it is super weird to me that the "technology moves so fast" trope is still rumbling away, when it isn't technology that moves fast but *products* and *vendors*
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Replying to @doriantaylor
And fashion… don’t forget fashion. Functional -> OOP -> functional -> reactive… distributed, centralised, Cloud, edge, P2P, distributed… compiled, static, dynamic, interpreted… min dependencies, many dependencies, etc.
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i was just thinking for a moment what mechanism underpinning programming fashions: like to what extent "company X got economically successful by using strategy Y, so let's be like company X" comes into play vs other mechanisms
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I think we see a lot of this in relation to ‘cloud/Google scale’ conversations where companies adopt technologies simply because it’s what Google/Amazon uses and they believe they will soon have Google/Amazon scale problems.
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i remember sitting on the floor of a data centre in i'm gonna say 2008 with a friend of mine, her website was making her a couple million a year, there were 4 boxes in the cage
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Yeah, it’s amazing the number of businesses that we’re originally built on LAMP running on just a couple of minimal spec boxes with a very small team.
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(though i would never use php in a million years)
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(err that was in reference to LAMP: i can't remember what pinboard is made out of)
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This thread was perfect
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