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The older I get the more I feel like we're an accelerate version of the fashion industry.

At least in fashion you can make an excuse that the design is thirty years old and most people don't remember the last time we did this.

With software it's every six or seven. It's hard not to judge my peers for having such short memories.

We were in the midst of one of these upheavals when I first started, and so I learned programming in that environment. It also means I have one more cycle than most people near my age. Now it all looks the same to me, and I understand those people who wanted to be more conservative. In fact I probably owe some people an apology.




"High fashion" as as much an art installation as it is clothing.

Thus what i see with a lot of IT these days, is an invasion of "artists".

Personally i blame it on the web being co-opted by print media. This in turn brought in "media studies", that in turn brought in the "artists".

Notice how again and again there is an attempt at turning the web into a printed booklet.

Early on it was done using flash. These days its JS and mangling the behavior of scrolling.




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