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HN has extreme recency bias. I've been on here forever and things definitely get reinvented over and over again, and if it wasn't built in the last six months i
by api 3y ago
HN has extreme recency bias. I've been on here forever and things definitely get reinvented over and over again, and if it wasn't built in the last six months it's not cool.
- goodpoint 3y agoYou really struck a nerve there.
- nvy 3y ago>if it wasn't built in the last six months it's not cool. I feel like the perennial posts about lisp pretty handily demonstrate this to be false.
- baq 3y agoLisp is old enough that only wizards still use it, basically. Cool kids talk about lisp but actually host react on kubernetes and think it’s a good thing. We poor folks in between just chug along with our bare metal esxis and a master-slave replicated Postgres because it gets the job done, not despite it.
- nvy 3y agoI'm neither cool nor a wizard but I still wrote my algorithmic trading bot in common lisp. Also a Todo list web app.