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Poll: Do you actually use the product you are working on?

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Post by stansult »

andreastt wrote: post #186

At my previous employer, a small browser vendor that decided to abandon its own rendering engine and browser stack, I stopped using our product because Linux wasn't a priority. Numerous reasons were given, such as low market share, “only geeks use it”, all journalists use Macs, &c. This was to the point of ridiculing the platform and the people working on it, frequently citing “Linux jokes” such as “you'll probably h…

Just to make sure I understood right. I read some translation of your post, and I think translation was not 100% correct, so I wanted to ask you.

In your phrase “So the company began the process of forcefully moving developers who'd worked on Linux for over 15 years to platforms they felt uncomfortable and unproductive working on”, you meant that developers who wrote code for the product for Linux, were forced to start writing code for Mac/Windows? Not that they were forced to change their actual development environment OS from Linux to Windows or Mac?

Thanks in advance.

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Post by lurkinggrue »

lproven wrote: post #202
lurkinggrue wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, Sounds like you used to work at Opera.

Really? You think? Gosh. If only this were /. & I could award you +1 for being so insightful. @OP: sad story. I am a little surprised, a little disappointed, and sad that it's only a little.

I'm detecting a slight note of sarcasm there.

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Post by brongondwana »

andreastt wrote: post #186

At my previous employer, a small browser vendor that decided to abandon its own rendering engine and browser stack, I stopped using our product because Linux wasn't a priority. Numerous reasons were given, such as low market share, “only geeks use it”, all journalists use Macs, &c. This was to the point of ridiculing the platform and the people working on it, frequently citing “Linux jokes” such as “you'll probably h…

But, but... stock price. http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/OPERA:NO

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Post by kissakoira »

andreastt wrote: post #186

At my previous employer, a small browser vendor that decided to abandon its own rendering engine and browser stack, I stopped using our product because Linux wasn't a priority. Numerous reasons were given, such as low market share, “only geeks use it”, all journalists use Macs, &c. This was to the point of ridiculing the platform and the people working on it, frequently citing “Linux jokes” such as “you'll probably h…

what a waste. -_-

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Post by RikardStallmen »

andreastt wrote: post #186

At my previous employer, a small browser vendor that decided to abandon its own rendering engine and browser stack, I stopped using our product because Linux wasn't a priority. Numerous reasons were given, such as low market share, “only geeks use it”, all journalists use Macs, &c. This was to the point of ridiculing the platform and the people working on it, frequently citing “Linux jokes” such as “you'll probably h…

Opera is ded.

Better set sail for other browsers guys.

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Post by rand01 »

andreastt wrote: post #186

At my previous employer, a small browser vendor that decided to abandon its own rendering engine and browser stack, I stopped using our product because Linux wasn't a priority. Numerous reasons were given, such as low market share, “only geeks use it”, all journalists use Macs, &c. This was to the point of ridiculing the platform and the people working on it, frequently citing “Linux jokes” such as “you'll probably h…

When Web Kit Opera was announced, I thought only the rendering + js engines will be replaced by WebKit/Chrome stuff and the UI etc. will be left intact. Oh boy, how wrong I was. :/

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Post by 0p086 »

andreastt wrote: post #186

At my previous employer, a small browser vendor that decided to abandon its own rendering engine and browser stack, I stopped using our product because Linux wasn't a priority. Numerous reasons were given, such as low market share, “only geeks use it”, all journalists use Macs, &c. This was to the point of ridiculing the platform and the people working on it, frequently citing “Linux jokes” such as “you'll probably h…

Well done, indeed. :(

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Post by snoopybbt »

johmas wrote: post #78

We make mattresses. Every member on our team sleeps on them each night. It's absolutely critical for us to have this first hand experience, especially as our team becomes larger with varying body types and personal preferences. We iterate on our own internal feedback in addition to our customer's.

I want to work for you as a Senior mattress tester.

I've got no problem with sleeping most of the day.

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Post by olaolaola »

andreastt wrote: post #186

At my previous employer, a small browser vendor that decided to abandon its own rendering engine and browser stack, I stopped using our product because Linux wasn't a priority. Numerous reasons were given, such as low market share, “only geeks use it”, all journalists use Macs, &c. This was to the point of ridiculing the platform and the people working on it, frequently citing “Linux jokes” such as “you'll probably h…

I got here coming from http://linux.slashdot.org/story/14/01/31/1629253/former-dev-...

And in there, they speak about the Otter-browser (which I already knew about), an open-source project consisting in a web browser aiming to imitate the Old Opera interface. It is till in alpha state, but already usable.

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Post by int_19h »

lubujackson wrote: post #110

I know this is a somewhat tangential comment but... The "eat your own dogfood" approach has never sat well with me. I think of Microsoft forcing it's employees to use Bing and Windows - rather than improving the products it seemed to lower morale and ignored the reasons why people were choosing Google or Apple. If the idea is to improve the product by actually using it I think a better approach would be to "eat every…

What makes you believe that anyone at Microsoft is forced to use Bing?
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