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Put your money where your mouth is. If you think something can be improved, and the cost of that improvement is justified by it's benefits, then you have a vali
by yholio 8y ago
Put your money where your mouth is. If you think something can be improved, and the cost of that improvement is justified by it's benefits, then you have a valid business idea.
More often than not, somebody with far more domain specific insight than yourself thought about the same thing, and rejected it, constrained by some other more important issue you can't yet see.
That's not to say that no improvement is possible, just that you are in a global competition with millions of other smart people and moving things forward is hard and takes dedication, not just hand waving.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago> If you think something can be improved, and the cost of that improvement is justified by it's benefits, then you have a valid business idea. Stop wasting your time bashing Electron on your blog and start working on your idea, it could be the most important thing you have ever done and could make you rich and famous. To be fair, preventing a small group of people from dumping disproportionally large externalities on everyone else, to extract a little extra profit for themselves, isn't a working business model. If it was, we would have solved global warming and ocean pollution by now. Slow software in general, and Electron in particular, is a collective action problem. Solid, fast software gets outcompeted by half-assed bad engineering, because the latter can get to the market first. (Also known as the curse of "worse is better".)
- notatcomputer68 8y agoIrc has been on the market for a long long time, but slack won anyway. Maybe the extra features saved users more time then they lost from running bloated JavaScript.
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- pseudalopex 8y agoIRC is a protocol. Slack is a service. That's another collective action problem.
- alexashka 8y agoAd hominem. How intimately familiar are you with the author's situation to comment on it, and why do you feel like a public forum is an appropriate place to do so?
- yholio 8y agoWhy and how is it an ad-hominem? What exactly is being critiqued about the person of the original author? The point of the argument is to bring economic trade-offs and external contains into the discussion.