Su-Sheethere's this article about knuth and literate programming and word count with early unix shell tools which is echoing very much my sentiment or the article about "hello here's my awk script and it's 135 times faster than your hadoop cluster" and instead of really taking a deep look "what do you REALLY need" people are always "that never works in a PROFESSIONAL environment" and then you look at established companies and it's all dusty perl (or equivalent) in a dark corner running the business
fuzzyfuzzyfungus@sushee I'm curious if this trend is related to the idea (seemingly popular in VC circles) that basically the worst possible outcome is becoming a small, profitable, company rather than either hypergrowthing enough for everyone who matters to cash out or shuttering decisively enough for everyone who matters to put their money on a different number and give the wheel another spin.