Apple software used to exhibit reasonable UX for “edge cases” just like the one you described. This was one of my main reasons for going Mac — they cared about the details. Sad to see that seems to be going away.
Yes — the Wikipedia article that I linked says so as well. But Polestar is headquartered in Sweden, and the cars are designed by Swedes in Sweden. It’s a Swedish brand.
It’s not just you — something happened with me where I mentally checked out from the MacOS train after Lion. The versions from Mavericks and up are “those newfangled versions with their silly names”. And Mavericks is 10 years old! Maybe it was the RDF wearing off.
Something that coroutines made a big impact on for us was testing. Multi-step integration tests became a breeze. With state machines, each test would need its own FSM, and callbacks would make the flow hard to read.
Great teams self-manage. Managers and management generally exist to ensure a baseline, but they can’t really do much more. In a strong team, everyone displays leadership properties, and they typically don’t listen to non-technical management.
Great teams manage their productiviry themselves, but don't work in a vacuum. Whether their output is properly evaluated and rewarded entirely depends on their manager.
If they increased their product KPI by 150% but their manager had the goal at 200%, your team's suddenly underperforming. If they need 2 more engineers to fill specific spots, the manager will be the one pitching it to HR and convincing upper management to green light the expense. Same for the team budget in general, same for company-wise deadlines, resource allocations, what growth opportunity the memebers get. And so on, and so on.
There's a myriad of super critical things that members take for granted but go through their mamager and get screwed when the manager is bad at its job.
Those teams seem pretty rare though. It also requires an org that lets the team not listen. Also what exactly is non-technical management? In most tech companies most managers are with a technical background. The problem is that they naturally drift further away from technology when not practicing it.
You don’t have to, most people buy their apartment. If you don’t have the money when you’re young, parents tend to help out with the down payment. The more you get from your parents, the closer to the city center you can live.
I can see why this doesn’t work for everyone, and I wonder what kind of social effects it will have.
>parents tend to help out with the down payment. The more you get from your parents, the closer to the city center you can live.
Oh, so the "secret" to Swedish housing affordability is 'have rich parents'. Silly me, why didn't I know that sooner, I would have shopped around for richer parents. /s
>I wonder what kind of social effects it will have
The short term effect will be a much bigger class divide between those with rich parents and those without, basically a ghettoization of cities (which is already a thing in most EU cities), while long term maybe more social unrest, crime, political extremism, etc.
Sweden, Switzerland, and the US are obvious outliers. Their economies have been abnormally stable, because they have not faced revolutions, civil wars, foreign occupations, and other forms of widespread destruction in a long time.
I’m not sure that’s it. Sure, Norway was invaded but it was a pretty “benign” invasion in comparison to what happened to others. Same with Denmark. Would be interesting to see their stock market returns.
