Clickbait use of "Fired" - It's a pet peeve of mine when headlines used the term to create more drama. The correct term for terminating an employee due to business reasons as opposed to "cause" is laid-off.
Famo.us pivots, fires 20 employees
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#82Like Gumroad, a company like this should not be staffing up to 20+ before finding some traction or at least some product/market fit.
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#84Famo.us’ 15 minutes of open source fame have come to an end. JavaScript rendering engine Famo.us has pivoted away from its hardcore open sourced engineering platform which had raised over $31 million. It’s now refocused on commercializing the idea of powerful mobile web apps with a content management system for branded marketing apps. Yikes. If ever I wanted a paragraph printed on a poster to scare me into working ha…
"It’s now refocused on commercializing the idea of powerful mobile web apps with a content management system for branded marketing apps."
[buzzword translator activated]
"It's now building another Squarespace."
Re: Famo.us pivots, fires 20 employees
#85Famo.us business should be selling books and webinars on how to raise crazy money. They are definitely awesome at that.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
The fact that flutter exists doesn't really change my view that I don't believe that Google is pushing it. Flutter to me seems much more of a "Hey, let's get some brilliant people at Google on a fun, hard project" than something Google sees as the future. I agree, though, that Google has somewhat more of an incentive to build stuff cross platform than Apple does. Google wants you to access their services from any dev…
Flutter is in line with Google's business objectives. The more people transition to mobile apps, the more mobile searches people will make (as opposed to in-app searches.) They don't care if you are on Android or on mobile web, so cannibalization here isn't an issue; both lead to Google searches.
I think you misunderstand how Google operates. Google is a huge company that, even though less bureaucratic than companies of the same size, has many layers of management. I'd be surprised if any top executives even know that Flutter exists. My point is, adevine is right, Flutter is probably a small internal project that a bunch of devs got behind and got approval from a middle manager to release. It indicates very little about what's on the mind of the real decision makers at Google (e.g. the VPs in charge of Android or mobile or search).
Now, it might get momentum and eventually get more attention and more resources from Google leadership; but it also might not.
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#88I will never understand how startups like this get money with such incompetent leadership. Look at how this Famo.us office tour showcases the waste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imc1p_laIt4
Once you sell a search technology company for $100M (good luck with that), you too will be able raise ridiculous amounts of money for your next technology venture.
It totally makes sense.
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#89I will never understand how startups like this get money with such incompetent leadership. Look at how this Famo.us office tour showcases the waste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imc1p_laIt4
One of the most cringeworthy videos I watched this year...
Woh, they play with nerf guns at the office! How kewl!
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#90I never understood how they could claim "this is not html5" and "we have a direct conversation with the GPU", when it appears to be just a bunch of s with style="transform:matrix3d(0,1,2...)"?
Yea, the founder even says 'no it's not webgl' and then you see that te website clearly says its an abstraction of html5 and webgl >.> it's too markety speak for me- akin to the ridiculousness of salesforce's 'no software' motto.