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Related to part of what you said. I've worked in a half dozen different industries; I've worked in little companies with a half-dozen employees and globe spanni
by EliRivers 5y ago
Related to part of what you said. I've worked in a half dozen different industries; I've worked in little companies with a half-dozen employees and globe spanning companies with tens of thousands and employees. They all think that they have special unique problems that nobody else has - 90% of it is the same problem I've seen in other companies in different industries, with different industry specific acronyms and words.
Every damn job, the same basic problems over and over, with the insistence that these problems are specific to the industry and usually to that specific company and that specific product.
- mirker 5y agoSame is true in academic research (though old-timers catch it often). The common pattern is: * approach “A” was invented in 1970 or so and didn’t work * “B” extends “A” in multiple ways and now works * noobs assume “B” invented “A” and treat “B” as the root of modern knowledge. “B” often has more market presence so noobs (without deep understanding) don’t see the relationship to prior attempts. Examples: * AlexNet/deep learning/ML in general * MapReduce/databases/functional programming primitives * Docker/chroot “Jail” Containers * Bitcoin/90s coins/blockchains Ego and ignorance are rarely a great combination :)
- doggodaddo78 5y agoThe Emperor's new clothes (TENC). Most people don't do history, especially the Dunning-Kruger afflicted. Docker (Linux containers) is, like jails: awful, leaky isolation pretending to be virtualization. If you want real resource and security containment, use virtualization. Docker is insecure in so many ways; it's like using PHP to write a TLS library.
- doggodaddo78 5y ago"NIH" duplication of effort with "IH" bugs. SMH. Will they ever learn?