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The camps are wrong. There's poles. 1. Is folks constantly adopting the new tech, whatever the motivation, and 2. I learned a thing and shall never learn any
by ownagefool 11mo ago
The camps are wrong.
There's poles.
1. Is folks constantly adopting the new tech, whatever the motivation, and
2. I learned a thing and shall never learn anything else, ever.
Of course nobody exists actually on either pole, but the closer you are to either, the less pragmatic you are likely to be.
- wosined 11mo agoI am the third pole: 3. Everything we have currently sucks and what is new will suck for some hitherto unknown reason.
- ownagefool 11mo agoHeh, me too. I think it's still just 2 poles. However, I probably shouldn't have prescribed motivation to latter pole, as I purposely did not with the former. Pole 2 is simply never adopt anything new ever, for whatever the motivation.
- antonvs 11mo agoIf you choose wisely, things should suck less overall as you move forward. That's kind of the overall goal, otherwise we'd all still be toggling raw machine code into machines using switches.
- wosined 11mo agoComputers got faster, software is not so straightforward. I don't even know why a text webpage needs 100mb of memory to render and display.
- binarymax 11mo agoThis is it right here. My foil is the Elasticsearch replacement because PG has inverted indices. The ergonomics and tunability of these in PG are terrible compared to ES. Yes, it will search, but I wouldn’t want to be involved in constructing or maintaining that search.
- jppope 11mo agoSo 1. RDD 2. Curmudgeon and 3. People who rationally look at the problem and try to solve it in the best way possible (omitted in the article)