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New comment by oblio in "Lovable raises $400M Series C"

oblio — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:50:27 +0000

Meh. Have you tried to sell basic software? It's been cheap or free since the shareware days of the early 90s.

Most devs weren't being paid out of that.

New comment by oblio in "Lovable raises $400M Series C"

oblio — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:20:44 +0000

The whole business model is poisonous and extractive. 90% of the businesses launched aren't valid, and then the few that are get bought up by oligopolists/monopolists.

New comment by oblio in "Lovable raises $400M Series C"

oblio — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:19:10 +0000

Regular SaaS businesses are not capital intensive once launched, they're mostly pure software plays. Their marginal user cost trends towards 0.

This stuff isn't hard if you keep an open mind.

New comment by oblio in "Lovable raises $400M Series C"

oblio — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:46:59 +0000

Good stuff isn't a single prompt. It's multiple prompts, refinements, building a moat.

Otherwise the single prompt stuff is fodder for a million clones.

New comment by oblio in "Lovable raises $400M Series C"

oblio — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:44:45 +0000

> at least I’d imagine that’s what happens - Claude just knows how to manage AWS for you

AWS has $100+bn reasons per year to not let that happen. As techies learned slowly through the evolution of the internet: political power > money > tech.

New comment by oblio in "Lovable raises $400M Series C"

oblio — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:41:59 +0000

It won't be, until either the runway or the economic cycle end, whichever comes first.

New comment by oblio in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

oblio — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:44:24 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness

The term is 28 years old.

New comment by oblio in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

oblio — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:30:39 +0000

I'm 99.99% sure your audience is tech people.

New comment by oblio in "Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available"

oblio — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:06:06 +0000

Turbo Pascal was the go to IDE for small commercial apps for quite a few years after its release.

New comment by oblio in "Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard"

oblio — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:16:33 +0000

On what? OS/2 didn't fail due to lacking software optimization.

New comment by oblio in "Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard"

oblio — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:23:04 +0000

If China makes half decent RAM I would bet more on things like 128GM of RAM being the default on low spec laptops 10 years from now.

While I do love optimized software, the hardware side, especially for PCs, has been stagnating for way too long. At least now we have a valid use case for doubling available RAM every 2-3 years again.

I had a reasonably beefy Lenovo consumer line laptop that I bought in 2011, 8GBs of RAM. Its screen hinge broke and I couldn't repair it but I'm fairly sure it was otherwise still usable in 2023-24, once the HDD was replaced with an SSD. I think even now entry level laptops are sold with 8GB of RAM.

By comparison a PC from 2000 was utterly unusable in 2012-13.

New comment by oblio in "Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard"

oblio — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:18:35 +0000

It's a bad bet, historically.

I'm having an extremely hard time thinking of companies that have prospered due to software optimization. Most of them were swept away by hardware advances, instead.

New comment by oblio in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

oblio — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:15:12 +0000

> not even Google can afford to devote enough compute to each query to reliably generate quality results

https://www.dw.com/en/german-court-holds-google-liable-for-f...

New comment by oblio in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

oblio — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:13:47 +0000

> People created things out of passion, or boredom. We can returned to that scheme.

Turns out, people want food and shelter more than entertainment. And psycho billionaires want money more than fun.

New comment by oblio in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

oblio — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:10:30 +0000

Incentives. Which is why platforms (such as search) should never be allowed to be in the same company with things built on top of them (such as ads), if the combined company is significant for an important market.

We used to know better, Standard Oil vertical integration was dismantled.

New comment by oblio in "Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail"

oblio — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:49:20 +0000

Microsoft was early and late to lots of things. They dominated early smartphones, too.

New comment by oblio in "Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail"

oblio — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:22:55 +0000

Let's be real here. JavaScript didn't take off because it was functional in the functional programming sense. It took off because it was built in and procedural. You didn't need to muck around with objects if you were a total noob. You'd just write your functions and call them with strings as parameters.

New comment by oblio in "Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail"

oblio — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:19:16 +0000

Gmail was the original AJAX woah! JavaScript application.

New comment by oblio in "Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail"

oblio — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:25:01 +0000

I'll be blunt about this:

It's probably also the reason statistically no one will be employed to work on a Haskell code base. Same for Lisp, F#, OCaml, etc. They're the hot rods of the software development world where everyone uses SUVs.

New comment by oblio in "Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail"

oblio — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:23:24 +0000

Libraries and frameworks and package management absolutely matter. They're not some abstract thing, they could be the difference between something being done in 6 months or in 2 years.

Why do you think people put up with Spring?