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by intexpress 3y ago
Agree but I think it is more like 8/10 or 9/10 of Googlers who would view Sundar as, to say the least, uninspiring. The problem is that the good internal candidates to succeed Sundar have mostly already left Google, or don’t seem
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by intexpress 3y ago
Starnix is clearly the focus now esp. if you focus on the platform goals and ignore the devex goals. Check out the previous roadmaps where Starnix was only mentioned once or not at all. Aside: the 2024 roadmap also has way more devex goals
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by intexpress 3y ago
Most of the roadmap is about Starnix. Starnix started serious development around late 2022 and is a way for Fuchsia to pretend to be Linux and run Linux programs without recompilation or modification. It is a pivot for the Fuchsia project,
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by intexpress 3y ago
Google leadership has been doing a thorough job at ruining the relationships between leadership and the rank-and-file
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by intexpress 3y ago
Deus Ex wouldn’t exist if Romero hadn’t created Ion Storm and given creative freedom to Warren Spector to make his dream game Daikatana had some interesting design ideas but had problems with technology, esp. with AI programming. It was too
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by intexpress 3y ago
> Meanwhile, id under Carmack kept cranking out hit after hit for years, essentially shrugging off Romero's firing like nothing happened. I don't think that is accurate... The output of id Software after Romero left (post Quake
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by intexpress 3y ago
I was also at the ACMI interview with Warren but I remember it pretty differently. My main takeaway is that he was obsessed with player choice and freedom. FWIW, Deus Ex was made during the unlimited time/unlimited budget years of ION
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by intexpress 3y ago
It could be that what you lacked was financial compensation. Sometimes people will put up with crazy stress levels if their compensation is high.