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Ya, I think this is a great insight. In today's world, code is not released as a versioned artifact sold on a disc or downloaded. The idea of "shipping" is fuzz
by didibus 2y ago
Ya, I think this is a great insight. In today's world, code is not released as a versioned artifact sold on a disc or downloaded. The idea of "shipping" is fuzzy. You might be 100% in production with some change and it could still leave edge case, deficiencies, etc. You can decide to address them now or later. And it's all just perception. You can say it's good enough, we shipped, let's forget about this whole thing and move to another. Or you can keep ironing out the quirks.
I've "shipped" things in the past that were turned on to less than 1% of the time, and we left it at that, and moved on to other things. It was considered "shipped". Everyone was worried to increase it to beyond 1%, so we all patted ourselves in the back for the great launch and went to work on other things.
- bigiain 2y agoThere was always something intensely satisfying about walking into some retail store and seeing boxes on the shelf containing CDs with software I'd written. (On the flip side, there was that one time we had to destroy 5,000 CDs because they had a Quicktime Autostart virus on them...)
- OnlyMortal 2y agoHeh. I can relate to seeing your product on a shelf. I recall seeing IBM ViaVoice X on shelves a Circuit City. It was rather an ego trip.
- Aeolun 2y agoSometimes it’s odd to realize there’s people that can say this while simultaneously not being my grandfather. There’s a whole period of computer history I skipped.
- bigiain 2y agoFWIW, I'm 57 soon. Old enough that I could totally be some random HN poster's grandfather...
- levysoft 2y agoI bought it back in 1998 and started using it right away... it truly felt like the future!
- OnlyMortal 2y ago:-) I worked in the first OSX version. I did the AppKit UI being one of the few on the planet who had a NeXT background. It came with a UK language model as the US model didn’t recognise my accent.