Comment by prymitive
10 hours ago
> You want to see what we’re doing, understand our decisions, and see progress through shipping. Second, a shared sense of pride.
So basically: - recent changes are all crap - so why did you make them?
10 hours ago
> You want to see what we’re doing, understand our decisions, and see progress through shipping. Second, a shared sense of pride.
So basically: - recent changes are all crap - so why did you make them?
Microslop: In service revenue and shareholder dividends we trust.
Shareholder value had to be increased, don't you understand?!
More likely: "People needed to get promotion packages, don't you understand?!"
I would guess many of the bad changes are caused by perverse incentives which do not even help shareholder value.
My mental model remains that the Windows team is mostly governed by designers on Macs who want to see a user-visible change to get their promo and never use Windows.
Because mortages need paid, and when you’re working as a programmer, you deliver what the top brass wants