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Re:Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble? by kerng on Monday January 21, 2019 @07:37PM (#18964990)
I agree, back then there was not a mindset of move fast and break things. It was foundational research, a lot results and learnings from then are still applicable today.
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Re:Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble? by sedachv on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @01:17PM (#18970680)
> It was foundational research

In the 1980s there was a lot of "foundational research" (poorly re-inventing the wheel) for microcomputer people who did not know about the work done on large computers in the 1960s. Move fast and break things was also very much a thing for microcomputer manufacturers and most microcomputer software vendors. Look at how many releases software packages went through, and at what rate.

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Re:Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble? by oblio on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @04:05AM (#18967027)
I think you're agreeing to disagree. His viewpoint, to me at least, is opposite to yours. Or at least parallel. He never said that today there's no foundational research.
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