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Re:Show HN: Wall of Text by bollix on Thursday November 06, 2014 @06:38AM (#8566591)
hardly anything on the internet is "new". We're all just rehashing things that existed on the net in the 90s, doing them slightly better.
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Re:Show HN: Wall of Text by laumars on Thursday November 06, 2014 @06:46AM (#8566610)
s/better/differently/

I wouldn't say all of the re-invention has been for the better.

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Re:Show HN: Wall of Text by bollix on Thursday November 06, 2014 @08:12AM (#8566823)
Yeah agreed. Once a new fashion comes out, people feel the need to rewrite everything in that language/framework etc.

Imagine how much more productive we could be if we stopped reimplementing the wheel every time a new fashion comes around...

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