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Re:Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help by eeZah7Ux on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @07:05AM (#23078675)
> However, the CSS was generated. From YAML. The YAML was generated from JSON. the JSON was pulled from mongo. The Mongo was updated through a strictly validated XSLT that had an enumeration of colors.

I thought you were exaggerating to make a joke. Sigh.

> I left. Company is worth over $100 million today, looks like I'm the loser I guess.

Somebody played the lottery and won. 99.9999% played and lost.

You are not a "loser" for not playing the lottery.

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Re:Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help by kristopolous on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @08:02AM (#23079077)
The idea was that if they were going to port native than wow, we'd have this one amazing way to create all these interfaces on different systems!

As if we'd have 5 or so platforms and a single command to go "presto!" and build on a bunch of devices with a slight button offset change.

I always said "how about, if you want a linux version in qt, you fire up qt creator, drag your mouse around a bit, click a few times, take 20 minutes and that's it. You then literally just walk away because the work is done".

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