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Popularity is itself an engineering merit.
by loeg 3y ago
Popularity is itself an engineering merit.
- amno 3y agoYeah, if you have $500M (half a billion of USD) to spend on marketing, like Sun Microsystems poured into Java, you must have some engineering merit behind you. Not necessarily in the thing you market.
- quickthrower2 3y agoSocial Engineering
- crabbone 3y agoMerit? -- maybe. Engineering? -- definitely no. This is why I used this word in the first place. I mean, I understand this is an attempt at being a snarky remark, but it gets really annoying as a joke that a lot of people repeat to the point they start believing it's true.