Re:Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy
by lloeki on Monday November 06, 2017 @07:56AM
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It's not the buying hardware thing that's important:
> conceptually stuck in the pre-UNIX, lone desktop Windows/MS-DOS
It's about understanding that quality matters, that UX is a thing, that design is more than just a theme, that machines are networked to varying degrees and frequency, with varying performance profiles, form factors and interaction models, and that this field is different from fordist industrial endeavours and you'd better read the Mythical Man Month if you want to have any chance at a viable let alone competitive RTT instead of treating your coding engineers as crappy brick layers.
> conceptually stuck in the pre-UNIX, lone desktop Windows/MS-DOS
It's about understanding that quality matters, that UX is a thing, that design is more than just a theme, that machines are networked to varying degrees and frequency, with varying performance profiles, form factors and interaction models, and that this field is different from fordist industrial endeavours and you'd better read the Mythical Man Month if you want to have any chance at a viable let alone competitive RTT instead of treating your coding engineers as crappy brick layers.