• BeBopALouie@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    I spent 40 years in the computer industry. I learned one thing very early on.

    The only standard in the computer industry is that there isn’t one.

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      3 days ago

      No way, it’s a MASSIVE pile of standards. The entire internet and networking in general only functions because of standards. HTML5’s main benefit was standardizing a ton of BS everyone was playing around with.

      What isn’t standard are the few higher level frameworks and BS people are playing around with, but saying that’s all of the computer industry is like that old meme of Homer getting pulled most of the way up the mountain by sherpas in a sleeping bag…

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          3 days ago

          Yes I know the joke. My point is that it is only true for the developing front of engineering. Everyone is still, in fact, standing on a mountain of well established and followed standards while debating the future.

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        3 days ago

        Umm, that is my point. Due to the massive pile of “standards” there really is not one standard in any part of the industry as it will change within months etc.

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          No, you misunderstand the scope of standards I’m referencing. Computer science goes back over a century, yet you’re attempting to tell me there are no established standards based on something that’s barely even a decade old as a consumer product standard.