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A comment on Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize. Parent comment

Re:Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology P... by mosjeff on Thursday April 19, 2012 @10:48AM (#3863243)
I couldn't help think: "New? It's over 20 years old...". By this logic, we should still be giving Nirvana awards for "Nevermind".
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Re:Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology P... by gbog on Thursday April 19, 2012 @09:01PM (#3866015)
That is exactly what I found interesting. Reading hn one might be tempted to think that only three latest new thing matters. Think Trello : they use only post 2012 technologies and everyone says wow.

But in reality it takes 20 years our more for a "real" technology to mature and get serious recognition. The OP should remind us about this fact when we get too hot about something too new.

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