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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"

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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.

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