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That's what's wonderful about Doom. The simplicity of what it does belies the effort put into achieving that on limited hardware. When it come out it was mind
by Lio 4y ago
That's what's wonderful about Doom. The simplicity of what it does belies the effort put into achieving that on limited hardware.
When it come out it was mind blowing and I think it's a testament to what can be done when people actually care about the product.
I suspect the issue with software for consumer goods in general is a stake holder/project management one and not software engineering.
If the stake holder cares more about a tick list of features than how well the features work there's not much the engineer can do. In my experience stake holders are often much more interested in their burn down graphs and Gantt charts than in getting a really polished core which could later scale quickly with just config.
You need a product owner with real vision and understanding of what good looks like. It's almost a cliche now to reference Steve Jobs but he really did get that a few really excellent features are better than a laundry list of stuff that sucks.
- john_the_writer 4y agoYep.. and oddly the stake holder who want more features are the customer. I want a radio, a cd player and AC. I don't even use the Bluetooth, because I don't talk on the phone when I drive. The features on these new cars do IMHO too much.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoI adapted the very old FM/AM, cassette, and external CD changer in my very old Range Rover to have Bluetooth because it doesn't have an aux input and my phone doesn't have a headphone jack anyway, and I want to listen to music or audiobooks off it when I'm driving. I looked into reversing the protocol between the CD jukebox and the stereo, and using an Arduino to inject the appropriate commands - maybe even get the "next" and "back" track buttons working too - but in the end I just fitted a cheapy bare-PCB bluetooth deelie into the cassette deck and wiring it to permanently think it has a tape in. It works pretty well, and it looks pretty standard. My phone sticks to the flat 1990s dashboard (remember when cars didn't have to have swoopy curves everywhere?) with a couple of bits of double-sided sticky Velcro, and plugs into a USB-C socket fitted where the lighter socket used to be. Good old farm truck technology.
- nyanpasu64 4y agoI'm personally a fan of mushroom hooks (3M Dual Lock) besides the high price, because it's less spiky than Velcro and has more lateral rigidity (though unfortunately you need 3 pieces on each side in a triangle for a robust stable mount free of tilting wobbling). Though I actually wouldn't recommend it for mounting a phone; I added a piece to my phone case, but took it off because it kept catching onto my hand and surfaces, and ended up with more entangled dust than soft Velcro.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoI actually stuck the velcro to a cheapy Otterbox rubber sleeve knockoff rather than the phone, which has some weird sticky-thing-repelling coating that the Velcro wouldn't stick to.