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There's a difference between bold technology and new technology.

A lot of new tech is shiny and provides legitimately useful benefits. Think the new wave of frameworks that started with Rails and Django.

There's a lot of shiny tech that has been a gigantic waste of everyone's time, like MongoDB and people trying to shoehorn MapReduce into every possible computation.




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