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   Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) (tokyo_0@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 12:11:33 JST Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)

   • Jason Lefkowitz

   @jalefkowit "Developers have poured out sweat over the last couple of decades to get you working in ways that make it hard to scale like crazy."

   What do you think has been the driver for that?

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     Cegorach (drazraeltod@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 18:26:39 JST Cegorach

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     @tokyo_0 we all tend to fall into the "yeah, but I can't use the old stuff, because MY PROBLEMS ARE COMPLICATED!" hole.

     so we reinvent the wheel and overcomplicate solutions

     sometimes we're somewhat correct in that, but most of the times it's just in error

     and then the solutions not only have to support YOUR complex stuff, but everone elses complex stuff too. The simple use-case tends to get ignored, because that's solved already.

     You don't become a hero by solving how to butter bread.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 10:52:47 JST Rich Felker

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     • Jason Lefkowitz

     @tokyo_0 @jalefkowit As I remember the driving force was a few particularly bad giant corporations not devs, and the motivations were to optimize for being able to hire low pay frontend devs without collective bargaining power for everything, and each building their own pet frameworks devs would get accustomed to, to reduce mobility between their big competitors.

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     lolcat (lolcat@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 10:53:32 JST lolcat

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     @dalias @tokyo_0 @jalefkowit
     In my experience, this gets closer to the truth. Same explanation for "Why cloud?" - namely, that the OPEX-aligned management won in their fight against the CAPEX peeps. Most big tech currents are really buisiness currents, when you peek under the hood.

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 10:55:20 JST feld

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     • lolcat
     @lolcat @dalias @tokyo_0 @jalefkowit taxes are taxes