Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil...
by Pica_soO on Friday May 04, 2018 @06:51PM
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Don't forget the incremental perfectionism, which wont allow for a product to ship, unless its polished to a mirror-shine, and at least a year behind any competitor.
And the constant skepticism to anything that is not a physical product. Writing Software in the eye of the layman is something between boring and con-artistry.
Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil...
by phatfish on Saturday May 05, 2018 @05:40AM
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To be fair the polished product for physical goods is the better choice. If you buy the rushed appliance with design flaws you will just have to spend money again to replace it, or time to get it returned and fixed.
Software is different in that problems can be fixed instantly (since online updates) and the first to build the user base is often the winner.
The real problems occur when the "software startup" model is applied to a product that it does not fit.
In the political sense, Germany is more liberal than the US (especially economically), but there's this sort personal conservatism that manifests in paranoia about data/privacy, aversion/skepticism around change and technology and risk, less acceptance of weirdness. German culture just feels...rigid. It's stable and very functional, but also inflexible.