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Re:A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012) by Confusion on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @08:06AM (#8814398)
That's missing the forest for the trees.

There is a difference between being able to choose between 15 tools and being able to choose between 15 hammers. The point of the article is that we just don't need 15 hammers -- especially as 10 of those are obviously inferior -- and the existence of 15 hammers is incredibly unhelpful.

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Re:A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012) by dllthomas on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @06:06PM (#8817259)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer#Hand-powered_hammers

You're not going to need 15 hammers on a specific job (... for one person), but there are a lot of kinds of jobs in the world with particular needs.

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Re:A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012) by rev_null on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @06:09PM (#8817274)
That's kind of a poor metaphor, as there are at least a dozen distinct and useful types of hammer.
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