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No One Cares About Software Quality
- And worst of all, we’ve lost sight of the most salient part about computers: their malleability. We’ve acquiesced the creation of our virtual worlds, where we now spend most of our time, to the select few who can spend the millions to hire enough software engineers. So many of the photons that hit our eyes come from purely fungible pixels, yet for ... See more
from The "Next Big Thing" is a Room | Phenomenal World by Steve Krouse
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- Anyone who’s spent a few months at a sizable tech company can tell you that a lot of software seems to exist primarily because companies have hired people to write and maintain them. In some ways, the software serves not the business, but the people who have written it, and then those who need to maintain it. This is stupid, but also very, very tru... See more
from Software will eat software in a remote-first world by Can Duruk
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- To be fair, computers — both the desktop kind and various mobile kinds — enable seemingly-impossible things. But it feels frustrating to see the pioneering spirit that originally led to the development of modern computers giving way to uninspired flat interfaces and CRUD SaaS apps. The things you can do are limited to bespokely-implemented features... See more
from Page not found • The Blog of Feifan Zhou by Feifan Zhou
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- As software has taken over the world, we have fallen out of love with innovation in the material world (when was the last time we got excited over something the way previous generations got excited over plastic?) as well as the processes and systems engineering that go with it.
from Whimsical ideas for 2020 - Part 2 by Sriram Krishnan
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- Software is the lever of the world. Somebody types in code, that code runs, the real-world changes. And the real-world changes not just arbitrarily but in a way that's more efficient, that's more organized, that's more productive, that provides more opportunity to people.
from Marc Andreessen - Making the Future by Patrick O'Shaughnessy
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