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Note that my comment was observational, I'm not saying companies should use Windows, and I'm not even talking about reasons for using one tech stack or another.
by vector_spaces 2y ago
Note that my comment was observational, I'm not saying companies should use Windows, and I'm not even talking about reasons for using one tech stack or another. I'm just reminding the parent that this association of Windows with "non-technical" is nonsense -- lots of extremely talented folks work on difficult and important problems and critical systems on Windows, targeting Microsoft stacks. Further, it seems likely that most software is written on Windows.
- oooyay 2y agoYeap, that's all fair. I was mainly poking at your word choice of "phenomenon" because it can be reasoned. I'm not quite sure about your last sentence but that's an entirely different discussion with much more noise than signal to parse through.
- yen223 2y ago"Phenomenon" just means "thing that can be observed". It doesn't need to mean something that is unusual or surprising.
- oooyay 2y agoHuh; according to Merriam-Webster the word has basically lost meaning: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phenomenon https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phenomenon The first definition is how you and OP used it, the second is how I used it (exclusive of things that can be "sensed" as opposed to reasoned).
- thrdbndndn 2y agoI think your usage is actually more like definition 3.