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by nickpsecurity 3536 days ago
I was talking complexity vs size. Gabriel's Worse is Better already tells you that growth has more to do with network effects and marketing than technical correctness. QNX lacked them for desktop or server use but did well in embedded. Almost had a mobile shot but Blackberry blew it totally with marketing plan.

EDIT: Read Godot. That was hilarious but I kept seeing too much reality in it.
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qwertyuiop924 3536 days ago
Of course. My post was less about how QNX's lack of popularity subverts your point (it doesn't), and more about setting up that punchline.

There's quite a bit of reality in the article, but not quite enough to depress me. Maybe you've seen more of this sort of thing than I have.

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nickpsecurity 3536 days ago
Ahh gotcha. Far as other thing, have you seen the Web and enterprise BS getting lots of adoption since big names tried them out? And the drift to incomprehensible frameworks with huge dependencies that one can barely maintain with similar security problems and a tiny fraction of efficiency of C++? And now more of them as SaaS? Just thinking there's lots of that bullshit in the article going on in real life. It's that or legacy SAP, Oracle, COBOL, MFC BS. Competing BS exists but sanity gets rarer and rarer.
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digi_owl 3535 days ago
Outsourcing was done with great care by a few big name corporations. And after their apparent success every two bit public traded company went on a "me too!" outsourcing rush to try to goose their share value.
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nickpsecurity 3535 days ago
I'm not aware of its early history. Which were the ones that pulled it off first?
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qwertyuiop924 3536 days ago
Oooh. That. I get a miss on a lot of it, because I'm not in industry, and I avoid Java (the natural focal point of incomprehensible frameworks), and frameworks in general.

On a daily basis, the worst I have to deal with is SystemD, which is creatively incompotent and best, and downright insane at worst. But it's got a pretty face, and the draw of easy-to-understand unit files (over, say, SVinit), so people don't realize the depths of the madness that lies beneath.

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digi_owl 3535 days ago
> Gabriel's Worse is Better already tells you that growth has more to do with network effects and marketing than technical correctness.

Something that can readily be observed in action with systemd.

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qwertyuiop924 3535 days ago
...Exactly. It sure as heck didn't get into distros on technical merit, because it has none.
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