Re:Microbrowsers Are Everywhere
by thrower123 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @09:19AM
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I think there is a lot of both, but there's also so much churn and so little historical knowledge propagated through the profession that people just keep reinventing wheels because they don't know they've already been invented. Every revolution of the hamster wheel does seem to get us a few inches ahead, but refighting the same battles and redoing the same work gets very wearisome. And I'm not even that old; I don't know how the people twice my age that are still in this business can avoid being hopelessly jaded.
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I keep thinking that we might see a second "information age" the day we can reliably find something in the large ammount of data we have been piling up recently (is there such a thing as the "data age"?). Neural networks might be the beginning, but if we stop reinventing wheels, we could become a whole lot more productive.
Are there good documents regarding "capitalism" (I guess; constantly reinventing better wheels) vs other systems (reusing already designed wheels, however square), in domains other than financial: what the tradeofs are, how much worse your existing wheel can be before you start to feel it, potential for innovation, etc. Free software might side with the later, but I'd like an analytical exploration.
My favorite is how Node.Js now finally has implemented most wheels. It was a rough ride for a while. Seems every language is a very effective silo, or every runtime, rather. The .NET languages stand out.