[mattmaroon]

When I went through YC in 2007 a founder whose name you know drunkenly told me at a party that Google Docs and Macbooks would have Microsoft out of business by 2012. Someone here told me in 2018 I was nuts to buy a gas-powered car because in less time than you would drive a car for, everyone will have switched to electric and there will be no gas stations left.

The impending deaths of most things are greatly exaggerated.

[decimalenough]

People overestimate the rate of change in the short run and underestimate the impact of change in the long run.

[dpflan]

- https://www.rip-grep.com/

- https://www.rip-grep.com/microsoft

[nostrademons]

Huh, funny. I always associated ripgrep with the find/grep replacement written in Rust:

https://github.com/burntsushi/ripgrep

Wonder if it was an intentional pun.

[Ifkaluva]

Next: “SWE is largely solved, expect mass unemployment in the next few years”?

[TheGRS]

That's already half of the threads I see on reddit lately.

[jader201]

Except we're actually seeing a non-trivial reduction in SWE jobs, particularly entry-level roles.

May be short term and turn around at some point, but the current trends definitely feel lower vs. higher.

[lokar]

Are we? Compare to when? How about compared to the 30 year variation, not just the last 6.

In “big tech” or internet services, or also the non-tech companies that employ most engineers?

[mykowebhn]

I wonder how much of that is driven by organic market forces or through anti-competitive practices.

For example, Chinese electric vehicles are selling like hotcakes in Europe but you'd be hard-pressed to find any in the US.

[moomoo11]

what was ur startup