Re:The Great Software Stagnation
by chrisseaton on Friday January 01, 2021 @09:50PM
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I don’t know what to tell you apart from
> Since 1996 almost everything has been cleverly repackaging and re-engineering prior inventions
seems like an ignorant attack on thousands of people’s professional competence and a veiled insinuation of deceit (the ‘clever repackaging and re-engineering’) and
> Suddenly, for the first time ever, programmers could get rich quick
sounds like a moral attack. All in all it’s a shitty thing to say to people. And there’s more and more grumpy people trying to tell young computer science researchers today that they’re useless and have no new ideas like this.
Have you been to a CS conference recently? You may be missing the context that these people are everywhere criticising everyone for not being as innovative as they remember they were.
> Since 1996 almost everything has been cleverly repackaging and re-engineering prior inventions
seems like an ignorant attack on thousands of people’s professional competence and a veiled insinuation of deceit (the ‘clever repackaging and re-engineering’) and
> Suddenly, for the first time ever, programmers could get rich quick
sounds like a moral attack. All in all it’s a shitty thing to say to people. And there’s more and more grumpy people trying to tell young computer science researchers today that they’re useless and have no new ideas like this.
Have you been to a CS conference recently? You may be missing the context that these people are everywhere criticising everyone for not being as innovative as they remember they were.
It’s damaging and not true either. No thanks!