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Have you heard of the "Burning platform" memo?
by scns 6y ago
Have you heard of the "Burning platform" memo?
- mcraiha 6y agoHave you read "Paranoidi optimisti" by Risto Siilasmaa? All the big problems software wise were cause by Symbian. "Unfortunately, this was only the tip of the iceberg. Siilasmaa later learned that the overall build time of Symbian was two weeks." https://www.flashover.blog/posts/technical-debt/ https://www.flashover.blog/posts/technical-debt/
- im3w1l 6y agoHoly shit, how did that happen? Edit: it seems the compilation time was 2 days in that article, I wonder what the rest was.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoSymbian definitely had to go. But that's why Nokia had Meego-Harmattan. It's as if Apple announced they were going to stop developing their own software, right after replacing classic Mac OS with OS X. And, instead of adopting Windows for future Macs, Apple was going all-in on Solaris. And, Steve Jobs had just stepped down as interim CEO, and his replacement just happened to be a former Sun Microsystems executive. And, Apple's investors were apparently okay with this.
- ChuckNorris89 6y agoHow the fuck can a piece of software reach a two day compilation time without raising alarm bells? Sounds like a disfunctional organization where the only goal is just to ship features continuously.
- raverbashing 6y agoThe software practices of hardware companies in the 90s/00s was precarious and tools like ClearCase createad a generation of idiots (or vice-versa and the ones that thought 2 days build times were ok were the last to leave their jobs - usually forced)
- pjmlp 6y agoYep, and being in Espoo the week it was published, I can tell no one was that happy with it, specially after the push to modernize Symbian with Qt.
- mnd999 6y agoIt was largely BS to justify the pivot to Windows phone. Jolla demonstrated that the problems with Meego could be solved with far fewer resources than Nokia put into their pointless Windows phone migration.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoI just said above that I loved Meego Manhattan, but I never liked Jolla's UI. One example of something I believe they just got completely wrong is that swiping away an app causes it to fade out, instead of actually move alongside your finger. This makes multi-tasking somewhat easier, since you can quickly peak at what's behind an app, but it isn't connected to the gesture.
- mnd999 6y agoThe UX was, well, Marmite at best but they solved the real issues - porting the OS to Qualcomm SOC (instead of the discontinued TI OMAP) and adding 4g support.