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I agree. As with Bootstrap, it was fine in the beginning but at some point turned sour - strictly speaking about Look & Feel.
Because the taste is not good for European palates.
The key is to abandon social media and shame those who keep using it.
So if I create a free Twitter client that has 10000 users, I will have to pay Elon 80000 Dollars every month? Seems a worthwhile effort ;-)
I've witnessed some hard negotiating in the car industry about the price of a cable lug for a 6-figure luxury car. The car maker wanted to bring down the price for one lug from 0.05 Euro to 0.03 Euro at a order volume of about 100.000 pieces.
This kept about 50 people (on both sides of the deal) busy for 3 months: Engineers, CAD-Ops, Buyers, Sales, Project Managers...
It was obvious that the amount of extra-work to see if the price could be lowered was a multiple of the savings of the car maker. Yet nobody complained.
Apple Weather's forecast is unusable in the whole of Europe because of the data providers they use.
Pretty disappointing to have such a US-centric view on an app that's so integral to a smartphone.
They either should work with European data providers or make the app unavailable outside of those markets similar to how they do it with the "news" app.
Isn't it the most rational thing to assume that a company that is extremely experienced and successful at analyzing business processes and digitalising them will know better than any newcomer with less resources and less experience who operates mainly on "we're disrupting for the sake of it" swagger?
Telling SAP that you want them to change their ways to accommodate your brilliant idea is akin to a layman telling a brain surgeon how he wants his surgery done.
A very good explanation. Yet what I think is confusing a lot of (very?) good programmers (not me) is that they already do that intuitively by not letting methods become longer than 3 or 4 lines, and whenever implementing a new method, by writing the return statement first (i.e. returning a mock object or similar) and working backwards, i.e. only writing enough code to be able to return the desired value.
If one then goes and tries to write tests for these kind of methods, it feels like superfluous busywork.
A disappointing aspect of being a Programmer at 40, 50, or even 60, is that you’ll meet a lot of people, often your managers, who will think of you as an non ambitious loser.
“I used to be a coder but now I’m 32 and the ‘Director of User Experience’ - did you never feel the need to do a little more than coding?”
The difference is that no "developers are just tools that should be outsourced whenever cheaper" company has a chance against a true software company (which I count Apple towards even though they're more known for the hardware) deciding to enter the competition.
Nokia was not a software company at all. They treated their OS and UX as an afterthought and put hardware features first.
The same is currently happening in the automotive world with their in-car software. Auto makers aren't thinking of their OSs and UX and the people who develop them as the absolute center point of their industry, when they are.
> I worry that this would essentially make it easier for airlines to drop passengers in the long run.
That should be easy to prevent. It has to be designed so the airline (i.e. the party that holds all the power in this contractual agreement) cannot cancel the contract, but the customer's money can only be collected the moment the flight touches ground on the destination. Like a reserved amount on a credit card that car rentals use.
Flights are already "connected", it should be easy to auto-bill once the destination has been successfully reached.
Doesn’t it come down to „be a critical thinker instead of a mindless consumer“? From that follows that you don’t just scroll through the homepage but should use the search function, in an informed way.
Which in turn already fails at the majority of people being too lazy to type, and not knowing how to search for things they want. They quickly give up, and just take the easy route of consuming what’s served to them.
It’s the modern equivalent of falling on the sofa, switching on the TV, and just watching whatever’s on until they fall asleep.
Getting a majority of people to care about their media consumption is probably a hopeless cause.
They are the only ones trying to make hydrogen a thing, not „all others than Tesla“.
And Toyota has lost the plot a long time ago like all other Japanese makers. The Koreans are eating their lunch.
But Toyota recently put an EV to market, it’s called BZ4X or something like that. It’s not good.
Tesla quality is still lightyears behind old premium brands. Panel gaps so wide you could use them as kiddie pools.
Their scrap rates are testament of how crappy their production process is.
Hydrogen was mainly Toyota, no German maker for instance made any serious commitments into that technology.
I suppose you mean that Tesla was the dragging force in the EV sector and all others were reluctant until they saw Tesla become successful?
If you look at the timeline of global auto makers putting EVs on the market, that claim is unsubstantiated, they would have been years later if that was true.
I get it though, Tesla is the first product of the American auto sector that is somewhat innovative, after decades of being behind all others. So it’s natural that many Americans are proud of Tesla’s success and will basically defend that pride with their lives. It’s a cult because they and facts the contrary will be seen as an attack.
pinboard.in is a good alternative
To be fair, the original comment read like an Infowars headline.
This question makes me wonder...what are some examples of "first class citizens in browsers" to you?
They'll never accept your Japanese though unless you get the Keigo perfect. You might not notice it but foreigners who speak Japanese too well are thought of as losers by most Japanese ("why does he have to work in another country?"), and people who aren't perfect but pretty good will still be seen as lesser, and treated like children.
Of course your mileage might differ if you're in a pure tech environment full of younger freak types, but Japanese at any level in any other industry (like trade) is a boon more than anything. It's actually a better life in Japan to pretend you're a bumbling gaijin than an expert in all things Japanese. The women interested in real foreigners are also way more fun than those who want a weeaboo foreigner.
So it's not real. Got it.
I agree with you, if a company has a big enough name and user base, social-network-like features can add to the UX.
What our managers were seriously pondering was to create an actual competitor to Facebook that would draw their user base to our website, a company with around 10.000 b2b customers (if even) which had nothing to sell in the b2c channel.
From my limited experience, I think in bigger European companies (not 10-20 people tech startups) you will have people with little to no technical background doing the domain research and the managing of engineers.
I've worked in a French company which calls itself a "tech" company, but upper and middle management was purely people with a controlling, legal, or MBA background.
The engineers working there were great, but criminally underused, because you had only MBAs in product owner roles who spent their time dreaming up products or features with absolutely no idea of feasibility. Like the time one of them presented their idea that the company should "create something like Facebook" to make customers stay on the company website longer. Or the constant requests why the engineers wouldn't consider using "AI" in the company's React Native reporting app.
They were probably trying their best, but the problem was the company's culture of engineers being merely tools to execute the ideas of non-tech people. When we asked for POs or managers with an engineering background, the reply was always along the lines of "they don't know the business, so they don't understand our customer's needs".
Accordingly, it always took months even for very small features or changes to make it past the "agreeing on the requirements" phase, because there was no tech person high up enough in the hierarchy to tell the dreamers straight away that they're living in a phantasy world.
I wonder if car makers have similar problems, i.e. old school car industry guys trying to manage software engineers.
What kind of flat is that? Size, building age, amenities, etc.?
Honest question: What would be a good reason to learn Japanese nowadays, with all economical factors having run dry, over languages like Chinese or Korean?
The only reason I can think of is to read Manga / watch Anime in the original language and get the subtleties lost in translation, but that hardly is a good motivator compared to the other two I mentioned in terms of business use.
I get what you mean. Maybe this is the best we could ever hope for? Because one thing is clear to me: If Hollywood and the VFX artists working for it had been Republican-leaning over the decades, we'd still be at the "Steam train moving towards the camera" stage.
Coulda woulda shoulda Gouda