On Wednesday, 23 September 2015 at 15:09:53 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
This is engineering, not fucking fashion. Popularity has no
place in decision making here. From everything I've seen, 90%
of the problems that exist in computing technology today can be
traced back directly to some jackass(es) weighing popularity
higher than actual technical merit.
Companies use whatever the money-making competition use, and
often bias their evaluations to favor doing things in the same
way.
Look at all these stories about Twitter/Facebook/WebStartup
technology stack. They wouldn't be anything interesting if they
weren't famous.
But they are visible and make money, so what they use must be the
right thing.
