I think a major part of the frustration is more the _assumptions_ around the work complexity. Like decision-makers more easily make invalid assumptions regarding the complexity of the software portion. A good PM will listen to the SWEs when forming these assumptions and good SWEs must be able to communicate about them.
This could be bias talking, though. Is it common for sales or support teams to be given milestones that are off by 50%?
Treat them as resources for remembering/exploring code libraries and documentation. For example, I needed to import some JSON files as structs into Unreal Engine. Gemini helped me to quickly identify the classes UE has for working with JSON.
I've been in a similar position of having to learn solo for 10+ years and lesson #2 above has been FAR more important than #1 in my experience. Clients and bosses care much more about communication, dependability, etc. than whether a product has been coded elegantly via best practices.
Screens typically have much more horizontal space but ideal page text width has a limit so the sides end up as unused space. Also tab nesting can be very useful for organization.
"This is the city where it can take 87 permits, 1,000 days of meetings and $500,000 in fees to build residential housing projects. This is the city — the only one in the state — that allows housing permits to be appealed even after projects are entitled. This is the city where it costs an estimated $100,000 to build one tiny home for the homeless — up to 10 times more than in other Bay Area cities — and almost $1.2 million to build a single unit of affordable housing. This is the city that at one point celebrated plans to build a single public toilet for $1.7 million."
"1,000 days of meetings" sounds like the ultimate office horror movie.
The malware didn't affect their "business" Thinkpads. They really shot themselves in the foot by diluting the Thinkpad name and slapping it on $300 consumer laptops.
I highly recommend this course "3D Graphics Programming from Scratch"[0] to dive into software rendering. It uses the SDL and basically starts from first principles.
No. The Netflix mail business was very significantly profitable and the streaming business was losing a ton of money for years. The mail business carried, paid for, the streaming business.
That's because of the the entirely different business model of the disc rental business (first sale doctrine) vs streaming licensing business (you're screwed, the content owners will squeeze you to the wall). The horrible licensing costs of the streaming business is what prompted Netflix to push into production (basically direct those fees equivalent into assets they'd own outright instead of paying all their revenue back out to licensing fees forever).
The horrible streaming licensing cost problem is why Spotify struggles to earn a decent profit despite how much they've grown and having a zillion subscribers. You get no benefit of scale on your margin, because the content owners always squeeze you as you grow.
Spotify is up to $8.6b in revenue and still losing money. Their business has no margin at all, and that's essentially all due to the music licensing costs. That's why they're desperate to push into anything else, other lines of business, where they can not have to pay all their revenue out in licensing fees.
You could also argue that Google tried to reinvent Skype, Slack, Discord, and a million other chat apps, and they cannibalized their own offerings because they were feckless and mercurial.
Yeah, and also cuz they kinda sucked. 1st-gen iMessage, or even old-school Trillian, was loads better than Google's graveyard of shitty chat products.
Google had no overarching chat strategy, just threw gobs of money and different teams at reinventing different spokes of the wheels, never thinking about the cart as a whole.
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Google Talk evolved into Hangouts which then evolved into Chat. It's all one continuous line with a terrible marketing strategy. From what I can tell, Meet seems to be just a confusing way to access Hangouts video chats.
I can still see all of my Talk/Hangouts/Chat history going back years. Removing XMPP sucks, and I was annoyed by that too, but the chat history is still there.
This could be bias talking, though. Is it common for sales or support teams to be given milestones that are off by 50%?