alt Hacker NewsThis was written over a decade ago. I'd take it in that context. Lots of the tech they're talking about was being cargo culted en-masse.
So yes, pick boring tech, defined as the tech you know the sharp edges of.
This was written over a decade ago. I'd take it in that context. Lots of the tech they're talking about was being cargo culted en-masse.
So yes, pick boring tech, defined as the tech you know the sharp edges of.
I don't think that context is relevant to my comment. I didn't say "in hindsight, those technologies are great!", I pointed out that "boring" is meaningless, and any meaning you attribute to it like "defined as the tech you know the sharp edges of" is better substituted in.
That is, if someone said two sentences, I would only care about the second one:
1. "We should use this because it is boring"
2. "We should use this because we understand the sharp edges"
I wouldn't care at all about (1) and I'd have a real conversation based on (2).
Any productive conversation that starts with (1) immediately has to follow "can you clarify what that means", so the term is useless at best and thought terminating at worst.