Comments by "Walter Burton" (@WalterBurton) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. That was a shitty thing to do, sliding that ad in there like that. Booooo. 👎👎👎
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  2. Oh wow. This brings back memories. Please pardon the pun. lol But, no, I remember this debate. I remember being surprised that it got so much traction. It was an epic nerd fight, but I remember at the time concluding that the fight wasn't about anything at all important or interesting. To me, anyway. Thanks. A lot of your videos are great nostalgia hits. I didn't get to Asia (Tokyo, mostly) until the early aughts. But I was in Europe a lot before that, and worked for and with a lot of companies that came out of Mountain View and Palo Alto and other places. Software. As I age further into the back-half of my century, it's fascinating to see history's consideration of my past environment. An experience that latter-middle-aged people surely experience far more intensely today than their forebears, because everything's moving so fast. Then again, everything's relative, I suppose. These brains are curiously flexible that way.
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  3. Haha! What a great sport! (@10:35). Thanks for enduring our lashings. Take what you can use, and leave all the rest, etc. Thank you! 😊❤😊
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  4. HIGH-uh-sinths (hyacinths)
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  5. 💀💀💀 @ 11:12
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  6. (S)tructured (Q)uery (L)anguage
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  7. "Lopsided deal" my ass.
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  8. At 12:50. "Wang Comes on With a Bang." 🤦‍♂
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  9. I don't understand why Rolex was not included in the essay. Trying to stay focused on that "accessible luxury" price point? Would that have made the thesis unwieldy?
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  10. God this is the stuff of my nightmares.
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  11. Cue Real Genius references.
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  12. Am I the only person on the planet who bristles when people pluralize "software" by tacking an "S" on the end? "Softwares" is not only grammatically incorrect, it's like fingernails on a chalkboard.
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  13. 👍👍👍
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  14. "Countries like the United States are still struggling to...." Haha. Uh, no. "The United States hasn't bothered to do it yet because 99% of the use cases are already sufficiently filled for 99% of the producing citizenry." That's what you meant to say.
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  15. 👍👍👍
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  16. The language barrier (more specifically, the writing differences) was the biggest confounding factor for early Japanese software developers. Still is.
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  17. "Parties served as simple shells for their candidates. People voted for the party simple because they wanted to vote for the candidate." Say what now? Having trouble parsing this bit at ~6:30.
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  18. Actually, only poseurs pronounce it "shah." It's more commonly spoken by saying each letter: "es aitch ay two fifty-six."
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  19. We were terrified that they were good at everything. They're going to buy the Statue of Liberty! Panic in the streets!
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  20. A prompt grants you access to a peripheral sensor (the keyboard, usually) and gives you the opportunity to enter a command, hence the term "command prompt."
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  21. /sub-SIS-tence/
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  22. Torvalds and I are the same age. And who was the stinky guy? Is he still around?
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  23. None of this progress happens (the Brits getting rightfully spanked) without the rules-based world order. And you don't get a rules-based world order unless the rules are enforced. Thugs like Russia must not be allowed to prevail.
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  24. Yup. Stuff's just gross.
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  25.  @didxogns1  : Nonsense.
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  26. You can invest in currency. It's essentially a commodity market with its own exchanges and whatnot. It's literally the largest market in the world. I'm being gentle with you because I realize you could be a kid. Now go do some Googling, young person.
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  27. The cadence of your voice sounds weird (as compared to past videos). Just a heads-up, in case it's not just me.
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  28. It's the cost of abstraction. It's QA. I wrote an article once on software unit testing and how to semi-automate it. In Hardwarelandia, this all started with math "co-processors." Now we have insane levels of logic implemented in nanoscale circuits. When is a "chip" no longer a "chip?"
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  29. KAH-ZOCK-STAN. Why're you putting an extra "I" in there? JFC.
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  30. TRAP EVERYTHING!
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  31. Fabs are the new oil and gas wells. If you can't dig, if you can't build a derrick and a pumping machine and whatnot, that energy is staying in the ground.
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  32. Wait, what are talking about @ ~2:25? Err, how do you transmit a video feed from a UAV (Pointer) to the ground via a fiber optic cable? Derp.
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  33. Sounds like he's got the 'rona! Get well soon!
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  34. Consumer-facing software versioning is one of the greatest scams of the Anthropocene.
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  35. Yeah....umm...I don't think you understand the implications of re-tooling a 200 for 300. Not only super-expensive depreciable plant upgrades, but the maintenance is a whole different level of $$$. Nah, run the legacies at full steam and build new 300s. I mean, every company's in a different situation, but, generally speaking, I don't agree with your guidance. Interesting stock collage though. 👍👍👍
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  36. Deja vu?
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  37. Another hand up for the pearl video. ✋
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  38. 👍👍👍
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  39. 👍👍👍
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  40. Pleasantly surprised. Thanks, Mr. Algorithm. Burnt-out old software developers like me love this.
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  41.  @diegogmx2000  : 100%.
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  42. sto-KAS-tic
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  43. Bitcoin is like a Chia Pet if a Chia Pet could come to life and eat your face off.
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  44. Hang on. I've already seen this video, yes?
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  45. So close!
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  46. You don't have to actually render any sort of prototype to get a patent.
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  47. 🤣🤣🤣
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  48. 👍👍👍
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  49. 👍👍👍
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  50. See, that's exactly the problem I have with China. It's too easy to criticize their decisions, from the veteran Western capitalist perspective, bec---. No. I'll keep it short. My problem is that so much of their stuff---no matter how "obvious" it seems to us---isn't illogical. They aren't internally inconsistent. It's like, so often. I get what they're trying to accomplish, and I see how this or that solution seems appealing and perfectly reasonable. But the corruption, and the problem of succession. The fundamental problems of intrastate communication and trust. They are coming around to the understanding that, at this point in time, it's all about quality of life. And we, in West, know how to do this. We aren't a threat to you, China. We can work all this out. You need to step away from Russia, at the very least. Right now.
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