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Thing is businesses don't work like side-projects do. Qualcomm is more or less a research company, the main cost of their business is paying engineers to build
by biosboiii 2y ago
Thing is businesses don't work like side-projects do.
Qualcomm is more or less a research company, the main cost of their business is paying engineers to build their modems/SoCs/processors/whatever.
They have been working with ARM for the last, I dont know, 20 years? Even if they manage to switch to RISC-V, and each employee has negative performance impact of like 15% for 2-3 years this ends up in billions of dollars, because you have to hire more people or lose speed.
If corporate would force me to work with idk Golang instead of TypeScript I could certainly manage to do so, but I would be slower for a while, and if you extrapolate that on an entire company this is big $$.
- nottorp 2y ago> because you have to hire more people or lose speed Yes and 9 women can make a baby in 1 month :)
- asgeir 2y agoIn Norse mythology, Heimdallr was born of nine sisters. I'm not sure that it took any less time than usual, but I enjoy the story all the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Mothers_of_Heimdallr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Mothers_of_Heimdallr
- type0 2y agoand Norse mythology has 9 world dimensions, so maybe it worked for them
- vollbrecht 2y agoIt's called pipelining, and the concept works well in all modern processors. Can also work with people, you only have a initial setup delay :)
- tsunamifury 2y agoNo but 9 women can have 9 babies in 9 months. Which is a 9x output. Production and development requires multiple parties. This mythical man month stuff is often poorly applied. Many parts of research and development need to be done in parallel.
- nottorp 2y agoIf you make screws, sure :)
- dzaima 2y agoJust take a guess at how the baby will be like and get everyone to pretend it already exists for the 8 months (and throw away the experience if mispredicted afterwards) :)
- nasretdinov 2y ago> If corporate would force me to work with idk Golang instead of TypeScript I think the most evil thing to do would be to switch places: TS for backend, Go for frontend. It can certainly work though!
- jkaplowitz 2y agoBuilding a website that way would yield quite a popular Show HN post!
- worewood 2y agoTS running under Node.js for the backend, I'd dare say, looks pretty standard. But I like to imagine the Web frontend made in Go, compiled to WASM. Would be a fun project, for sure.
- ahoka 2y agoTry Java 1.8.