[bawolff]

> focus on the fundamentals rather than the particular brand of tools. HTTP, tcp, HTML, OS, CPU, filesystem, etc will almost certainly out last a language, framework and SaaS

Umm, you are just picking survivorship bias tech things.

Focusing on html was a good choice. Focusing on xhtml2 or vrml would be a bad choice.

HTTP will serve you well. FTP or Gopher not so much.

TCP is a better choice than IPX or SCTP, etc.

Ultimately though, i think the point is to focus on the underlying ideas. You should understand transport protocols not tcp specificly, then you can easily apply that knowledge to QUIC or whatever.

[Robotbeat]

Lindy Principle

[leetrout]

For those curious

> The Lindy effect (also known as Lindy's Law) is a theorized phenomenon by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to their current age. Thus, the Lindy effect proposes the longer a period something has survived to exist or be used in the present, the longer its remaining life expectancy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect