Why can't the western titans of SV make something like Telegram?
Why do billion dollar companies like FB, Google and even Discord consistently produce software that is low in performance?
Is it an issue with western (web) development culture where "developer time" is "prioritized" over performance to the point where the developer knows everything about the business processes and product requirements and NOTHING about how computers actually work?
What is it about Russian/Eastern European software culture that created developers capable of producing the smoothest and most well-thought out messaging app?
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I was introduced to Tantacrul via his video on MuseScore. I was thoroughly unimpressed by it and was taken aback by the things he chose to focus on and give priority to.
A lot of the video felt like it was missing the forest for the trees and felt like more like a person trying to say "Did you notice this? I did!" rather than focusing on the actual big picture.
At one point he says that software should try to build on familiarity and frameworks that the user would be used to and find intuitive. Later on, he completely misses how presets are represented and complains that it's unintuitive.
The amount of time he chose to spend on iconography was mind-boggling, and his specific comparison of of iconography to typography was tenuous at best.
Overall I feel that the lack of of FOSS UX devs is what Tantacrul is taking advantage of. His slick videos seem compelling and correct, but are extremely surface level.
It's not necessary that these two approaches can't coexist. In my experience, you HAVE to put in the slog to gain deep knowledge which lets you do these "clever tricks".
Does anyone know any details about the engineering and design teams at Telegram? Encryption qualms aside, the UX and performance of Telegram is so far ahead of WhatsApp, Facebook and Signal that it's quite mindboggling.
Is there any reason why a behemoth like Facebook is unable to achieve similar levels of polish? Is it a cultural issue, bureaucracy or a fundamental difference in the attitudes of developers in Eastern Europe vs those in the United States?
I've found that it's possible to very cleanly separate pessimism and optimism while still experiencing both. When I'm with my family or ideating on a new project, optimism is a much better mindset as it allows the mind to wander, create and relax.
When I am in the depths of a project where I have a lot of things that I need to fail at to understand, a negative mindset is more useful.
Maintaining a positive mindset in the face of a multitude of assured failures is possible, but draining. However, a negative mindset, is more engine-like and muddles along, unsurprised by the failures.
Again, this is a purely personal anecdote and I would not recommend adopting a negative mindset to other people.
Stoicism at it's core is about overcoming destructive emotions.
The negative methodology in this article seems to explicitly renounce the concept of emotions being destructive.
I tend to agree with the second view/philosophy more. Negative emotions like anger and grief are not destructive on their own. However, an individual's response to negative emotions can easily become destructive and foster harmful habits.
Stoicism aims to free one from anger, envy and jealousy, thus averting the negative responses which is an absolutely valid approach. The negative methodology in the article is about experiencing the emotion to its fullest and building resilience, which in turn reduces destructive responses.
Idk who that guy is in the counter-rant portion, but if he can make a 1-hour long video against a language, why doesn't he make his own language instead or write his own game engine in his own language or something like that? I highly doubt he would get sub 1-second compile times, like he claims at 1:03:52.
On a purely personal note, this documentary made me re-evaluate my diet. I'm still not strong enough to be off meat even though that is what I want, but I have successfully abstained from chicken, pig and cow for the past 2 years.
I stopped playing Civ, not because of it's """complexity""", but because it's lack of polish in its complexity. Yes, on the surface when you play it there's a lot, but it's not unique in that regard.
What made me stop is that after understanding the base meta and how the systems work with each other, you realize how woefully unbalanced the game is. The moment two advanced players try to play a game, the starting position determines the result. It has such an absurd snowball effect that the game gets reduced to rock paper scissors.
Complexity is fine, if you can manage it and use it to enhance the player's experience (e.g., Dota) by using that complexity to give dozens of viable routes to play the game in and have a chance of winning. But complexity thrown in just to have these amazing "systems" that totally unbalance the game makes no sense.
https://old.reddit.com/r/unity/comments/16j23ci/i_know_peopl...
The actual people who should be removed is probably the incompetent board of directors who signed on in 2020.