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I've given up on understanding most of these "hip" websites and products. If I can't quickly figure out exactly what the company does, I just use Wikipedia. Muc
by PhantomGremlin 11y ago
I've given up on understanding most of these "hip" websites and products. If I can't quickly figure out exactly what the company does, I just use Wikipedia. Much simpler.
For example, just a week ago we had a discussion here[1] about an aspect of Heroku. I didn't know what they did, so I visited their home page.[2] Lots of buzzwords and pretty little diagrams. But, for me, Wikipedia was so much better[3]. The first paragraph described it succinctly.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10088596 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10088596
[2] https://www.heroku.com/ https://www.heroku.com/
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroku https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroku
- wkoszek 11y ago2nd good example in this thread. Funny thing is how they also hyde stuff behind made up naming: "dynos". But Heroku isn't alone. I started using OpenShift which has "gears" ...