[ownagefool]

The camps are wrong.

There's poles.

1. Is folks constantly adopting the new tech, whatever the motivation, and 2. I learned a thing and shall never learn anything else, ever.

Of course nobody exists actually on either pole, but the closer you are to either, the less pragmatic you are likely to be.

[wosined]

I am the third pole: 3. Everything we have currently sucks and what is new will suck for some hitherto unknown reason.

[ownagefool]

Heh, me too.

I think it's still just 2 poles. However, I probably shouldn't have prescribed motivation to latter pole, as I purposely did not with the former.

Pole 2 is simply never adopt anything new ever, for whatever the motivation.

[antonvs]

If you choose wisely, things should suck less overall as you move forward. That's kind of the overall goal, otherwise we'd all still be toggling raw machine code into machines using switches.

[wosined]

Computers got faster, software is not so straightforward. I don't even know why a text webpage needs 100mb of memory to render and display.

[binarymax]

This is it right here. My foil is the Elasticsearch replacement because PG has inverted indices. The ergonomics and tunability of these in PG are terrible compared to ES. Yes, it will search, but I wouldn’t want to be involved in constructing or maintaining that search.

[jppope]

So 1. RDD 2. Curmudgeon and 3. People who rationally look at the problem and try to solve it in the best way possible (omitted in the article)