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Everything's+Amazing+ +Nobody's+Happy

Matt Bedard · 3.8M views · 2014-01-04 · 4:12

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A short clip of Louis C.K.'s Conan interview riff 'Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy', about how people take modern technology for granted and complain about marvels.

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HN uses it as a reference when commenters want to point out how quickly people forget the wonder of modern technology and complain anyway.

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acqq · 2015-12 · Reference

> leads to fool's errands like this: >> It’s time to kill the aimless, bottom-up, ad-hoc incrementalism in programming in favor of purposeful, top-bottom and planned innovation. Agree. Let the author put his money where his mouth is first, then we can discuss where he's right. He wants programming to be "easier." Well everybody wants everything easier. It's easy to have just one thing easy scarifying other dependencies. But the limitations exist everywhere. And it was damn hard to even come this far and maintain the state we are here now: Louis C.K's take: [VIDEO]

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chii · 2015-06 · Joke / meme

and yet only 100 years ago, it would've taken you months to travel across the continents to the otherside of the world...how quickly mentality changes! [VIDEO]

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meesterdude · 2015-06 · Reference

> When I bought my first house, using money earned from co-founding a software company, I couldn’t believe that such abstract work could be exchanged for something so big and tangible, hewn from forests and rocks by people sweating in the sun. I've been writing software for years, and it still feels like magic. People work 3x as hard as me and I make 3x as much as them. Many make real, physical things; i just type away on a keyboard. With the right incantations, you can build something that's worth millions. Just you, in your free time, creating something that can be used by the entire world. Always reminds me of this louie CK interview on conan: [VIDEO]

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