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Well of course it's true that once a field gets to a moderate size, someone's been everywhere before. This comment section is littered with "ah but X looked at
by lordnacho 6y ago
Well of course it's true that once a field gets to a moderate size, someone's been everywhere before. This comment section is littered with "ah but X looked at this in the 1980s".
What seems to have happened since the 90s is we have a lot of ergonomic improvements, which are still valuable. Want to run something in a cloud in 1995? Yes, you can do it, but it's vastly simpler and cheaper to do in 2020.
In the end the major things that have changed are that computing power got much cheaper, and computing has become part of a vast number of businesses. That's why a fashion retailer can now click some buttons and make a website. Or why there's an AI that can beat everyone at StarCraft II.