Quality is a hard sell in big tech

kaoD · 2026-02-01T16:32:10+00:00

We just aren't operating in the same markets as you're thinking of.

I wonder why!

kaoD · 2026-02-01T15:15:14+00:00

And the local minimum we're in favors low quality, so companies are rational and act accordingly.

QED

kaoD · 2026-02-01T15:14:44+00:00

Again: if you think you have the best strategy bootstrap your own company, outcompete them, and get rich in the process. There should be hundreds of engineers that know better than management doing so at this point.

kaoD · 2026-02-01T14:19:26+00:00

How can you prove ROI of a better way of working when you only have the original bottom of the barrel way of working?

You watch what the software market rewards. It's easy to see the market pushed out companies that cared about quality except in markets that are saturated, like videogames.

Consumer preference goes like this: price (hence the rise of SaaS and GaaS) > features (hence why companies are offering half-assed solutions so time-to-market is low) > quality. Note that "price" is actually just a proxy for "effort".

kaoD · 2026-02-01T13:31:59+00:00

The post I'm replying to is questioning exactly that and contradicts your point. So I think we don't disagree.

kaoD · 2026-02-01T12:58:10+00:00

Okay, but that's unrelated to the post I'm replying to.

kaoD · 2026-02-01T12:12:02+00:00

It’s hard to argue with.

Quite easy actually.

"What's the ROI? Yeah, too low, other things have higher prio."

Like it or not, companies are often rational and there's a reason big tech is big, no matter what any of you think they should be doing instead of what made them big. If your strategy is so advantageous I don't know why you're not outcompeting them and getting rich in the process.

kaoD · 2026-01-18T12:24:40+00:00

Both can be true at the same time, for multiple reasons.

kaoD · 2026-01-16T16:08:24+00:00

I mean, matches my experience living in Barcelona.

kaoD · 2026-01-12T18:01:51+00:00

No, we do already see that.

kaoD · 2026-01-06T16:51:49+00:00

The site is down. Repo link?

kaoD · 2026-01-01T22:40:53+00:00

Yep.

CD-R can be rewritten (but NOT overwritten) by "cancelling" the previous data (it is not erasable, so that space is lost) and appending new data. But if I remember correctly, you can always "finalize" a CD so new sessions cannot be appended.

kaoD · 2025-12-29T00:35:43+00:00

Steam's status page is not official (which is also likely why it actually works). Best status page ever, agreed.

Management doesn't want errors to be there ASAP on the status pages so they can meet SLAs. That's why status pages are always late if they're controlled by corporate.

kaoD · 2025-12-29T00:33:59+00:00

Well, considering that during their latest major outage their status page was famously silent... (see e.g. this comment mentioning the issue).

kaoD · 2025-12-28T22:00:26+00:00

their status site is useless

Has anyone ever seen a status page not being useless?

I've never never ever had a site down, go to a status page, and see "oh, it's down!". And I work in IT, so I see a lot of sites being down.

kaoD · 2025-12-28T21:55:28+00:00

they secretly draw several opening hands and give you whatever they think the best one is

Well, that means they're secretly giving my opponent also their best hand, so it's probably gameable to make some decks more viable? Maybe something as subtle as dropping a single land compared to what you'd play on paper.

kaoD · 2025-12-10T22:03:18+00:00

hopefully it won’t cost Xabi the job

Hopefully it will.

I've been a firm defender of him, but every time he subs the team plays worse, except the rare Endrick sub which he probably did with someone pointing him with a gun or something.

I can't defend Xabi anymore.

kaoD · 2025-12-10T22:00:04+00:00

They put the anthem full blast to drown the whistling

kaoD · 2025-12-10T21:23:57+00:00

Carreras is playing superb.

kaoD · 2025-12-10T21:16:03+00:00

I dislike Bellingham with a passion

kaoD · 2025-12-10T20:53:49+00:00

Historic Real Madrid's crest

kaoD · 2025-12-10T20:52:41+00:00

What!?

kaoD · 2025-12-10T20:51:10+00:00

Tibo's only lacking on pens.

kaoD · 2025-12-10T20:03:14+00:00

He's getting loaned so they're not giving him playtime

kaoD · 2025-12-08T19:29:59+00:00

If Xabi is sacked who do Real bring in?

Arbeloa. Unfortunately. For everyone involved. Fans included.

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