One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
There are way too much hype driven development so I think that being skeptical of buzzwords is a helpful attitude in general.
now it's too easy to be picky on the name. we all know that naming is a hard problem of computer science.
Where is the substance? is a better question.
I would reframe it this way:
What are the use cases in the real world?
Which pain points is it solving for whom?
When is it a good trade-off?
And here I think that the JAM ecosystem has pretty good answers to this, no matter how you call it.
By contrast the Bitcoin/Blockchain people make extraordinary claims all the time, but the main non-fake use case they have today is still unregulated internet gambling on the price of the Bitcoin.
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There are way too much hype driven development so I think that being skeptical of buzzwords is a helpful attitude in general.
now it's too easy to be picky on the name. we all know that naming is a hard problem of computer science.
Where is the substance? is a better question.
I would reframe it this way:
What are the use cases in the real world?
Which pain points is it solving for whom?
When is it a good trade-off?
And here I think that the JAM ecosystem has pretty good answers to this, no matter how you call it.
By contrast the Bitcoin/Blockchain people make extraordinary claims all the time, but the main non-fake use case they have today is still unregulated internet gambling on the price of the Bitcoin.