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No, next question. In all seriousness, I don't know what impossibly high bar this article is setting for "new things" but innovation happens every day in softw
by munk-a 5y ago
No, next question.
In all seriousness, I don't know what impossibly high bar this article is setting for "new things" but innovation happens every day in software engineering - I'm not saying each one of us is accomplishing Turing level stuff on a daily basis, but somewhere somebody is definitely creating something brand new right now - and something that's highly useful. New packages and libraries are constantly rolled out that try and approach problems from different angles - whether these are branded as innovative is entirely a matter of opinion but I'm of the camp that building a tool that makes someone's life easier that didn't previously exist is easily in the camp of an innovation.
But, if your standard for innovation is the polio vaccine (or other once in a decade or once in a century discoveries) then yea - we probably have gone two years without a once in a decade innovation - simply because probability.
- jdrc 5y ago> "new things" Things that feel new > innovation happens every day in software engineering Who cares if innovation happens in ink pens if no good novels are written?
- munk-a 5y ago> Who cares if innovation happens in ink pens if no good novels are written? The people who got ink on their fingers writing bad novels with the old pens. Not every innovation needs to directly impact everybody - and maybe some of those bad novel authors decided to become novel authors because the pens got easier to use and maybe they could have written a good novel. That new thing feeling is pretty darn subjective - smart phones never felt new to me. I used a flip phone and a tablet for a long time, the tablet was basically a more portable laptop - and when I actually got a smart phone it was just a slightly smaller tablet.