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Quality needs appreciation and an eye for it. It's abstract yet infinitely enhancing. I'll happily pay more for higher quality software and higher quality goods
by bayindirh 3y ago
Quality needs appreciation and an eye for it. It's abstract yet infinitely enhancing. I'll happily pay more for higher quality software and higher quality goods. At the end, I have my peace of mind, things work the way they should, in a predictable manner. This also means that quality is boring (and boring is good).
As you said quality is expensive, and is hard. Because needs iteration, blood, sweat and tears. And masses of engineers (of any kind) is in this for money, not for their passions. To be able to build quality $SOMETHING, you need to go slow, pour yourself in the thing you're building. You need to think like a craftsman, and be one with the thing you're building.
Companies want "MVP in 48 hours, product in 4 months, exit in 12 months". So, people glue what they can find together to build, without any regard for quality (or anything really).
This kind of environment is not conductive to quality, but only littering.
- nothercastle 3y agoHigh quality is orthogonal to high feature count. I think in most industries you need to balance it at least somewhat to keep up with the feature leader
- bayindirh 3y agoBBEdit, Sublime Text, OmniGraffle, Pixelmator, Darktable, Forklift (file manager), KDE (as a whole), yt-dlp, curl, wget, freemind, mindnode (and I can add many more) are strong counter examples to this. They are high quality, packed with tons of features and are leaders or give leaders a decent run for their money. The most important thing is all of them go slow. Without rushing. They don’t race. They release when they are done. And it shows. Ah, also there’s CameraBag, which spent their last year optimizing first, adding more features second.
- nothercastle 3y agoThe tools you listed don’t have to make a profit they are open source and can go slow.
- bayindirh 3y agoI carefully selected the set. Half of them are closed source. A couple of them is pretty pricey.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago> BBEdit, Sublime Text, OmniGraffle, Pixelmator... ForkLift Those are all for-profit. I have paid for BBEdit for over 30 years. Also, OmniGraffle is a standard tool, and I have been paying for that, since 1.0. Same with ForkLift. I don't think that any of these are actually open-source.
- graemep 3y agoAs far as I can see all are either open source or developed by small companies. The problem is the incentives large public companies have are to do well short term, keep investors happy and get the management their bonuses this year, or maybe next.
- edflsafoiewq 3y agoBoth take time, so within a given time limit, the more you allocate to one, the less to the other.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoMany auto shops have a sign up in their Service Department: • Good • Cheap • Fast Pick Two