Re:Hype Driven Development
by coldtea on Saturday April 22, 2017 @10:35AM
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>Ok, if what the smartest and best people are doing isnt the right solution for my problem, what is?
Obviously only what "the smartest and best people are doing" to solve problems that are isomorphic to yours.
But first you also need to identify those people: who said those in the big companies (or smaller with better bloggers) are the "smartest and best people"? Just because they belong to a succesful company? And because they have degrees from some top-tier university?
The company could be succesful despite of its technology, on the business value alone (which usually is how it is), and the people with "good degrees" could just be architecture astronauts or fresh amateurs who re-invent long buried concepts because they don't know better.
There's a whole long distance between what the current industry champions as "best minds" (some 20 year old with 2 years of JS that created the framework du jour) and people like Knuth, Alan Kay, Kernighan, Richie, Bill Joy, and the like...
Obviously only what "the smartest and best people are doing" to solve problems that are isomorphic to yours.
But first you also need to identify those people: who said those in the big companies (or smaller with better bloggers) are the "smartest and best people"? Just because they belong to a succesful company? And because they have degrees from some top-tier university?
The company could be succesful despite of its technology, on the business value alone (which usually is how it is), and the people with "good degrees" could just be architecture astronauts or fresh amateurs who re-invent long buried concepts because they don't know better.
There's a whole long distance between what the current industry champions as "best minds" (some 20 year old with 2 years of JS that created the framework du jour) and people like Knuth, Alan Kay, Kernighan, Richie, Bill Joy, and the like...