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Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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sevensor wrote: post #171
mananaysiempre wrote: post #108

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Thus far I’ve found Jira’s AI features to be basically nonsensical (and they’re constantly annoying me with downright childish amounts of bling, like if you asked a five-year-old to design a product box). So that seems perfectly in character. All right, there’s a related-tickets feature that could have been great (witness the related-questions feature on Stack Overflow’s ask page, widely acknowledged to search better…

> Jira’s AI features to be basically nonsensical Unlike its other features?

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Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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nickelcitymario wrote: post #318
ruszki wrote: post #301

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Luck. It’s always just luck. Of course, you need to have other ingredients too, but hundreds of millions, if not even billions of people have those skills too. Who win more among them is pure luck. And in that, of course a ton of predetermined parameters, like where you born, who your parents are, what your skin color is, etc. I have a friend who is worse in almost every skills which matter in our work. Not much wors…

Luck was a necessary ingredient, 100%. But how many other people had similar luck and did nothing with it? Luck is another word for opportunity. Some people are really good at leveraging opportunity for all it's worth. Most of us (myself very much included) are not. Case in point: I'm the same age as Mark Zuckerberg. Many people say his age is why he was able to be at the right place at the right time to create Faceb…

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Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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MarcelOlsz wrote: post #308
colelyman wrote: post #223

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Agreed, to make it even more interesting Browser Company discontinued Arc earlier this year. So not only did they do all of the things OP listed, but also didn't have a current product when acquired.

My experience with Arc was installing it, asking myself "I have to pay to change the app icon? wtf" and uninstalling it. Horrendous UI as well.

Personally I liked the UI (and now use Zen browser, the UI is very much a matter of taste though), but left as the browser itself kept getting worse

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by odo1242 »

mikodin wrote: post #348
colelyman wrote: post #223

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Agreed, to make it even more interesting Browser Company discontinued Arc earlier this year. So not only did they do all of the things OP listed, but also didn't have a current product when acquired.

My hunch is a loyal user base. Anecdotally, everyone I put onto Arc and the person who put me on still uses it. I’ve been using Arc for the last two years and was genuinely sad on its discontinuation. I now don’t really know what I’ll do when it goes away.

Zen browser now has all the features of Arc (including folders, which they just added) if you’re willing to use a Firefox fork

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Nextgrid wrote: post #342
naravara wrote: post #320

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I know distilleries will often contract with one or more other distilleries to create a custom blended whisky to sell under their label to get some revenue while they wait for their first batches to mature. There are distilleries that basically specialize in doing this. I assume the wine market probably has similar strategies. I know 3 buck chuck basically started like this, buying overstock from other vineyards and…

Out of curiosity, why would a company help out their future competitor?

My impression is that a large portion of the industry is already structured as distilleries that actually make the liquor, like MGP, and a bunch of labels that put their names on it (each different). Like how many name-brand items across grocery stores are all actually made by the same company.

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It's sad the tech industry is in such a state that a team can build a really great, innovative product, and then have to abandon it to create a little bit of AI slop so they can sell that to a company that is completely unrelated to that products market.

You have a great product, passionate users, and you have to throw it all away (because you've accepted too much money from investors who don't care about anything other than quick returns).

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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taminka wrote: post #264
Pfhortune wrote: post #236

It has been so tragic to see the unforced downfall of this company. Arc is such an amazing browser that really did some new and interesting things. They clearly have some phenomenal talent on the team, having managed to get their swift-centric development working on _Windows_. That's a huge and difficult undertaking! And they threw it away to work on (probably) the CEO's new fixation and threw Arc away like an old to…

> having managed to get their swift-centric development working on _Windows_. That's a huge and difficult undertaking! im not a swift expert, but building your project for one of the officially supported targets shouldn't be considered a "phenomenal" achievent? lol

The achievement wasn't building Swift code on Windows, it was using Swift to build a native Windows application utilising Windows API's.

https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-everywhere-windows-interop/

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by basisword »

Pfhortune wrote: post #273
taminka wrote: post #264

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> having managed to get their swift-centric development working on _Windows_. That's a huge and difficult undertaking! im not a swift expert, but building your project for one of the officially supported targets shouldn't be considered a "phenomenal" achievent? lol

Ah, fair enough. Showing my ignorance on that one. I know little about their tech stack and was under the impression they had some secret sauce.

You're not ignorant, the other person was.

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Post by mattlutze »

crowcroft wrote: post #259
bhouston wrote: post #253

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> The strategic insight behind Arc was perfect – your browser IS the Operating System, and so we should build a browser that can function as that platform. Marc Andreessen said famously (or at least is paragraphed as saying) in 1994 that the "Browser is the Operating System" and people have been doing riffs on that since then. https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/04/22/always... https://www.theguardian.com…

Which is why tactics are so important. I would say no one has actually got the experience right yet, 'browser is the OS' has been true for a long time, and no one has delivered it yet. Similar to ambient computing and augmented reality.

One might suggest Cromebooks have done so well because Google got it more or less right.

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

mattlutze wrote: post #359
crowcroft wrote: post #259

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Which is why tactics are so important. I would say no one has actually got the experience right yet, 'browser is the OS' has been true for a long time, and no one has delivered it yet. Similar to ambient computing and augmented reality.

One might suggest Cromebooks have done so well because Google got it more or less right.

I think that they had the fact that in chromebook, they could run whole linux containers in the browser , right?
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