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This field doesn’t do well on long-term thinking. Even if all this turns out to be a net loss, it will be reinterpreted as a win and just an opportunity for eve
by elktown 7mo ago
This field doesn’t do well on long-term thinking. Even if all this turns out to be a net loss, it will be reinterpreted as a win and just an opportunity for even more of the same solution. There are numerous examples of this, e.g. the OOP craze. Tech is a stock market of ideas and HN is a trading floor. The “line goes up” logic applies - not merit.
- pjc50 7mo agoDescribing OOP as a "craze" is incredibly out of touch. It's been a thing for, what, three decades?
- the-smug-one 7mo agoThere certainly was an OOP craze, that's not out of touch to talk about.
- Marazan 7mo agoAbstractBeanFactoryFactoryInterfaceBeanContextFactoryBeanBean.java
- elktown 7mo agoI'm sure I'm not the first person you've seen hinting at OOP (and all that came with it) having been hyped up beyond its merits.
- Planktonne 7mo agoOOP is great. "OOP is the one perfect paradigm for all coding" was the craze.
- foobiekr 7mo agoYou may not recall the crazy era of OOP where people would go bonkers with massive object trees trying to objectify everything and using operator overloading to do (dumb) things like adding a control to a window with +=.