Dart/Flutter was never a technical issue, but a political/monopolistic issue. The underlying monopoly has not changed, so I don't really see a path forward unless the chromium team magically changes leadership.
I guess my point is, if the big Chromium team couldn't pull something like this off, who else would? At this point major web updates tend to get born in one of the big tech companies funding web development, either directly or indirectly (Mozilla being funded by Google)
I personally don't think dart/flutter was good enough of a solution to be worth everyone's time. When this actually happens it will be more of a paradigm shift than that.
That's why (which I said in the other comment) what needs to happen is that innovating in this space needs to become a lot easier.
> We do not USE the thing we're building by and large.
Yes, thankyou, that's quite obvious judging by the quality of most software.
It really is amazing how bad most software made for non-developers is. Like, as software engineers, we understand how essential version control is. We made git and github for ourselves. But nobody has bothered building that functionality for people who edit word documents all day. Or people who edit video, or animators, or 3d modellers, or 100 different jobs. Word and google docs have track changes. But they don't let you bounce between branches or make pull requests. You usually can't time travel, or bisect, or git blame, or any of the other things we take for granted. My partner works in a CMS all day at work. Every change she makes is pushed directly to production. There's no review process. No staging. No testing. No change control or rollback. If anyone messes something up, they get blamed for "taking down the app". As a software engineer, I look on in horror.
I believe the more cognitive distance there is between 20-something silicon valley tech bros and your particular use case, the worse your software is going to be. If you're a manchild living in san francisco who can't be bothered driving, doing your laundry or shopping for groceries, you're in good hands. There is a startup that will solve your problem! But the further from that "ideal" you get, the worse. Here in Melbourne, I can't use my iphone to pay for public transit. Google maps couldn't really handle roundabouts (traffic circles) for a decade and change. (I guess they don't have those in California). Unicode support was only added recently because of Emoji. Until then, a huge amount of software butchered non-english text. I shudder to think how badly most software probably handles right to left languages. And the list goes on and on.
> My partner works in a CMS all day at work. Every change she makes is pushed directly to production. There's no review process. No staging. No testing. No change control or rollback. If anyone messes something up, they get blamed for "taking down the app". As a software engineer, I look on in horror.
Fwiw that just sounds like an immature CMS - I've seen review/approval workflows, branches, preview environments etc in more than one CMS. I take your overall point but maybe your partner doesn't have to live this way.
> I take your overall point but maybe your partner doesn't have to live this way.
I agree - but if a review system exists in the product, she's never seen it. They don't even have a staging system for testing changes. Its wild.
And for context, she works at a large organisation that's a household name here in Australia. This is a large organisation thats been around for well over 50 years. They have an engineering team and thousands of employees.
I don't know if the software is bad or if its misconfigured. But the status quo outside of our industry is jaw-droppingly terrible.
Yeah absolutely. I worked at a startup awhile ago with a really incredible designer. She insisted that everyone in the company sit in on one or two user interview sessions she had organised with our potential users. It was an incredibly eye-opening experience, and I can't recommend it highly enough.
I highly recommended doing the same if you can swing it. Its equal parts insightful and motivating. And the clients generally love it - since it shows your team really cares about their problems and use case.
Well my comment wasn’t really on usability or UX per se, just noting that the narrative of needing race car drivers is inaccurate. You don’t need to reverse B-trees to program normal software.
Also usability concerns have nothing to do with reversing B-trees.
Very true. My dad (late 60s) has written a DNS server, but still nearly fell for an email scam when he was sleep deprived and at the airport believing his flight was overbooked and he was going to be kicked.
Like seriously, I'm being glib, but also, what fucking achievements? He considers PayPal a failure because it never matured into his everything app. Tesla? The Tesla model S, X, and 3 were all blueprinted by Tesla before he bought it from it's actual founders and ratfucked them out of the company. The only vehicle that's seriously got his influence in it's design is the Cybertruck, and it's a complete shitpile. The Tesla semi has been a complete nothingburger since it's announcement, and he paid a TikTok performer to be his robot on stage because their robots suck ass too. Space X does alright, but they also are using tons of upcycled NASA patents and designs, and while their contributions certainly are far from nothing, that's not Musk. That's the engineers Musk hired. The Boring company is a complete fucking con job, end to end. It's only actual product has been a tunnel full of cars from his other stupid company, and flamethrowers. And again, as with Space X, as with Tesla: he didn't do shit. His engineers did. His marketers did. In fact two of these organizations are rumored to have dedicated teams of people who manage Elon's stupid tendencies so they don't sink the company.
