My 20 Year Career Is Technical Debt or Deprecated

Re:My 20 Year Career Is Technical Debt or Deprecated by negamax on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @06:04AM (#35959689)

Saying that a software is god awful when it's commercially successful is not a good argument. Certainly tons of people and orgs out there are deriving value out of it. I still have to see anything that comes closer to Confluence for arranging organisational knowledge

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Re:My 20 Year Career Is Technical Debt or Deprecated by animuchan on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @06:17AM (#35959788)

Do you imply a positive correlation between quality and commercial success? I don't think I can name many instances of this, really.

E.g. by far the most commercially successful video games are the bottom-of-the-barrel casinos for kids.

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Re:My 20 Year Career Is Technical Debt or Deprecated by negamax on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @10:57AM (#35962752)

I am implying that there's evidence that more people like it and are willing to pay for it than people not finding it upto the mark. Yes, that's the definition of a successful software.

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Re:My 20 Year Career Is Technical Debt or Deprecated by jen20 on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @06:51AM (#35960005)

How would you explain SharePoint if this followed?

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Re:My 20 Year Career Is Technical Debt or Deprecated by watwut on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @07:25AM (#35960274)

Oh, how I hate our management for forcing SharePoint on us.

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Re:My 20 Year Career Is Technical Debt or Deprecated by Arch-TK on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @09:09AM (#35961367)

Software success seems to be 90% about advertising and finding innovative ways to destroy your competition. Microsoft are the masters of that approach.

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