[santacluster]

People who've made bad technological choices and then claiming "technology doesn't matter" just because they fucked up are about as annoying as people who always want to use the latest new shiny toys.

You just made the wrong choices at the wrong time for the wrong reasons. Period.

That doesn't say fuck all about the next guy who may have perfectly good reasons to either choose the next new bleeding edge shiny or go with tried and proven old tech.

The final sentence is the worst advice possible. Never, ever stop experimenting. Just properly separate experimenting from building.

And please stop lecturing other people because you can't keep that shit apart.

[collyw]

BY your logic I should be experimenting wit a load of NoSQL databases. Except I can see that in my situation they give me precisely zero benefit over a Postgres (except for some buzzwords on my CV). I can see that many of the NoSQL key value stores are not much different from a Perl hash tied to Berkley DB - I tried that 6 or 7 years ago - it can useful but fairly limited.

[caente]

No, that wasn't his logic. NoSQL data bases aren't the only tech that is worth experimenting with.