Re:Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?
by ericd on Sunday November 04, 2018 @11:26PM
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Thanks for contributing that to Snow Leopard. It is my all time favorite OS X release precisely because it felt solid and fast, and didn’t add a bunch of useless new cruft to the interface or mess up anything I relied on. I haven’t felt that with any release since. It’s a depressingly rare feeling with something as fundamental as an OS.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?
by shittyadmin on Sunday November 04, 2018 @11:08PM
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Maintenance is thankless work - it's that way in just about every industry around, short of total disaster no one is going to congratulate you for making something work the way it was supposed to work.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?
by therealdrag0 on Monday November 05, 2018 @05:35PM
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Personally I've had good reception of performance and security bug fixes at my current job. Even got a private bonus from CTO for one. (Small-Medium company)
But I can see how that'd be the exception.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?
by dvfjsdhgfv on Monday November 05, 2018 @04:07AM
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Your bosses may be clueless, but at least folks at HN - that is actual Apple customers - really appreciate your hard work. It is thanks to people like you many of us still use Apple hardware.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?
by Elidrake24 on Monday November 05, 2018 @04:24AM
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> Actual Apple customers
I mean, I get what you're attempting to say, but this is so delusional when looking at the most successful business in the world that it's almost farcical.
But years ago the same thing happened to me at Apple. I was fixing bugs in every part of a major framework to help SnowLeopard ship only to get passed over for a minor promotion because I wasn't "critical on any one project".
I thought it was especially ironic since SnowLeopard was supposed to be a stability/performance release only to get massively delayed by people "shipping" things like the Objective-C garbage collection that made XCode unusable for months. The same stability/performance release that had a day-1 point release.