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I think we're still in the "phlogiston" era of software development.

• ben_w 2y ago
  That good? I think we're more like Pythagoras: some useful theory about numbers, taken way too far and became an actual religion[0] listening to the Delphic[1] Oracle[2]. [0] Tabs or spaces? Vi or emacs? Is the singularity the rapture of the nerds, with Roko's Basalisk as the devil and ${insert name here according to personal taste} as the antichrist? SOLID or move fast and break things? vs. really a real religion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoreanism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoreanism [1] Not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_(software) but rather https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi [2] Not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation but rather https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle