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I agree there's a lot of cargo-culting and bandwagon-ism nowadays. It's the result of there being lots of beginners who just want a recipe they can apply to pro
by _greim_ 10y ago
I agree there's a lot of cargo-culting and bandwagon-ism nowadays. It's the result of there being lots of beginners who just want a recipe they can apply to produce a certain result. I don't blame them for wanting that or for being beginners, or for being frustrated at the obvious madness of it all. What bothers me is the apparent lack of interest these people seem to have in understanding the history and trade-offs that got us here.
- gglitch 10y agoI'd love a factual and accurate report of that history and those trade-offs, even a book-length one on paper. Do you know of one? I'm not trying to do a dissertation on the subject, and it's not my day job, so weaving my own unreliable history out of Google searches and cranky blog posts is not ideal.