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Re:Andrew Chen: Are you a product fanatic? by mmp on Monday January 14, 2008 @08:13PM (#98444)
On never using popular products:

If you refuse to use certain tools because of religious or ideological reasons then you're just narrow-minded.

If you're an start-up entrepreneur, you're in the situation of having to efficiently allocate scarce resources, ideally you should be using the best tools for the job without arbitrarily limiting yourself, no?

Luckily for them, the guys at Google decided to go ahead using boring uncool commodity hardware instead of the 'better' fancy machines.

Re:Andrew Chen: Are you a product fanatic? by Hexstream on Monday January 14, 2008 @09:30PM (#98470)
Popular but shitty products are rarely "the best tool for the job".

Unfortunately, there always seems to be a lot of them around...