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> This reaction to Ember just baffles me. Your day job is to build a piece of web software and you can’t take a few days to learn the ins and outs? Couldn't ag
by darxius 14y ago
> This reaction to Ember just baffles me. Your day job is to build a piece of web software and you can’t take a few days to learn the ins and outs?
Couldn't agree more. While I do think that new technology should be intuitive and easy to use, you have to take the time to explore, learn and familiarize yourself with it. I think peoples' attention spans are way too short these days.
- k3n 14y agoTime is money, and the larger your team is the more that the costs of learning a new tech are amplified. Using his off-the-cuff, totally subjective "a few days" estimate, and assigning 'few' at a conservative 2 days, that would mean my team would spend roughly 50 days doing nothing but learning this one very specific technology. That's 50 days of not producing revenue or otherwise addressing client concerns. Now, I'm not saying that we shouldn't be able to take time to do things like this (learn and embed new tech), but to dismissively say "a few days" like it's trivial is severely underestimating the impact of dropping everything during that time to do nothing but learn about a tech that will most likely be obsolete or superseded in only a few years time.