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The web is totally broken. It's not symmetric.Easy to read stuff, very difficult to write stuff. We ave a community of users who engage passively by reading stuff, they do not write stuff.

— Joe Armstrong

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This is a thing that really scares me, are people developing large applications that they don’t understand.

"Messages take time", and they propagate through space, there’s no guarantee it gets there.

If somebody puts a big list of things up, my question is always: what is the most important thing on that list.

Up to now, declarative programming languages such as Prolog or ML have not been used for real-time applications.

This [showing his smartphone] is about a million time more powerful than the computer but the computer was developed on.

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