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nikanj on July 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10

Rewriting in hip-tech-du-jour is for startups with lots of funding and little of traction.

Why would a massively successful company toss a stick in their own spokes by tearing the product to ground?

nobleach on July 6, 2023 [–]

But it's actually a _really bad_ strategy for a startup! It'll be realized the moment you try to hire for hip-tech-du-jour. Most likely, you don't even have the problem that hip-tech-du-jour claims to solve.

jarjoura on July 8, 2023 | [–]

TIL what hip-tech-du-jour is lol

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