Simple Made Easy - Prime Reacts

Prime pre-watched this, forgot about it, then post-watched it with us

"Employers don't respect tribal knowledge" - I'll say they often actively work against it, and resent it.

Oh man - as a long time fan of Hickey's talks, watching prime react to this is like two totally different worlds colliding in the best way.

I feel Prime's Docker comment "it works on every machine but mine" so so deeply

"How can we possibly make things that are reliable that we don't understand?" Bro just accidentally dropped the biggest nuke on AI bros edit: timestamp 24:44

You know a thing is good when prime doesnt talk for 20 seconds

@45:35 — my mom was also in her late 60s when she decided, with no creative computer experience, and a kind of dislike of techie crap, that she wanted to have a big surprise party for my stepdad, with a ton of people, in a local banquet hall, and she went around interviewing family members, and his coworkers, and step-by-step taught herself all of video editing, and that was, like, 15-20 years ago, when there wasn't nearly as much online help for all of it. She made something like a 2-hour video full of humor, interviews, voiceovers, musical tracks, title screens, and it was all actually good. I went to a top art school, and had a video editing class, and that thing was more work than I ever put into any video I've ever made. It kept everyone's attention, and made people laugh throughout the whole thing. Super impressive. A big part of it was that she just has really good taste, and good ideas, so the video editing was more like a means to an end. She didn't need to look around for ideas about how she wanted it. She saw it in her mind, from a lifetime of watching documentaries and movies, and then she just had to keep looking up the names for things, and how to implement them.

This talk almost needs an accompanying case study. A real example project 'simplified'.

"ORMs feel great until they don't", I think that right there is the absolute best way to describe complex easy solutions.

Drop of dark liquid in a vase... I think that was a variation on: If you drop a spoonful of fine wine into a barrel of sewage, what do you have? A barrel of sewage. If you drop a spoonful of sewage into a barrel of fine wine, what do you have? A barrel of sewage.