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Interesting to see the same trends happen with multiple companies recently. e.g. Mint, Twitter, Glassdoor, etc. It must be that once a company gets beyond a c
by spicyusername 3y ago
Interesting to see the same trends happen with multiple companies recently.
e.g. Mint, Twitter, Glassdoor, etc.
It must be that once a company gets beyond a certain size, management turnover reaches a critical point, board / share-holder pressure becomes too influential, or some other X factor, companies become unable to make sensible decisions and destroy themselves.
Reminds me of the famous quote from Anna Karenina.
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
The Microsofts are the exception, not the rule.
- pjc50 3y agoMicrosoft has been through its own deeply dysfunctional periods, it's somehow managed to survive on the Windows monopoly. They're the company that popularized stack ranking.
- MilStdJunkie 3y agoSometimes their OS responsibilities could be a lead albatross, too. I would, very mildly, suggest that the cash money that kept MS afloat as a player all these years was always coming from enterprise, specifically their lock on office formats. Shows you that sometimes it really does help when you pay off the ISO TWG/TAG to make your format the ISO format. That scheme would shake out different today[1], because man, respect for ISO is not what it was in the 1990s. For goddamn good reason. To quote a colleague in my industry, who's far more eloquent than I: "ISO can die of dicks" [1] Which doesn't prevent a whole cottage industry that will promise to make Your Special Sauce an ISO-Approved Special Sauce. Selling shovels to miners, I guess, except replace "miners" with "greed-eyed motherfuckers trying to make imagemaps a data exchange format".
- whatwhaaaaat 3y agoLet me guess, you typed this on an OS that required your Microsoft login to access?