Paul McCartney & Wings, “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five”, Band on the Run, 1973.
The Raw and the Cooked
You can do actresses. You can do models. But in the end you come back to waitresses, because they smell like food.
Jim Harrison, as told by Alton Brown
Universal
In their infinite wisdom, engineers replaced a large number of incompatible, different looking cables (HDMI, USB, power, etc) with a ton of incompatible, identical looking cables.
Conceivable Future
There is no conceivable future in which Internet-enabled firms are less numerous… where it becomes harder to make products people are willing to pay for… it gets harder to charge people money… the number of people connected to the Internet shrinks… the percentage of transactions consummated online decreases
These fundamental economic forces will continue bringing down the cost of starting new businesses and increasing the potential impact they have, even at very low levels of capitalization.
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"Learn by taking apart"
I have seen over my many decades of programming that no one should invent a framework until they have completed three concrete examples from scratch.
Once you have three, you can start to see (a) what you need every time, (b) what things are optional, but most important (c) which things are correlated with other things and should be controlled from some common settings or code.
Randal Schwartz (gitter)
Pedagogy
That seems to be a common story though. Man tries Haskell, realizes he’s not smart enough and gives up to pursue simple things like distributed systems