And Twitter! Holy fuck where do you START. I fully grant the above are only rumors, but it's rather borne out by the fact that Twitter definitely didn't have an Elon wrangling team, and it shows. He's cratered it to be worth less than 10% of what it was when he bought it. It's gone from being the "worlds front page" stuffed to the gills with ads from prominent brands offering real products to just a higher budget, better engineered Info Wars, complete with the Nazis and the ads for dick supplements every 3 posts as they try desperately to break even in the budget. Meanwhile, "free speech absolutist" Musk bans people for being mean to him and invites folks openly exposed as Russian disinformation discriminators back to what's left of Twitter. And, at a time when the company was already struggling, he got into a pointless fucking pissing match with the city of San Francisco putting up an enormous stupid X on the building which he was eventually made to take down anyway.
So like, you challenge me to say a nice thing about Elon's achievements? Okay, but I need your help, because I don't know about any. Let me know of one, and I'll say something nice about it.
I don't know if you'd call this an achievement, but I will say he has offered everyone watching for it a first-class lesson in how being a billionare makes you medically incapable of relating to anyone and anything who isn't bending over backwards to tell you how amazing you are. He literally cannot handle any criticism, which is a problem because everything he touches turns to shit in one way or another. And the worst part is our system, as setup, is incapable of holding him to account for any of it. If everything he has goes down in flames, Tesla, X, Space X, Boring, the LOT, he will STILL be worth more than me and my friends will earn in our entire lifetimes. And for DOING WHAT? Making WHAT? Achieving WHAT?
If he wasn't the son of an Aparthied emerald mine owner, and didn't have daddy's money to get him started in investing, nobody would know who this fucking weirdo is, and nobody would care. He would be exactly like his fans: socially maladjusted weirdos screaming about white replacement theory on web forums.
So many things wrong here. Musk is a founder and there was no car, not even the roadster that was blueprinted before he was at the company. There was no more than a battery.
It's also very clear he didn't buy the company. Given he still doesn't own it. Stock award or not.
We know where the money is from. There's no billion dollar inheritance or payout being invested. This isn't Thiel or PG we're talking about.
SpaceX is very much ahead of other companies that have access to NASA. A clear sign you're wrong.
He's not the son of an apartheid mine owner and that's not hard to find out.
You need an adjustment of yourself. Stop spreading easily verifiable disinformation. Like the starlink stealing elections and NASA being replaced with SpaceX nonsense I've been hearing recently.
Nothing good or bad, success or failure is the work of any one person there alone. The fact you don't know who the designer of the CyberTruck is is telling.
You can't leave money for your kids in the USA unless you have several million dollars lying around, because health care will eat up all of your savings in old age.
There are gaps in Medicare coverage. There's long term care that isn't covered by Medicare; people can self insure, or purchase separate coverage, or many rely on Medicaid which requires exhausting assets first.
I've watched both my parents go through this, with significant chronic health issues. They had good private insurance on top of Medicare, they routinely had $10-30K annual itemized deductions for health related expenses that were not covered by their insurance. And that was with a daughter who is an MD who invested a massive amount of time and effort to get insurance to cover as much as possible.
Quite the opposite! Since people can have faith that they are protected by GDPR, they can have machines that actually work to help them, instead of hobbling them out of fear of being exploited.
How so? A manufacturer who's found to use this information for any purpose other than calling emergency services when you crash will go bankrupt because of the GDPR. This is a strong incentive not to.
Information can be sold or leaked, abused by a single employee for personal reasons, or used en mass for surveillance, regardless of what's written in the paper. Faith is actually an accurate term for this level of trust in government. I for one reject the notion of being tacked at all times by law.
