croissantswan

Re:Apple Should Buy a Search Engine, Analyst Says on Monday June 08, 2020 @07:01PM (#23461727)

I don't know how Apple can think they will remain competitive with Siri without building a search engine.

However, Apple are really bad at executing on cloud services of any kind. With any amount of resources there are certain things that company just cannot get right, and search is definitely one of them. I would love to know what it is organizationally that makes them so terrible at web apps and cloud services.

Ask HN: How do you deal with abandoning a project?

Posted by croissantswan on Monday June 08, 2020 @06:55PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm sure every developer has many side-projects and work projects they have spend huge amounts of time on, only to abandon for a variety of reasons. Maybe a competing project was better resourced, or the community shifted to the latest shiny thing, or maybe a decision to kill a project came down from higher ups.When I think about the time I have poured into such projects it makes me feel like I...

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Re:Avoiding the Global Lobotomy on Saturday June 06, 2020 @03:58PM (#23441828)

Better approach is to educate people. You're never going to stop the momentum of the free market.