Software engineers often find themselves in a world that seems contradictory. On the one hand, the amount of work our computers do just to watch a Flash video is truly staggering. On the other hand, half the time our computers slow to a grinding halt and crash when we try to watch a Flash video.

We have home internet connections that allow us to download high definition movies in a matter of 15 minutes. But as soon as someone starts trying to download one of those movies, everybody else on the network finds their connection slowed to an unusable crawl.

Look at how far we’ve come! …and how far away we still are.

If you want to share in the misery that is the world of computers, come join me at my new site, ibtsocs.com, short for “I Bemoan The State Of Computer Science”, an expression of all that is right but still wrong. It’s like FML, but for developers.

Note: I’ve been holding onto the domain for about a month now, but I decided to build the site last night. As such, it’s just about the most hacked together thing you can imagine. Which really seems to fit in with the theme of the website. Expect more features to come soon!

Meanwhile, this blog post was thrown together in about 5 minutes to make this week’s deadline for the Iron Blogger event. Hence the lack of eloquence or even interesting commentary on what a crazy idea it is to decide to throw a website together in 8 hours.

Tags: ibtsocs, launch, website

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