Posted by
glen ropella on
Feb 17, 2014; 6:35pm
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On 02/17/2014 09:39 AM, Parks, Raymond wrote:
> In both of my examples, learning the more primitive methods means that one learns the foundational knowledge that makes using the modern methods easier and higher in quality.
Precisely.
An additional point, though, is that "survival" across infrastructure
changes is similar to proof through isomorphism. The objective is to
establish a kind of Platonic form (or "category") for any given set of
tools, then whatever tools you find lying about that are close enough to
that form will do just fine. (Seriously. E.g. how is bandcamp.com
different from amazon.com? Git vs. Mercurial? Pinterest vs. Instagram?
Boinc vs. Tidbit? Cloud Foundry vs. Heroku? Etc.) Of course, to think
this way is antithetic to what the hyperbole machines out there want you
to think. I attribute the hype mostly to the venture capitalists and
their desire for 10-fold RoI exits (or at least the consumerist product
differentiation that drives our economy). But it could easily be caused
by the same thing that causes our 2 party political system, something
like an addiction to convenient pigeon-holing.
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⇒⇐ glen
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