I don't think you can claim that the team behind concord is incompetent. I think they delivered something that nobody wanted but they delivered that competently.
I agree that incompetence generally doesn't end up with a good product but sometimes even good competence all around doesn't win. Sometimes it really is luck and timing.
Corporate meddling gets blamed for ruining things all the time but the truth few want to admit is that some amount of meddling is necessary.
Look at all the big flops Xbox has released over the last year - Redfall being a prime example. We kept hearing how Microsoft was happy to leave those studios to it, to give them the time and resources they needed and they still released dog shit.
When it comes to AAA, it's so expensive you need some amount of corporate input to make sure people will actually buy the damn game.
Of course there's extremes to both sides - pretty much anything Activision ever touched was ground to a lifeless micro transaction shell.
But everything we know about concord is trekking6 us that the team itself, including the big bosses, were overly positive internally. Nobody had the balls to interfere.
If they had just one exec who was willing to piss the entire team off, maybe the result would be different.
.. Am I the only one who doesn't have a problem calling it "peasant class"? It's the kind of slang I'd use and I always fly economy.
I also had a colleague in the UK casually talking in the break room if she should buy a house or a horse because they were comparatively expensive.
This rhetoric that Mozilla is entirely dependent on Google to survive needs to die because it's completely misleading.
Google is not the only company that will pay for that default search spot, they're just the highest bidder and in the past, other companies have paid the fee (such as yahoo).
Google paid Apple literal billions for the same thing on iOS and nobody is claiming Apple is dependent on Google: both Mozilla and Apple are just happy to take Google's money.
You don't need some big conspiracy to explain what's going on here when the real answer is surprisingly simple: Mozilla is poorly run and it's leaders have repeatedly dropped the ball over and over.
I agree this is probably overall a good thing, but I worry if this bacteria thrives due to the amount of plastic around what that would mean for the amount of CO2 produced.
I fucking love wasting their time, I'll keep them on the phone for hours and hours talking absolute nonsense.
For that chrome book like experience, the genuinely think Chrome OS flex is probably a better option for most people (privacy concerns not withstanding).
It's not a joke.
Genuinely forgot Obama was in his 60's, fuck I'd be glad to be that fit in my 40's.
There was a competition for UK superfans last month. They said they'd let entrants know by June 29th so I just assumed I hadn't won anything. I'm so excited!
They don't give you the answer, they give you a rough idea of where to look for the answer.
I've used them to generate chunks of boilerplate code that was 80% of what I needed, because I knew what I needed and wanted to save time.