lordbritishbusiness

MS usually does it before anyone else, releases a product, fails to market it, product dies to exec cutback, then three years later Apple does it and it’s amazing.

All the shortcut technical debt is coming due, especially now that there’s a tool able to undertake mass analysis with fairly general rules.

It’s getting bad out there, and it’s not visible on the surface but a tsunami of bug reports and patches has been sweeping the internet and drowning anything unable to swim.

For anything that sinks underwater, metaphorically, they’re getting grabbed by automated sharks that are now actively on the attack. If you’re not rapidly fixing everything and monitoring everything closely you’re probably being eaten alive without knowing.

I’ve been of the opinion that Silicon Valley and tech in the US has effectively drawn in the very best of several countries and collectively robbed so many industries of some of the smartest people around.

These people retraining or going back home and into other industries could be an economic boom in the making.

It’ll be the deeper corners with tech and product advice, Reddit still comes up often when searching for solutions and it’s because one of the communities had someone who knew the answer.

Where else could to ask others about some detailed F1 race question and have an actual track marshal who was at the race, or a pit member chime in?

Reddit the company are terrible, but the site can be gold. But they chased the best commenters away, and Google already got their training done and copied all the good stuff.