Post #1944411
2023-09-17 09:02 UTC
i reckon all software developers should read this thread. it's incredible. literally everything is here. entire books could be written about it
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=120627&p=515618
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@jk@mastodon.social 2023-09-17 09:07
users desire a practical feature, however a developer, instead, desires an opportunity to explain why the data structures of enough video formats resemble one-way linked-lists so the feature is "algorithmically impossible", users counter with examples of other pieces of software that implement the feature, the gymnastics begin, and it becomes apparent to us, if not the people involved, that a fundamental philosophical debate is occurring about the nature of what 'solving a problem' even means