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Possibly related: “I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal a
by jl6 3y ago
Possibly related:
“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
— Douglas Adams
- zeroonetwothree 3y agoFor me the ages are more like <5 is normal, 5-20 is exciting and new, 20-35 is suspicious but I might still try it begrudgingly, and 36+ is nah I’m too for this. I’m in the last group now :) Although I also remember being 18 and meeting some 70+ year olds that were very adept at using computers/the web and that really impressed me.
- stavros 3y agoI don't know, I'm forty and LLMs are exciting as hell. If we're talking web frameworks, Django was the last good thing and there can never be any more innovation in that sector. In seriousness, though, a technology that lets me do things I couldn't do before is great. A technology that slightly reorganizes my code and makes it so I have to throw everything I have so far away, I'm less excited about. What motivates me is building things, which unfortunately means that I'll always reach for the tools I know, and only learn new tools if my current ones don't work, which is why I've been unable to learn Rust. With Django, I can get stuff done really quickly, and people don't care that it's not a SPA, they care that they can solve their problem with it.