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    1. Dan Luu‏ @danluu 21 Nov 2017
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      How good are people at making decisions? http://danluu.com/bad-decisions/ 

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    2. Dan Luu‏ @danluu 21 Nov 2017
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      A side effect of the lack of data on practices is that charismatic people with compelling stories have outsized influence. How many folks learned Lisp because of this story? The two most valuable startups of that era (GOOG&AMZN) were Blub-based, but this story still has currencypic.twitter.com/mxZJd5kiu5

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    3. Dan Bentley‏ @dbentley 21 Nov 2017
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      I disagree on GOOG. Yes, the languages were blub, b/c their killer idiom was at another level: dist-sys. Protobufs,stubby,mapreduce,gfs

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    4. Dan Luu‏ @danluu 21 Nov 2017
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      That's the point! PG focused on languages and claimed Lisp would give companies a technical moat, but the companies that actually built technical moats did so on blub. The next startup to build great infra was arguably FB, despite using the blubbiest blub that ever blubbed.

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    5. mjmdavis‏ @mjmdavis 22 Nov 2017
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      It’s not about which language you use. It’s about affording developers the freedom to determine their own goals while putting product first. If developers don’t have the freedom to use Lisp, they probably don’t have the freedom to make the other decisions necessary for success.

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    6. mjmdavis‏ @mjmdavis 22 Nov 2017
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      So languages are indicative of healthy engineering practices but aren’t necessarily drivers of success.

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      Dan Luu‏ @danluu 22 Nov 2017
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      That's a common story, but you could also tell the opposite story just as easily. In fact, more easily since the two most successful companies of the era had strict language policies. Those companies also built the most impressive tech of the era!

      9:12 AM - 22 Nov 2017
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        2. mjmdavis‏ @mjmdavis 22 Nov 2017
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          Plenty of companies with strict language policies fail to produce anything impressive. I haven’t seen many companies/teams with strong engineering and product cultures fail. That said, I’m biased and don’t have a large sample.

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        3. mjmdavis‏ @mjmdavis 22 Nov 2017
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          I’m loving your work. Please keep it up :)

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