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·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I think we're going to see some divergence in the remote-work frenzy. I believe that when your product is still in an open-ended stage, and/or when your engineers are closer to the product side of things, there's still benefit to be had from in-person collaboration. Whiteboarding, ad hoc discussion, etc. Of course the older and bigger a company/product is, the less important this factor becomes, and the more suited they are to having everyone just do their work remotely and check it in. But I would wager that many smaller companies/startups will continue having physical offices even as this trend permeates.
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·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
> Whether I run my Python or C# or Java on ARM or Intel doesn't matter too much to me

I think you make a key point here. A whole lot of code now runs inside one runtime or another, and even outside of that, cross-architeture toolchains have gotten a lot better partly thanks to LLVM.

The instruction set just doesn't matter even to most programmers these days.
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·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
They missed the boat on mobile, though, by focusing too much on Windows
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·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
> to prove something to the C++ guys, who simply don’t care

Pahahahahahaha. There is no group in our industry with a bigger chip on their collective shoulder than "C++ guys".
_bxg1
·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Put differently: this is why we can't have nice things
_bxg1
·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
For the same reason lobbying is harmful. The many should be served, not just those who can pay.
_bxg1
·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
> If maintainers can see who donated, do they prioritize issues / pull requests? (I think that could be a good thing actually).

This actually seems like it would be terrible. Contributions should be evaluated on merit, not on bribes.

The overall concept seemed good at first but you raised some real concerns.
_bxg1
·7 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
This... seems pessimistic and overly dramatized.