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This to me is one more link in the chain of evidence that this is not just the 2000 bubble rehashed. Not just different people but different kinds of people are

This to me is one more link in the chain of evidence that this is not just the 2000 bubble rehashed. Not just different people but different kinds of people are in charge this time, different methods are being employed. The focus is less on sheen and who has the biggest flagpole or best in house sushi chef and more on results and methods. I like that a little, even on the chance that it does fail again at least this time it will be on our terms.

jrockway 15y ago
I think this just means that software and software development is cheaper this time around. Back in the day, your CRUD app needed a proprietary compiler using proprietary libraries running on a proprietary operating system talking to a proprietary database. This cost mucho money, and was super buggy. So you needed a lot of smart programmers and a lot of time to get anything that worked. These days, you just use Ruby or Perl or something and its 100x faster to develop and probably runs faster than 1999 C++ on a mainframe did. So there goes your main cost. (Netscape is a good example from that era. Not that great a piece of software -- it ran super slow and needed a lot of people to write it.) Also, good startups are pretty easy to do with just one person. So when you only have one or two people, you don't need flashy offices or sushi chefs... you just rent a nice apartment and order out. Expensive, but much cheaper than what people did in 1999.
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  - w1ntermute 15y ago
    It's not that you didn't have to hire them, it's that hiring them was a luxury you usually couldn't afford after you'd paid for everything else.
- hncommenter13 15y ago
  Just for the record, as someone who worked on web apps in 1999, we used Perl + MySql. No, they were nowhere near as effective as those tools and others are today, but I didn't know anyone using a mainframe. We did use expensive Sun gear instead of cheap linux boxes, though.
- chopsueyar 15y ago
  Don't forget the proprietary iron.
trotsky 15y ago
Look at some of the other "TC Cribs" features that they've done.

jrockway 15y ago

I think this just means that software and software development is cheaper this time around. Back in the day, your CRUD app needed a proprietary compiler using proprietary libraries running on a proprietary operating system talking to a proprietary database. This cost mucho money, and was super buggy. So you needed a lot of smart programmers and a lot of time to get anything that worked. These days, you just use Ruby or Perl or something and its 100x faster to develop and probably runs faster than 1999 C++ on a mainframe did. So there goes your main cost. (Netscape is a good example from that era. Not that great a piece of software -- it ran super slow and needed a lot of people to write it.) Also, good startups are pretty easy to do with just one person. So when you only have one or two people, you don't need flashy offices or sushi chefs... you just rent a nice apartment and order out. Expensive, but much cheaper than what people did in 1999.

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- w1ntermute 15y ago
  It's not that you didn't have to hire them, it's that hiring them was a luxury you usually couldn't afford after you'd paid for everything else.
hncommenter13 15y ago
Just for the record, as someone who worked on web apps in 1999, we used Perl + MySql. No, they were nowhere near as effective as those tools and others are today, but I didn't know anyone using a mainframe. We did use expensive Sun gear instead of cheap linux boxes, though.
chopsueyar 15y ago
Don't forget the proprietary iron.

trotsky 15y ago

Look at some of the other "TC Cribs" features that they've done.