[kd1220]

My experience with gung-ho githubbers is the same. It's great to try out new technologies, but gitguys take it to an extreme. They'll shoehorn any new technology into their stack without a second thought about product stability.

Gitguy: "I used EC2, Blazboo and Chingbang to create an HA job queue that will never fail! It uses counting Bloom filters and I wrote it in Brainfuck."

Me: "What do you use it for?"

Gitguy: "Sending password reset emails."

These Rube Goldberg wannabes are generally more trouble than they're worth. You end up with a system that's a technological pastiche. The drawback is apparent when you try to hire new teammates. It turns out you can't find someone who knows the 12 esoteric packages your business is running on.

[latch]

The state of programming is so awful, that I'm literally just looking to know: do you write fat controller actions..or whatever equivalent exists for the specific technology you used.

That, to me, is 100x more important than "how many zeros are in 100 factorial"

[jacques_chester]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this. I really like the energetic fluorescence of some open source communities, but the punning names, over-extended metaphors and religious devotion to novelty uber alles are really starting to take their toll.