alt Hacker NewsAll technology is just a tool, unfortunately it turns into religion like behaviours, because it defines with whom we work, what projects we can work on, what CVs get through HR and which ones don't,....
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ozim • yesterday at 7:58 AM
The horror of picking tech working in it 10 or 15 years and then it suddenly becoming obsolete or irrelevant. Is something a lot of people can relate to.
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k33n • yesterday at 8:02 AM
It’s useful to align groups on underlying philosophies about problem solving and what tooling we will use.
The alternative is way slower and less effective. “Just use whatever language and frameworks you want and solve the problem in a vacuum” would be a nightmare for any team trying to ship.
> religion like behaviours
That phrasing makes me imagine a cultural anthropologist studying the behavior of programmers in the wild, their tool use, rituals, magical worldviews like object-orientation. There's that classic paper about how a language is a "tool for thinking", that it both expands and limits how and what a person can think. It makes sense that it shares characteristics with religion, a conceptual system of interfacing with the world.