3 ms·

Yes but, thinking about this: Canada sells and sees itself as the good boys. The conformists. The least likely to rock the boat. The opposite of that Apple ad

Yes but, thinking about this: Canada sells and sees itself as the good boys. The conformists. The least likely to rock the boat. The opposite of that Apple ad essentially You can see that by how often they will go with proprietary solution, even for their startups/SMEs. "Oh why don't we do this in .NET" even when there are plenty of other solutions They will only risk the water only when they see other people way down. I'd say even Europe is not that bad in that sense.

logicchains 3y ago
>"Oh why don't we do this in .NET" even when there are plenty of other solutions That's an interesting idea for a metric: how many programming languages has Canada created relative to similarly sized countries?
- atgreen 3y ago
  Canada and Canadians are doing well here. You can start with Rust, PHP, and Java.
  - nvm0n2 3y ago
    This is about Canada, not Canadians. Rust and Java were created in the USA down the road from each other in California, by people working for US companies. Nobody is claiming there's some sort of genetic difference that causes different levels of entrepreneurship, it's clearly all cultural. Take the Canadian out of Canada, make them report to American bosses and clearly they can create popular new software, no different to Europeans or Indians or Chinese ... the differences therefore must be related to government policy and culture.
    - atgreen 3y ago
      Rust was originally created in Canada, but your point is taken.
    - mthoms 3y ago
      >it's clearly all cultural. Take the Canadian out of Canada, make them report to American bosses and clearly they can create popular new software, no different to Europeans or Indians or Chinese ... the differences therefore must be related to government policy and culture. By default, most of the top-of-field Canadians work in the US because it's at least 50% more profitable (among other reasons). I agree with the premise about culture generally but you can't attribute all of it to culture. A great deal can be attributed to money and "ecosystems" around certain industries.
GiorgioG 3y ago
I wasn’t aware .NET was any more proprietary than anything else these days. Care to elaborate?

logicchains 3y ago

>"Oh why don't we do this in .NET" even when there are plenty of other solutions That's an interesting idea for a metric: how many programming languages has Canada created relative to similarly sized countries?

atgreen 3y ago
Canada and Canadians are doing well here. You can start with Rust, PHP, and Java.
- nvm0n2 3y ago
  This is about Canada, not Canadians. Rust and Java were created in the USA down the road from each other in California, by people working for US companies. Nobody is claiming there's some sort of genetic difference that causes different levels of entrepreneurship, it's clearly all cultural. Take the Canadian out of Canada, make them report to American bosses and clearly they can create popular new software, no different to Europeans or Indians or Chinese ... the differences therefore must be related to government policy and culture.
  - atgreen 3y ago
    Rust was originally created in Canada, but your point is taken.
  - mthoms 3y ago
    >it's clearly all cultural. Take the Canadian out of Canada, make them report to American bosses and clearly they can create popular new software, no different to Europeans or Indians or Chinese ... the differences therefore must be related to government policy and culture. By default, most of the top-of-field Canadians work in the US because it's at least 50% more profitable (among other reasons). I agree with the premise about culture generally but you can't attribute all of it to culture. A great deal can be attributed to money and "ecosystems" around certain industries.

GiorgioG 3y ago

I wasn’t aware .NET was any more proprietary than anything else these days. Care to elaborate?