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A restatement of the old dichotomy: the rebel alliance of young, creative, anarchist hackers who are more interested in fun versus the empire of old, methodical
by anvandare 14y ago
A restatement of the old dichotomy: the rebel alliance of young, creative, anarchist hackers who are more interested in fun versus the empire of old, methodical, hierarchical business-programmers who bean-count every line of documentation and analysis.
- mjn 14y agoOther related, though not entirely equivalent ways of putting it: the Richard Gabriel distinction between the 'MIT' and 'New Jersey' approaches, and the old debate between scientifically optimized central planning versus the chaos (and possibly emergent order) of the marketplace.
- Morcane 14y agoYou mean the business-programmers that are called in to maintain (and refactor)the creative, anarchist mess creative, anarchist hackers created?