There's a famous joke essay called Worse Is Better, which compares the New Jersey and the MIT ideologies. In this episode, Kris and Matt discuss these two different ideologies and how they show up in technology, from Go, to dependency management, to electric vehicles.
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Show Notes:
Table of Contents:
- Prologue (00:00:00)
- Chapter 1: Worse Is Better? (00:02:58)
- Chapter 2: Go Got Stranded In The Middle (00:10:39)
- Chapter 3: SemVer Is Fundamentally Broken (00:33:32)
- Chapter 4: We Don't Live In The Ideal World (00:47:19)
- Chapter 5: BEVs vs EREVs [Extended] (00:56:26)
- Chapter 6: Holistic vs Deep (00:56:58)
- Epilogue (01:01:39)
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- (00:00) - Prologue
- (02:58) - Chapter 1: Worse Is Better?
- (10:39) - Chapter 2: Go Got Stranded In The Middle
- (33:32) - Chapter 3: SemVer Is Fundamentally Broken
- (47:19) - Chapter 4: We Don't Live In The Ideal World
- (56:26) - Chapter 5: BEVs vs EREVs [Extended]
- (56:58) - Chapter 6: Holistic vs Deep
- (01:01:39) - Epilogue
