"The income tax started at 3% only on rich people. By the 1950s, marginal rates were in the 90s."
Marc Andreessen warns California's proposed 5% asset tax on unrealized gains is following the same pl...
n 1995, Marc Andreessen was terrified that Microsoft was going to crush Netscape. He was the executive shouting, "We need an 'easy' scripting language inside the browser right now, or we lose the Web Components war!"
He gave Brendan Eich the green light to rush it out the door in 1995. If Marc had just given Eich six months instead of ten days, the entire landscape of modern software engineering would look completely different.
Instead, we got a language where typeof null equals "object".
So yes, for the last 30 years, every single developer pulling their hair out over a web production crash has been collectively screaming exactly that: "WTF, Marc?!"
He gave Brendan Eich the green light to rush it out the door in 1995. If Marc had just given Eich six months instead of ten days, the entire landscape of modern software engineering would look completely different.
Instead, we got a language where typeof null equals "object".
So yes, for the last 30 years, every single developer pulling their hair out over a web production crash has been collectively screaming exactly that: "WTF, Marc?!"