Re: REST impact paper
Gregory Alan Bolcer <[email protected]>
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It's the scope of where it gets re-used. If you design software for X and people reuse it to do X+1 or X', then sure, but the quote is about taking things for X and applying them to Y. I'm going to repeat myself: I think you are confusing your timeline by conflating successful effects with design at the time. Greg On 9/9/2017 9:15 AM, Stephen D. Williams wrote: > Yes, it was unpredictable and many things weren't successful, whether > they deserved to be or not. But successfully predicting what would be > successful wasn't the issue. What turned out to have successful > impact? It would be interesting to consider why and whether there are > patterns that might be predictive. > > If someone builds something to solve a problem well and to be reused, > and it is reused for a long time with widespread impact, that's pretty > successful. I don't see why whether they foresaw the precise ways their > work would be used has much to do with it. It's great for people who's > work directly bloomed, but that's probably in the minority. > > Experienced people can probably give somewhat useful odds on the likely > success of things. I can tell you right now that you shouldn't invest > in Ruby/Rails development. It is hard to say which databases will stay > around, but there are several you really wouldn't want to use. > Everything has trajectory, momentum, and evidence both ways. > > sdw > > On 9/8/17 6:25 PM, Greg Bolcer wrote: >> Nobody can predict what will be successful. I thought we were talking >> about impact? Of course everyone thinks their contribution will >> change the world, but my point was those contributions get used in >> ways the authors hadn't anticipated. I didn't cite specific examples >> as in both academia and industry they are well known mythology. >> >> Sent from my iPhone9 early access prototype >> >>> On Sep 8, 2017, at 1:46 PM, Stephen D. Williams <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> assign > > _______________________________________________ > FoRK mailing list > http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork