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by noir_lord 2927 days ago
Many might not be all, in many places this stuff wouldn’t move the needle but might be crucial somewhere else also the expertise to do these things doesn’t evaporate after they are done.

The bigger problem I have with a lot of the stuff the Facebooks of the world put out is that most of us simply don’t need it now and maybe never.

I hear too much “but big company Foo uses it!” well yeah but Foo can hire the creator and half a dozen engineers to maintain it, you have two developers.

Pick boring unless you can’t is my approach.

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> Pick boring unless you can’t is my approach.

But when you can't, being able to learn from the lessons of giant companies via their open source software sure is a blessing!