Open source is unsustainable if we act like this. A 100k grant costs a fraction of the latest leetcode wanker member of the blind church of tc. Add to it a couple of seniors to mentor the dude a couple afternoons a Week and you’re steering the project without too many problems at lower cost.
“Give back to the community” used to be something I admired in the American culture as an European, but I guess most exchanged it for a L6 promo
It’s not obvious to me. “Make a compelling product that speaks to an unfulfilled desire with pitch perfect marketing, relentless quality, and flawless execution” seems to be what differentiates who we acquired. There were a lot of startup brands and only a few were acquired in my time. Most just died.
I have zeiss lenses on my glasses, they’re terrible. Full of scratches in 1.5 years. Worst money I’ve ever spent, my last no name €80 lenses went for years without a single scratch! Anecdata obviously
What, do you think they scratched them on purpose? Avoiding scratching for thousands of hours isn't actually simple, and if some brand is less scratchable then that's a real benefit.
More like the tiranny of people whose job title matches .*[Pp]roduct.*
They are the real scourge of our industry; I never met one who wasnt hellbent on raising some kind of meaningless number that people who don’t talk to the customer decided was important for the next 90 days.
Get them out of the industry as fast as possible, keep only the good ones
The whole point is ignoring the dogmatism of our profession full of various shamans with magic formulas to solve everything from scrum to xp to tdd to rust to functional programming to ood etc.
Then it’s always the same shit, but it’s your fault because you didnt do this or that
> The design system, where once productive FE devs go to die thinking everyone should use it
Genuine questions: is it badly made to the point where it would slow people down, or do you have another reason for disliking it? What's wrong with the government thinking that many of their sites should look and behave in similarly predictable ways, in addition to tackling accessibility as well, at least to a certain degree?
In my eyes, that's not that different to people choosing to go with Bootstrap or PrimeFaces (which actually provides UI components that have versions tailored for Angular, React and Vue, in addition to Java; something that seems cool and that I haven't seen many others actually try to do) because they want something that works out of the box and lets them worry about the forms and page content, instead of as much about how it works.
In other words, do we really need so many bespoke design systems (and all of the work that goes into that), as opposed to fewer but more well made ones?
Your point makes a lot of sense, but then everyone wants that small bit of customization that substantially destroys the whole idea of a design system. Not to mention that while making sense for the government, which might have contractors without even knowing about them, it’s really stupid for small companies (why the hell i want to use randomCo design system?) and it’s just pure vanity.
Learn to manaweave, cheat, call “judge”, fix matches and artistically stack the deck when cracking fetches and you’ll be there in no time. Too much variance to go regularly 9-0 and stuff like that
Yeah a bit, been a victim of cheating and rule lawyering. My paper magic experience evolved to “pay attention to what the other guy is doing” rather than thinking about my game plan. As a draw go player, it becomes unsustainable for my mental energy.
How recent are these experiences? Sad to note that Sheldon Menery died recently, but he had as much influence as anybody on cracking down on cheating in organised play.
“Give back to the community” used to be something I admired in the American culture as an European, but I guess most exchanged it for a L6 promo