You can't compare the effects of the occasional weekend in Tahoe to that of a decade of winters in Toronto.
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Which, in turn, drives the number of bugs and flaws way, way up, which drastically increases the number of developer hours and money spent trying to fix products that are constantly broken. This situation just gets worse over time because those "better" libraries/tools/knowledge-base make adding new bugs much, much faster than fixing them. Evernote is the best example of this I have ever seen.
> So if you are a talented developer you can compete with mid-sized companies right now!
If you're a talented developer, you can compete with what mid-sized companies were doing 10 years ago and large companies were doing 20 years ago. That's more than good enough to make a niche game that pays well, but it's still an order of magnitude or more off from what mid-sized companies make today, both in quality and revenue.
> Large companies will have no option but to scale back and change their HR practices but large companies, like large ships, are harder to turn, hence some of them will definitely go bankrupt in near future.
Unless they're being propped up. Twitter didn't turn a profit until 2018. They spent 12 years burning cash. Most companies would have gone under after their investors pulled their money when they hit year 5 without making a dime.
I'm one of those engineers. The company I currently work at has no problem finding and hiring competent engineers. I also have no problem suggesting something better than what most companies do. And yet, whenever I interview at other companies[0], the most common interview experience I still have are the horrible ones described time and time again here.
The sort of "cross-pollination" you refer to is not widespread.
[0]: A few times a year, just to keep my feet wet.
What did they do? Suggest sacrificing a puppy to moloch to make a feature release go smoothly?
Haha, that reminds me of the old days of Slashdot, immortalized is this early 00's webcomic:
https://www.pyrocam.com/files/images/clanbob.dundundun.dontt...
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
I believe one of the examples for extreme reliability used in the XKCD cartoon included in the article is air travel, which is about as old as computers.
I was told once that the reason air travel is so reliable is because they have mechanical backup systems for when the electronics inevitably fail. Is that true?
How reliable are electronics as a whole?
That's true, but those can only be addressed by the browser makers and the standard committees. It's hard, slow work that will take years to bear any fruit. Frameworks are ways to experiment with the web environment we have available to us today.
That sort of thing doesn't work, even if it's shoved in people's faces. The only viable solution I've ever seen for enforcing community standards is to suspend or ban people who violate them. Otherwise, you'll always have trolls and people who want to see you fail looking to poison the well.
Are we including html and css on that list? I'm not sure webgl is capable of replacing them. Browsers would need to expose some sort of 2d drawing layer.
That depends on the American. There is no unified American culture anymore, which makes generalities like this almost universally false. Case in point: I've lived in America all my life and nobody I know would object to only working a day a week if they could actually live off that little money.