1,059 karma · joined October 9, 2011
I saw solutions that started like this and very quickly became an unmanageable mess. I guess it’s some sort of pattern where it’s hard to see this fine line between “it works so don’t need to reengineer it” and realising a huge technical debt incurred. It requires experienced person to make a decision to drop the former and start with some more sane solution.
Downsides: - very bad dictionary, writing amaras horrible (comparing to Nokia for example) - software was also a bit clunky - I tried to write some app for it but hit the wall of not having some expensive license
* creating extra administrative burden around daily things, and trying to commit devs to that
* favour management roles over engineer roles
* ...thus effectively limit technical career: higher positions are non-technical and managerial only
* create two "islands": management and technical, with limited interactions
* treat engineers as easily replaceable parts, keep one or two experienced ones (for extinguishing fires) and forget the rest.
Suddenly the russian military help became quite expensive. Paid in gold of course. All of it.
- classify on all characters (not only one word)
- add some more fonts, at least those most popular ones. I tried with a few very popular (i'd say classic) fonts, but none was found
I like R quite much, but this is a sign of a bad language design.