Necessity of the latest and best tools

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Published on 2010-05-24T19:52:06Z Indexed on 2010/06/01 1:53 UTC
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Why would developers need the latest or best in software and hardware?

When this came up in discussion in my team, I thought we need things more stable than "the latest" can provide, even if that means sacrificing some measure of "best".

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