Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue

with <slrnv1rafb.3l3.bencollver@svadhyaya.localdomain> Ben Collver wrote:

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by Uwe Friedrichsen October 2, 2020

Sure thing, topic should be discussed with whoever started it.  Not
going to happen, I guess.

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What happened? It kept me a while thinking. Eventually, I realized
that I had observed a disease of our whole industry in its purest
form: We continuously forget what we have learned. We always reinvent
everything from scratch. My personal observation is that discussions
in the IT community start over about every 5 years [1]. That is how
long we remember as a community. After that we need to rediscover your
insights from scratch.

One thing must be made prominent:  People who fancy cons are not
representative sample of The Cheap Laborforce of The Industry.  With
this notion I conclude that people who fall in this slot tend to burn
out in five years (for whatever reasons).  But that's OK, they are
promptly replaced with new ones.

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