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I agree that there are many developers like that, who don't jump at picking up new technologies, but I don't think those are the type of developers a startup li
by krobertson 15y ago
I agree that there are many developers like that, who don't jump at picking up new technologies, but I don't think those are the type of developers a startup like Digg would hire or attract.
More often, I think companies struggle to pick up a new technology than developers. When developers pick up something new, they usually dabble and start small, but Digg wasn't in the place where it could dabble and start small. When a company needs to pick up a new technology, they aren't doing it to dabble so much as fill a solid need.
They needed expertise in other places, so they needed to hire people with those skills already rather than wait for existing devs to get them and stumble along the way.
- ojbyrne 15y agoI think if you looked at the resumes of the developers involved, it would be obvious that Kevin is making shit up.
- jakejake 15y agoI almost accepted a job offer from Digg when they were at their peak. Kevin seems to be using "PHP" as though it is some kind of derogatory term for developers. I don't think that's very fair. My opinion is that Digg went off course with their major update fiasco which changed the nature of the site. It had nothing to do with the programming language. I have my own opinions about what made Digg great, and subsequently what made it not-so-great after that update, but I really don't think it had anything to do with PHP.