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> > Old thing was hard, too hard for this generation

> You're vastly underestimating how hard the old thing was

Sounds like you're agreeing with him, if anything. Where is gerbilly's 'underestimation'?

It took me a moment to get it too. I think they’re saying that the internet wasn’t a waterfall-style design. It wasn’t a one-off big thing, it was a huge collection of small projects where most of them have since died because the trade-offs didn’t work. Agile is way more work than waterfall.

Surely it takes quite a bit of perseverance to try all the things that don't work until you find the things that do work. The false starts and dead ends all count towards the process.

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