Pamar
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Comment · 18 days ago
My point is: "maybe it was better when internet access was essentially opt-in, because you had to be very motivated to get there - at the same time, deciding not to get there was not something that would make your life almost impossible".
Which (IMHO) is a bit more on topic than being able to fly in a Concorde.
Comment · 19 days ago
peak western society ended back then maybe around the time the first Concorde airplane flew for the first time.
This seems a bit arbitrary to me. Why 1969, exactly? Personally I'd go for the "democratization of Internet" as the start of the slope. So perhaps 1989 ("1989: Quantum Computer Services and Apple end their partnership. Quantum Computer Services renames itself America Online. Two years later, America Online for DOS is released, and a year after that, America Online for Windows.")? Or arguably even a bit later...
Comment · 3 months ago
Can you name a few?
Not doubting your claim, just curious because I am maybe not following the same niches you do.
Comment · 3 months ago
Half-dozens of them, apparently.
Comment · 5 months ago
90% of my my experience has always been dealing with large-ish corporate systems.
I am in Europe, so YMMV even when talking about corporate instead of smaller scale projects.
In my experience stuff like RAILS had negligible impact in my field because companies would always require solid backup from some big name vendor (MS, Oracle, IBM, Sun - back in the day, or even SAP).
So most if not all the smaller silver bullets did not even make a blimp on the radar... and stuff like Java or .NET, while definitely better than C or COBOL... did not really deliver in terms of productivity boost (in part because, as noted in the message I am answering to, expectations kept growing at the same pace)
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