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It's a great read, but also deeply frustrating. I can feel in my bones what they're aiming for — I loved Agenda, and the idea of Notes is a brilliant one too, b
by bonaldi 7y ago
It's a great read, but also deeply frustrating. I can feel in my bones what they're aiming for — I loved Agenda, and the idea of Notes is a brilliant one too, but it seems so frustratingly hard to actually deliver a great product that delivers on it.
(It's also very easy to criticise Chandler's approach with hindsight, but the book does a good job of making you appreciate just how much was up in the air at that point with approaches to building networked applications: see for example the amount of effort they poured into making it work locally because the idea of constantly having to chat back to a central server was anathema to them)
- ex3xu 7y agoI share your frustration, and I have nothing but admiration for Mitch Kapor -- he would go on to be one of the founders of the EFF after all. For me, what causes me the most pain in hindsight is how easily we could have ended up in a world where Lotus, with its ethically conscious leadership, could have ended up with the degree of influence on the digital landscape that Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook would eventually have over the digital world. Just a few million better spent dollars and a few more groundbreaking products shipped, and who knows...