Comment by ay

tptacek’s original comment was amounting to “finger protocol is strictly worse than http” - which reads quite as an absolute judgement.

Yeah, reusability and layering of engineering knowledge is useful - it makes dealing with complexity easier.

But it also makes it easier to build complexity without spending thinking of a simpler solutions. Because time to market.

And thus we have exhibits at https://mobile.twitter.com/internetofshit