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The comment was about the last decade? Seems kind of irrelevant to bring up an obstacle from the 90s. > Over-monetizing their dev tooling was a significant con
by dataflow 6y ago
The comment was about the last decade? Seems kind of irrelevant to bring up an obstacle from the 90s.
> Over-monetizing their dev tooling was a significant contributor to Microsoft's loss of dev mind-share over the last decade.
- fiddlerwoaroof 6y agoI don’t know about the author of that quote, but I mentally often think of the 90s as “last decade”
- dataflow 6y agoInteresting. Is that a reason behind it? I can see why the 2000s might seem like "last decade" (it might still feel like the 2010s), but the 90s are another decade behind...
- mitchdoogle 6y agoBecause the human brain perceives time in odd ways.
- fiddlerwoaroof 6y agoI don’t really know, but Y2K and 9/11 were fairly notable in a way that most of the other decade transitions weren’t. I also don’t really know if this is common: but the individual years of my adult life just seem less real than my childhood for some reason.
- watt 6y agoThat joke was funny 10 years ago.
- ludamad 6y agoClearly his directly outer conscience thinks it's the 2010s
- mitchdoogle 6y agoIt's probably not a joke. Many people report things like this when talking about time. Our brains are just not that great at accurately thinking about long periods of time.