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I cannot stand this kind of comment. It's worse than nerd sniping. Rude for no reason, not curious, not intellectually stimulating. Reddit level drivel. Perhap

by voz_ 5y ago

I cannot stand this kind of comment. It's worse than nerd sniping. Rude for no reason, not curious, not intellectually stimulating. Reddit level drivel. Perhaps a better question would be - for public or enterprise facing projects of similar budget, why is the perceived $X/$Y/$Z so much lower? That is a discussion worth having, and can help unpack your bias and assumptions into a worthwhile conversation.

dekhn 5y ago
As other people have replied, differing missions and costs of failure explain most of this, although in my opinion CADT in web development is actually the primary problem. I won't link the jwz's essay here for good reason. In short, the expansion of the web economy has allowed for incredibly lazy programming, being done by minimally qualified people, mostly motivated by short term gains, who consistently forget the expensive lessons of previous generations. The original web technologies were fairly good- HTTP and HTML both addressed a need, and I think they were sound (never liked html's derivation from sgml, though, and I don't agree with HTTP's decision to be stateless) but so much of what's sprung up since has evolved with no real natural selection.