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 (DIR) Post #AVuJwMuTYwO5V6TTyi by galdor@emacs.ch
       2023-05-22T08:25:08Z
       
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       Companies gravitate towards the same tech choices because there are no incentive to take risks. If you push for something else than AWS/GCP and anything goes wrong, you'll be blamed for not choosing one of them. Same things with languages, libraries, tools…If you want extraordinary results, you need to accept the risks that go with doing things differently and stop blaming people for it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVuoIAaL40jyGuMpiy by veer66@mstdn.io
       2023-05-22T14:05:09Z
       
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       @galdor I live where CodeIgniter is a bit progressive.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVv7Mrn8GPauYrIwVM by chris@s.the-brannons.com
       2023-05-22T17:36:28.317433Z
       
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       @galdor  The colloquial phrase is “no one ever got fired for choosing X”, where X is some terrible corporate behemoth.1980: Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM.2000: Nobody ever got fired for choosing Microsoft.2020: Nobody ever got fired for choosing AWS.And yeah, it applies equally well to tools and technologies in general. Nobody ever got fired for choosing Java. And so on.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVv7MsUjeITMk5hlT6 by galdor@emacs.ch
       2023-05-22T17:38:59Z
       
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       @chris Correct. I'd say it is depressing, but it also means you can get an edge by ignoring the mob.