There's a recurring theme in technology that the creators of something popular don't understand why it is popular.
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There's a recurring theme in technology that the creators of something popular don't understand why it is popular. Often it's in spite of the thing that they think is important and often because of some completely unrelated ecosystem effects. Then they build a second thing that does whatever they thought was important in the first one, only more so. And they're confused about why it's not popular.
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There's a recurring theme in technology that the creators of something popular don't understand why it is popular. Often it's in spite of the thing that they think is important and often because of some completely unrelated ecosystem effects. Then they build a second thing that does whatever they thought was important in the first one, only more so. And they're confused about why it's not popular.
@david_chisnall *chuckles in IPv6*
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@david_chisnall *chuckles in IPv6*
@DJGummikuh @david_chisnall go on
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There's a recurring theme in technology that the creators of something popular don't understand why it is popular. Often it's in spite of the thing that they think is important and often because of some completely unrelated ecosystem effects. Then they build a second thing that does whatever they thought was important in the first one, only more so. And they're confused about why it's not popular.
@david_chisnall @pluralistic oh no. I'm currently rebuilding my most popular project from scratch.
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There's a recurring theme in technology that the creators of something popular don't understand why it is popular. Often it's in spite of the thing that they think is important and often because of some completely unrelated ecosystem effects. Then they build a second thing that does whatever they thought was important in the first one, only more so. And they're confused about why it's not popular.
Also in art and music and many other fields. They'll often prefer their later stuff even though it is nowhere near as popular.
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There's a recurring theme in technology that the creators of something popular don't understand why it is popular. Often it's in spite of the thing that they think is important and often because of some completely unrelated ecosystem effects. Then they build a second thing that does whatever they thought was important in the first one, only more so. And they're confused about why it's not popular.
@david_chisnall Happens every time creators of popular programming languages get asked about their language design ideas.
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There's a recurring theme in technology that the creators of something popular don't understand why it is popular. Often it's in spite of the thing that they think is important and often because of some completely unrelated ecosystem effects. Then they build a second thing that does whatever they thought was important in the first one, only more so. And they're confused about why it's not popular.
@david_chisnall companies often think they are great and never consider that they were just lucky.
When the market changes they suddenly evaporate without trace and are all sulky about it... E.g. Nokia.
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There's a recurring theme in technology that the creators of something popular don't understand why it is popular. Often it's in spite of the thing that they think is important and often because of some completely unrelated ecosystem effects. Then they build a second thing that does whatever they thought was important in the first one, only more so. And they're confused about why it's not popular.
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