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Unfortunately from my experience, people thinking that background technology choices can give them a consumer advantage is not that uncommon.
by weego 12y ago
Unfortunately from my experience, people thinking that background technology choices can give them a consumer advantage is not that uncommon.
- kysol 12y agoThat or more hardware to overcome bottlenecks caused by bad code. "It's running slow, we need more memory!". After some investigation, really... you've got 8 joins without using keys, and you're getting paid more than us how?
- mdonohue 12y agoFYI, that includes pg's thinking on the use of lisp for viaweb http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
- coldtea 12y ago>FYI, that includes pg's thinking on the use of lisp for viaweb Yeah, I for one think this was equally flawed. People have made succesful and quickly iteratable web services/apps in all kinds of languages, including Perl and PHP. Plus, one single data source like pg had is never that accurate, plus the fact he and Martin were already Lisp guru s helped them in their use of it.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoWell, they're right pretty much by definition - otherwise it wouldn't matter at all what technology you use. You could code your CRUDs in Brainfuck connected to MongoDB. In real world, you gain consumer advantage by e.g. chosing right database for the problem, or playing to language's strengths (which is what pg done at Viaweb).
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- conradfr 12y agoSo true, while neglecting UI and usability. I guess developers hate that for people UI is your product. Spend months rewriting the most beautiful backend and nobody care, redesign a button and everyone is excited.