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Sigh, it looks like the title got a bit mangled…oh well. As most of the commenters have gathered, this was mostly tongue-in-cheek; I kept a window with a few of these kinds of posts open as I wrote so I could refer back to them so if you might be able to make out some familiar companies or technologies in there. That being said, I love hearing about your employer's technical decision making process, so I don't want to discourage anyone from writing blog posts like these. Just try to keep in mind that your decisions not be the right ones for everyone else. On the flip side, if you're looking to make technical decisions yourself, sometimes what $FAMOUS_COMPANY did is not the right choice for you :)

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Nice one. I'll cast my vote for $AN_ENGINEER_TOOK_A_MYTHOLOGY_CLASS as "funniest bit."

Obviously at some point you're gonna have to do the companion/followup piece, "Why $FAMOUS_COMPANY Ditched $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY for $BORING_DEPENDABLE_TECHNOLOGY and What We Learned"

A fellow individual of taste, I see.

But honestly, I would really enjoy seeing more of the latter type of think-piece in all seriousness. I genuinely do believe that the field as a whole would benefit from a bias towards $BORING_DEPENDABLE_TECHNOLOGY and customer centricity.

Yeah I like those. Obviously it would be great if there were more of them during the early part of the hype cycle, when contrary viewpoints are hard to come by!

> Obviously at some point you're gonna have to do the companion/followup piece, "Why $FAMOUS_COMPANY Ditched $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY for $BORING_DEPENDABLE_TECHNOLOGY and What We Learned"

The posts I see tend to have $MORE_RECENTLY_HYPED_TECHNOLOGY in place of $BORING_DEPENDABLE_TECHNOLOGY.

Saagar - I haven't laughed this hard in months. Thank you for writing this - the bit about "Medium article we found that had something to do with multi-armed bandits" got me on the floor. Laughing during this time feels so so good, and I didn't realize how much I needed that!

Stay safe!

You too! And wrt to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY - we at $GIANT_CO originally created it to solve some challenges, as one of the primary authors I'm starting $PERCY_JACKSON_CHARACTER_CO that provides commercial support and some extra features (honestly - just RBAC with LDAP and some light UI).

We added SSO, please pay us $30k extra. Also, pay us another $30k to be hosted on our Enterprise SLA guarantees, which actually just runs on the same hardware as the rest of our customers, but hey, whatever, you've got money.

now do one for covid

Lost it at $AN_ENGINEER_TOOK_A_MYTHOLOGY_CLASS. I guess it's not as bad as $A_FOUNDER_WHO_TOOK_AYAHUASCA or $THE_VC_WHO_SPEAKS_ONLY_IN_RAP_QUOTES_AND_METAPHORS.

This is genius-level satire. So much of it rings so true, from $FAMOUS_COMPANY to $NOT_SO_FAMOUS_COMPANY.

Some great writing here. Thank you so much.

beautifully written. and your first illustration sets a new high standard in visual design, i absolutely loved it.

> first illustration

This seems to be the original (or as close to it as I could find with a really quick search): https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/92er50/next_g...

I thought this was the original, but I can't find a real reference. https://i.imgur.com/HvPGd

Yeah the TF2 hats one feels like the original to me, I can't remember an older occurrence of this meme than this

Yes! That's definitely older. Thanks for finding it :)

It was surprisingly difficult! I thought for sure knowyourmeme would have a page on it, but if they do I sure couldn't find it.

Yeah, it's that one except with "MAKE MORE CORES", probably back from when Intel was doing better.

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