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The Spotify model was huge in Sweden. Everybody talked about it it seemed. I remember a joke about companies in the early 2000’s would say they used Java to en
by wodenokoto 4y ago
The Spotify model was huge in Sweden. Everybody talked about it it seemed.
I remember a joke about companies in the early 2000’s would say they used Java to encourage competitors to have development problems because “Java sucks, haha”.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the “Spotify model” has had adverse effects on the Swedish IT sector at large.
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- Akronymus 4y ago> I remember a joke about companies in the early 2000’s would say they used Java to encourage competitors to have development problems because “Java sucks, haha”. Reminds me of a story about some person using LISP for a ecommerce website and being quite about it because lisp allowed them to develop much faster than their competitors. Lemme try to track it down. Edit: beating the average http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
- wodenokoto 4y agoI do think that article sparked the joke, and it might have been a HN only joke.