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Germans “sometimes” created holocaust. Dont they deserve criticism for that at that particular period?

For current left this period is now.

No. They don’t care about users. Only about stock holders.

No. America has major, yet temporary problems that follow global trends mostly (i.e. ~ same shit happens everywhere).

But Europe uniquely eradicates systemic innovation process regardless of current downturn. By completely ignoring its needs and diving deeper and deeper into their weird mix of socialism and government/old money controlled monopolism.

It was the case maybe 50 years ago, but there are no systemic factors that support strong building/innovation/ entrepreneurial processes anymore. Maybe with some occasional exceptions.

Have you seen what crap cars even german manufacturers produce lately?

exactly

They already do.

100s companies are already just a wrapper around their models.

They trade a little profit margin for avoidng a mountain of risks each of those companies bear.

Eventually they will buy/kill most profitable and less risky of them (cash cows). But now they have their own problems to solve.

Native Macos apps (mail, safari) are awesome… by the standards of 90s (when they were probably first designed).

I doubt people developing safari and mail app are actually using them outside of work.

Apple keeps holding a “hardware company” flag, despite some occasional wins.

> Why do so many people in this forum not understand the article

I understand it deeper than you think.even maybe deeper then author think he does.

The only singals that matter i already mentioned. Everything else must submit to this ultimate goal. If that’s the case there is no reason to invent anything even metaphorically speaking. And platform requirements arise naturally to exact extent the user problem justifies, not more not less etc.

This is probably a fundamental philosophical division between “engineers” who love to engineer for the sake of engineering, who are arrogant enough to treat their trade as an art form even.

And between mere mortals, regular engineers, who are hungry for solving real world problems as efficiently and quickly as possible.

Instead of figuring out the mess and navigating the peculiarities of another “platform team” in a big org.

This article is a good demonstration of what is deeply wrong with today’s corporate IT. And why any big enough company will sooner or later rotten. And why work at such a company these days feel so meaningless and mundane.

For example

> Thankfully, the signals that help us to invent work are already out there, and they arrive from four directions - from the systems, from the users, from your organization, and from the industry. What follows is a guide to reading each of them.

In a good “ideal” org the only source of requirements should be users, aka customers, aka real people, user facing products, teams etc.

There must be no room for speculations and “engineering” (aka over engineering), nor performance review driven development.

I would personally fire anyone “inventing” work. Even if it’s myself.

Can you use yubikey as a primary login mechanism? How?

Otherwise having same password on every service doesn’t look secure, and what would you need to do if it’s compromised.

That really is a bummer, especially on basic older models where 8-20Gb of space wasted on this gimmick even if turned off is not nothing.

Modern big tech software engineering is 98% supporting and maintaining.

What difference does it make? They stopped being funny and original 10+ years ago

Every serious religion worth considering is different and distinct in its fundamental core claims, even if there is a significant influence and overlap on other levels.

No amount of pseudo-philocophical and quasi-historical research can change this basic fact.

Naive attempt of some buddhists to reduce (in their eyes of course its the highest compliment) other religion figures to mere "buddha" label is nothing but silly, laymen kitchen theology. It is disrespectful to both buddhism and other religion.