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Bullshit Has Dominated the Tech Industry

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Re: Bullshit Has Dominated the Tech Industry

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Post by hinkley »

effingwewt wrote: post #51
maerF0x0 wrote: post #39

The only sentence I disagree is this one > We are allowing too much power to be concentrated in the hands of a few people, whose ultimate goal is this relentless pursuit of money, not a human project for society. Swap "power" and "money" and I agree. > We are allowing too much MONEY to be concentrated in the hands of a few people, whose ultimate goal is this relentless pursuit of POWER First step, stop giving them yo…

money is power. they are interchangable. money==power.

power is money. Old money is power. New money is only influence.

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Post by hinkley »

gaucheries wrote: post #35

> Apple, known for supposedly delivering sleek products, launched in 2010 the iPhone 4, still under the tutelage of Steve Jobs. Within hours of release, users flooded the internet to complain about dropped connections and abrupt reductions in internet speed. The problem, according to Jobs, was with users holding the iPhone 4 with their left hand [8]. As this was a hardware issue, it was never really solved. They did…

I still peer pressure friends into putting cases on their phones. If you were using an iPhone 4 without a case you're just a madlad.

It was never a question if you needed a case, but if you could find one that wasn't ridiculous. For any phone there were maybe 3 manufacturers I liked, and they kept changing every few years.

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Post by darthrupert »

Of all the things we are bringing back from the past, why does communist propaganda have to be one of them? Why do people, smart people! keep making almost the exactly same mistakes?

Modern socialists have clearly studied history, but how are they able to interpret it like this?

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Post by tasuki »

corbulo wrote: post #59
effingwewt wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

money is power. they are interchangable. money==power.

If this were true then why are there countless examples of rich people losing power throughout history?

Do you have many examples of people who have lost significant power and stayed as rich as before? I'm sure there are some, but think it rather rare: usually, loss of power is accompanied by loss of money.

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Post by corbulo »

tasuki wrote: post #75
corbulo wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If this were true then why are there countless examples of rich people losing power throughout history?

Do you have many examples of people who have lost significant power and stayed as rich as before? I'm sure there are some, but think it rather rare: usually, loss of power is accompanied by loss of money.

But if they have the money, how could they lose the power in the first place? If money=power it should be impossible.

I would say it is the majority of cases that people who lose power retain their wealth. Violent ends to power is exceedingly rare comparatively.

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Post by ameyv »

Agree with Article to some extent.

To mention what good software without bloatware looks like, go checkout https://nirsoft.net website. Small size and absolutely wonderfully working tools made by single dev. Its epitome of craftmanship.

PS: Also System internals tool made by Mark Russinovich

Re: Bullshit Has Dominated the Tech Industry

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Post by jiggawatts »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #29

"In 2019, the company released an entirely new version of its terminal for Windows 10, promising a better performance. However, user Casey Muratori was not convinced, claiming that the performance was still far from what could have been done without much effort. To prove his point, Casey developed in just a few days an open source prototype that performed 200 times better than Microsoft's new terminal [32]." "In the…

What blew my mind is not that incident, or that Microsoft devs refused[1] to fix it, but that about a year later they updated Notepad the same way and it visibly lags and stutters on a suuuuper high end gaming machine. Like. What. The. Fuck!?

They literally never tested Notepad with large text files! It can take a minute to open a file that every other text editor on Windows opens instantly. It misaligns tabs and four spaces by one or two pixels, which means they utterly failed to render using a fixed width font in a way I have never seen before.

This minimalist text editor takes over a second to launch from an SSD that can read a 4K movie end-to-end in the same time.

It’s just a staggering level of incompetence.

[1] Their excuses were mostly that they couldn’t even look at his code, lest their minds be infected somehow and be in violation of copyright. Meanwhile Casey uploaded it as open source and they could have at least listened to his videos with their eyes closed. Instead they elected to stick their fingers in their ears and yell “La-la-la can’t hear you!”. Clearly I’m exaggerating for effect, but not much.

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Post by duncanc4 »

darth_avocado wrote: post #36

I find that I generally agree with the sentiment but putting Apple in this list is a little preposterous. Yes Apple Maps was terrible, but with continuous improvements, at the moment it is a good if not the best product. Outside of that, they have had very few bad products that they released (yes including the $1000 stand) in the last decade.

The butterfly keyboard was pretty terrible. They continued selling the model for years before finally removing it. Customers didn’t get any recourse until the recent lawsuit, but that only applies to certain US states. Apple still denies any wrong doing.

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Post by mmcnl »

JohnFen wrote: post #19
thatfrenchguy wrote: post #17

I feel like the person writing this article has never worked in a professional environment: getting it right is hard, you always have pressure to meet a deadline (for obvious reasons), but if you don't have a deadline, you can also end up in analysis/development paralysis where you don't spend your time on important stuff. A lot of the projects that person is talking about ended up being pretty good a year after thei…

> A lot of the projects that person is talking about ended up being pretty good a year after their launch Right. His point was that these things are being released before they're fully baked. That's a problem, and one that is much more common now.

Isn't that a classic case of survivorship bias? Maybe their early release allowed these products to become fully baked much quicker due to shorter feedback cycles?
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