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It's another way to favor incumbents with huge resources: it's an anti-competitive psyop to raise barriers to entry and stymie startups in endless shiny thing c
by graderjs 5y ago
It's another way to favor incumbents with huge resources: it's an anti-competitive psyop to raise barriers to entry and stymie startups in endless shiny thing chasing, because the incumbents are scared of the disruption, so those big players that move a bit slower, seek ways to slow down the scrappy players that can move fast, while those "fast movers" get drunk on the koolaid of buzzwords manufactured on blogs from those incumbents, and trends like being agile, microservices, etc, while willingly injecting themselves with massive technical debt from overcomplicated frameworks, and nobody's allowed to question it otherwise it's civil flame war.
Even if you don't believe it's a conspiracy, you have to admit that: that dynamic favors incumbents, the big frameworks often come from the big incumbents, and if you are a big incumbent even if you weren't manufacturing this conspiracy but you saw its possibility I mean why not take advantage of it?
The outlier is the scrappy indie developer like Peter levels who runs his multi-million dollar a year business on his own basically on a single machine using PHP and only recently started using git. That may be an extreme example but it paints a picture of what radical effectiveness and efficiency looks like and it's vastly different to the Kool-Aid but don't mention it otherwise the mob will come for you.
May the no-code & indie scene save us all. Amen
- Bancakes 5y agoDid you learn the word 'incumbent' yesterday?
- graderjs 5y agoAaw, so cute. My smart piece threatened you and you want to prove you're smarter than me. Nice try but you failed.... I learn all the time, you should try it. XD
- Bancakes 5y agoI saw your original post and your cringe edited one. I won't even comment.
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- graderjs 5y agoOh don't cringe, it was made for you, Haha. I guess you're cringing at your own daftness in the face of my brilliant comment. You were meant to see it. You mean this one? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap As for you not commenting, it seems that would be a good idea on your part. You keep trying, and keep failing. Do you often do things you say you won't? You lack self discipline? Anyway, thanks for obsessively checking my edits.
- maerF0x0 5y ago> nobody's allowed to question it otherwise it's civil flame war. With enough years in this industry I'm starting to see how much of the culture is just "cargo cult Silicone[sic] Valley!" -- People are doing things just because the latest/greatest unicorn did it that way, and frequently there is a form of Zen/Chan disregard of meaning or learnings from the past. "Move fast and break things" often plays out as "Disregard knowledge and act like there wont be consequences" . I frequently see threads/posts on HN by experienced people laughing that "we've known this since the 70s" in reference to The Mythical Man Month, or other bits from Computer Science, and yet most managers think they know better than decades of industry experience.