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The fact is, everyone already knows what the pertinent issues surrounding platform and tool choice are. I wholeheartedly disagree. Every day I read a blog pos
by MicahWedemeyer 17y ago
The fact is, everyone already knows what the pertinent issues surrounding platform and tool choice are.
I wholeheartedly disagree. Every day I read a blog post about some nefarious aspect of an api/platform/company that I had never considered.
For example, I'm glad people are exposing the inequalities of the app store. Without true stories from the inside, all we'd have to rely on are the media fluff pieces of "I rolled out of bed, hacked this little app, and became an insta-millionaire"
- tjogin 17y agoCertainly. For instance, how is App Store going to get better if nobody whines about its deficiencies? Criticizing the thing you care about is essential to its improvement. Secondly, telling people to shut up and stop complaining is a very odd thing to do, not only because the very act of doing so is contradictory, but also because instead of everybody else shutting up, how about just stop reading? Isn't that so much easier, for everybody involved?
- daleharvey 17y agoI agree, and while there is a of of redundancy across these blog posts, the count is very useful in gauging how large the problem is. please carry on telling us why you are/arent using the language / platform / tools you do/dont.
- raganwald 17y ago> the count is very useful in gauging how large the problem is. While I upmodded your comment, I disagree with this. There are a lot of problems with using social media as a metric for anything. For one thing, it suffers from information cascades. The presence of articles on a subject encourages others to write articles on the same subject and there is teh appearance of a snowball effect. But there may be absolutely no change in what people are doing, just a change in what people are discussing.
- daleharvey 17y agois definitely a fuzzy metric, I didnt mean that people should sit and count all the pro vs con posts, but the cascade works on both sides, everyone is talking about the iphone right now, if a bunch of people werent criticizing it I would see one article explaining the cons and 50 talking about how awesome it it.
- ubernostrum 17y agoThe first few articles pointing out problems are fine. Useful, even. The (sys.maxint+1)th "me too" variation of it? Not so much.