up with a windowless, roach infested hotel room anyway, so I look for properties with reviews like “No windows. Lots of roaches. But a lovely breakfast.”