Re:Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again
by fuzztester on Saturday July 13, 2024 @10:56PM
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also, see this cperciva comment, and Google who he is before replying:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40957064
somewhat corroborates what I said above.
Re:Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again
by fuzztester on Sunday July 14, 2024 @06:02AM
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just had a small insight and did some quick mental arithmetic. hold on to your seat:
i counted, it's about 20 hype trends that i listed above (and don't forget that I may have missed some).
it is roughly 6 decades since the computer industry started, taking a start year of 1960.
so, 20 / 6 gives us an average rate of over 3 hype trends per decade !!!
about one every 3.3 years.
I myself would have thought it would be less often.
even if you make it 7 decades, 20 / 7 is nearly 3, so is still in the same ball park.
phew.
Re:Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again
by defrost on Sunday July 14, 2024 @06:14AM
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Way more if you go full international ...
Remember Fifth Generation Computer Systems ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Generation_Computer_Syst...
Re:Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again
by fuzztester on Sunday July 14, 2024 @09:52AM
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oh yeah, the big Japanese attempt with prolog. I read about it at the time.
until the next one, of course. ;)
for example, in rough order, some past hype trends: 3GLs, structured programming, initial AI (then AI winter), expert systems, CASE tools, 4GLs, OOP/OOAD, UML and round trip engineering, design patterns, dot com boom (and bust), agile, functional programming, Web 2.0, SaaS, crypto, Web 3.0, big data, data science, ML/AI.
most of them had or have some actual benefits, but nothing like the hype parrotted, by those with and without vested interests.
been there, seen them, from the third or fourth one onwards.