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A feeling that skills once learned with difficulty are becoming obsolete? It's seeing every tiny bit of progress accompanied by ten steps backward as a new lan
by nitrogen 6y ago
A feeling that skills once learned with difficulty are becoming obsolete?
It's seeing every tiny bit of progress accompanied by ten steps backward as a new language community re-solves and then re-breaks things that were already figured out by other ecosystems. Most "progress" is just going in circles with NIH syndrome, plus a bit of counterproductive cargo culting whatever some famous company does.
New science is only accepted if it does a better job of explaining old problems and anticipating new ones. Every new tech should have to justify itself in the same way. If it's not giving you a clear superpower over what already exists, it's not worth using. If it does, then adopt it ASAP.
- Kaze404 6y agoThat's a very narrow minded view of technology in my opinion. People can create, re-solve and re-break whatever they want. If an unproven and untested technology makes its way into a system you deem critical, that's a flaw of management not of the technology itself.
- nitrogen 6y agoPeople can create, re-solve and re-break whatever they want. I agree with you here. On my own time I'm just now reimplementing a bunch of audio algorithms in nearly pure Ruby with a DSL just for fun and learning. But I'm not going to go give speeches about how much better the new way is than the old way, how anyone fighting my code is just a luddite who resists progress and is afraid to learn, and how all the doubters are on the wrong side of history.
- Kaze404 6y agoThat's fair enough. I think we agree that there needs to be a balance between the weird evangelism of new tools (I literally have psychological damage as consequence of previous experience with a Medium-obsessed CTO) and the cynicism I often see when it comes to those same new tools.