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another parlor question
What's a recent trend in your field (or topic of study, or art form, or whatever) that you think is nonsense?
I was thinking about this while reminiscing over an old job I had—I worked closely with a dude who'd been a DC-area public school teacher for several years before becoming a programmer, and he was comparing the latest nonsense javascript framework to the weird, cyclical trendiness of various trends in education. (i.e., there was a trend in the 1970s where people tried to do classes with no rooms, with the idea kiddos could freely drift to whatever teacher was teaching stuff most relevant to their skill level, instead of having to stick with just their age-grade. This led to building a lot of schools with very open rooms, and those rooms were partitioned via awkward cardboard-ish barricades shortly after everyone realized this is total chaos and not helpful to anyone. Apparently that trend made a brief comeback in the 2000's!)
I asked a literature PhD student this, and he pointed to thing theory. Medical resident friend said medical science probably suppresses more avenues than it should, leading to a bit less of such trendiness, which is an interesting alternative spectrum.
I could... write a book about everything I think is a dumb trend in software, of course :P
I was thinking about this while reminiscing over an old job I had—I worked closely with a dude who'd been a DC-area public school teacher for several years before becoming a programmer, and he was comparing the latest nonsense javascript framework to the weird, cyclical trendiness of various trends in education. (i.e., there was a trend in the 1970s where people tried to do classes with no rooms, with the idea kiddos could freely drift to whatever teacher was teaching stuff most relevant to their skill level, instead of having to stick with just their age-grade. This led to building a lot of schools with very open rooms, and those rooms were partitioned via awkward cardboard-ish barricades shortly after everyone realized this is total chaos and not helpful to anyone. Apparently that trend made a brief comeback in the 2000's!)
I asked a literature PhD student this, and he pointed to thing theory. Medical resident friend said medical science probably suppresses more avenues than it should, leading to a bit less of such trendiness, which is an interesting alternative spectrum.
I could... write a book about everything I think is a dumb trend in software, of course :P