harrisonweber

Courter point: The team here developed some interesting new mobile microscopy techniques. It's possible, had the project completed development, that some other cool things could have come from a "useless" tech-art project.

The creators of this project told me they actually wondered if PETA would take offense. Ideally, though, the tardigrades would have had plenty of algae and room to swim around/reproduce.

One big thing here is that Ara was part of ATAP which was acquired from Motorola (back when Google owned Motorola). So the culture of this project is an unusual one, even for Google. The heavy dependence on outside contractors probably made for a complicated setup, but I don't think that was the problem. From the outside, it feels like ATAP/Project Ara just ran the clock out. If they'd have gotten the phone done and ready to ship faster, maybe things would be different today.

Ara's been gone since August. I sourced the story myself, not sure how it's click bait tbh! Did you read it?

Could have been more clear, but this is the reason in a nutshell "Since Chrome’s rise, Mozilla has hardly any weight to thrown around." Chrome is over 5 years old.

I've seen this idea work well in very young companies (2 to 10 employees). It can boost morale at that size, but it would likely feel forced beyond a handful of employees.

No, but a startup is a company designed to grow into something much larger very quickly — that (historically) requires a massive amount of work. Small businesses can require 80 hours a week too, but they traditionally serve a much smaller segment of the population.

I would. Again, small biz VS startup.

I think what you're highlighting is the difference between startups and small businesses.

No, I wasn't saying it would actually work ;)

I agree. I'm sure Dreamweaver has its set of dedicated, erm, beginner users, but the Edge family was essentially created to replace Dreamweaver.

So, who's going to start the petition to make this open source?

It is interesting, but certainly not finished software.

It's just a flag, should be SFW. Edit: Oh and a goofy poster. Nothing crazy.

Didn't mean that to be negative.