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> this particular one has the interesting side effect of causing mass hysteria in the otherwise rational tech sector. * Y2K * Dot Com hysteria * Dot Com cras
by tezza 8y ago
> this particular one has the interesting side effect of causing mass hysteria in the otherwise rational tech sector.
* Y2K
* Dot Com hysteria
* Dot Com crash hysteria
* AWS outages
* Will robots replace us ?
* Will Microsoft crush me ?
* Will Google crush me ?
* I just raised £30M series A, where my Aeron at
* Nosql means I can throw away everything I knew about databases
* Web first
* Mobile first
* XML everywhere
* OO everywhere
* Javascript everywhere
* AI everywhere
Where is the evidence for rational behaviour ?
- pjc50 8y agoY2K is one rare example where all the panic actually got the problem fixed. The dotcom crash was definitely real with huge job losses too.
- horseLOGIC 8y agoI chuckled at that sentence as well. It's not that the tech sector is rational, it's that a lot of the people working in it are desperate to maintain a self-image of being a rational, scientific-minded person. Then, if some evidence collides with that self-image, we just blame it on management. Problem solved!