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Looks like the honeymoon is still ongoing.

by neolog 6y ago

saagarjha 6y ago
A sign of a good marriage is that you never feel like you’ve come out of honeymoon, so I think they have likely made the right choice :)
- neolog 6y ago
  > A sign of a good marriage is that you never feel like you’ve come out of honeymoon Does that happen for some couples?
  - rabidrat 6y ago
    Apparently some small percentage of couples do experience this. I don't think it's some magical "marriage made in heaven"; my theory is that some small number of people have a superhealthy relationship with their ego, and so don't need to differentiate (which is what causes the honeymoon-leaving), and if you get two of them together, they can stay in the honeymoon state indefinitely.
  - Drdrdrq 6y ago
    Yes. Some fight on the honeymoon already.
    - saagarjha 6y ago
      Better early than late?
blub 6y ago
Honeymoon meets guerilla marketing. After a point the lines between a technical blog post, personal brand building and advertising for one's startup/new project become too blurry... Makes one long for the days when ads were shown in pop-ups and you could at least close them. And the ad people did warn us this would happen :-)
b0rsuk 6y ago
I think a better analogy here might be Citizen Kane. From a foreigner's perspective, Citizen Kane is a (very) good movie but really nothing special. I enjoyed Rashomon a lot more. However, Rashomon was clearly inspired by it. To really understand the appeal and significance of CK, you have to compare it to movies before it. The reason CK doesn't amaze many people anymore is because everyone now uses these cinematographic techniques! In similar vein, the first Half Life game was groundbreaking and pioneered new ways of story telling. But if you don't remember earlier games, you may be scratching your head. Every now and then a programming language comes out that is a gamechanger. Such a language won't get out of fashion unless new programming languages start building upon it. I can't say if Rust is one of them. I don't have a long career in programming, and I know only a few languages, but I'd say Python is one of the languages that managed to set the bar for others. It's still going strong, but it's no longer turning heads with its usability and clear syntax.

Looks like the honeymoon is still ongoing.

by neolog 6y ago

Looks like the honeymoon is still ongoing.

A sign of a good marriage is that you never feel like you’ve come out of honeymoon, so I think they have likely made the right choice :)

neolog 6y ago
> A sign of a good marriage is that you never feel like you’ve come out of honeymoon Does that happen for some couples?
- rabidrat 6y ago
  Apparently some small percentage of couples do experience this. I don't think it's some magical "marriage made in heaven"; my theory is that some small number of people have a superhealthy relationship with their ego, and so don't need to differentiate (which is what causes the honeymoon-leaving), and if you get two of them together, they can stay in the honeymoon state indefinitely.
- Drdrdrq 6y ago
  Yes. Some fight on the honeymoon already.
  - saagarjha 6y ago
    Better early than late?

blub 6y ago

Honeymoon meets guerilla marketing. After a point the lines between a technical blog post, personal brand building and advertising for one's startup/new project become too blurry... Makes one long for the days when ads were shown in pop-ups and you could at least close them. And the ad people did warn us this would happen :-)

b0rsuk 6y ago

I think a better analogy here might be Citizen Kane. From a foreigner's perspective, Citizen Kane is a (very) good movie but really nothing special. I enjoyed Rashomon a lot more. However, Rashomon was clearly inspired by it. To really understand the appeal and significance of CK, you have to compare it to movies before it. The reason CK doesn't amaze many people anymore is because everyone now uses these cinematographic techniques! In similar vein, the first Half Life game was groundbreaking and pioneered new ways of story telling. But if you don't remember earlier games, you may be scratching your head. Every now and then a programming language comes out that is a gamechanger. Such a language won't get out of fashion unless new programming languages start building upon it. I can't say if Rust is one of them. I don't have a long career in programming, and I know only a few languages, but I'd say Python is one of the languages that managed to set the bar for others. It's still going strong, but it's no longer turning heads with its usability and clear syntax.