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Software Fashion

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the disco-is-not-dead dept.

fedor writes "Software fashions come and go, but they always claim a few victims on the way. Where there's fashion, you'll find that rather weak willed person who is the Stupid Fashion Victim (or the SFV for short). This great article from Software Reality is all about fashion in software. Do you all remember WAP? In a couple of years some of the current 'technologies' will be gone too. The article mentions VB.NET, struts and XP as current fashion..."

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  1. I wonder... by inertia187 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, I always suspect an idea is bad when Sun Microsystems has an entire Java-One conference based on it.

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  2. UML by 3Suns · · Score: 4, Funny

    What? No mention of UML?? Together with Design Patterns, these two are making my fellow software engineers less intelligible by the minute!

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  3. Hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Technology X = Money/Success/Silver Bullet

    Illegal division by zero at line 1.

  4. Re:YIKES!!! by KillerHamster · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whats next? A front page story post with the goatse guy?

    I've been submitting those, but for some reason, they keep getting rejected.

  5. Re:In a few years... by kryonD · · Score: 4, Funny

    .NET is more like a cold than a fashion. After a while, it will just go away and everyone will feel better that it is gone.

    Makes you wonder if there is some hidden insight in calling the Linux version 'Mono'.

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    I've dirtied my hands writing poetry, for the sake of seduction; that is, for the sake of a useful cause. --Dostoevsky
  6. Relevance to, well, everything by ghostlibrary · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know, we just tiger teamed on this same paradigm at a standup meeting, and frankly most of their suggestions violate ISO 9000 and show no facility for CMI. Perhaps if they'd used a quality circle to better evaluate their stance, they'd actually have action items that would be meaningful.

    Fortunately, we here in the business world don't have the same 'fashion trends' problem you software blokes seem to suffer.

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  7. Re:Memes by Kris_J · · Score: 4, Funny

    I read that book a while back. Don't worry, you'll stop seeing memes everywhere soon. Or at least, you'll be able to fight the desire to post about them once your immune system kicks in.

  8. Re:YIKES!!! by schtum · · Score: 5, Funny

    She is more scary. I mean, she could EAT the goatse guy

    Or, she could climb in goatse guy.

    If she did both at the same time, you'd have a wicked MC Escher drawing.