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It's not that difficult, it's just incentivized in our not-so-free market. Big companies can afford lawyers and lobbyists and they get all the best tax breaks and subsidies. Small companies, not so much.

each one of them brings variations to the base product flavor but no budget to implement them

Yep, because the base product is designed for the large clients.

It's all incentives to target big companies. Why do you need permissions and user account management in your software? Because you're dealing with 20+ people and you may not know everyone in your company and if they can be trusted. Why do you have a base product that requires at least 10,000 database items in it to be useful? Because the big companies have that many items and they've got a monopoly or oligopoly on the market.

I once proposed to have a sort of web excel with security controls and a way to let authenticated guests to work on a subset of cells as a way to move small businness online leaving control to them of their process implementation but couldn't find a sponsor.

This is actually what should and would happen in a free market. The majority of companies are not very large; most of them have a bit of extra cash to invest in a tool like that. There is a definite market for it. But why isn't that market pursued? All of the above incentives mentioned above.

The reason every company I've seen upgrade their tech is because they have money which buys them time to do so. That's basically it.

and there's a forum devpressed.com I think is the address, the corporate firewall won't let me go to it for some reason though.

> "At Apple in 2007, organizationally it was the wild west," Burrough said. "I was hired under a particular manager, but for the first two years worked on projects that had virtually nothing to do with that manager's core responsibility. That's because the organization wasn't the priority, the projects were the priority. It was the exact opposite of 'not my job.' It was 'I'm here to solve whatever problems I can, irrespective of my role, my title, or to whom I report.' It was wild. But it was also very rewarding, because everything you did had maximal impact on the product." > > But today, the "dynamic has clearly and distinctly changed," and Apple is much closer to his job at Palm, said Burrough, who most recently founded a 3D printing company called Bilt It. > > "Working at Palm, the teams were highly organizational, [hierarchical] and responsibilities were siloed," Burrough said. "There was a clear sense that each person had a clear responsibility, and rarely deviated from it. When you went to someone for help solving a problem 'not my job' was a common response."

Is this something for startups to be worried about, introducing hierarchy and silo'ing and a culture of "not my job" especially as they grow rapidly?

And yes, they are just coders. Coders are bad at negotiating, they're bad at politics, they're missing out on earning ALL of their labor.

In terms of consulting, credit/loans are harder to get for smaller businesses and most software ends up being targeted toward large businesses, and so do most consultants.

It's harder to be a small business than to be a large business; therefore it's hard to pay more and since you're already as efficient as possible it's harder to get those rates up.

(Also there was wage suppression by Google and Apple and other big companies for around 5 years, that's a HUGE damper on the maximum salary which also translates into a damper on consulting rates.)

the monopoly on credit has to end.

I wonder if the performance has improved.

Sharing one beefy connection with 10-20 people in a few nearby houses would be a good first step because it's under the radar of the big telecomm companies and you can't be legally barred from sharing your connection?

After taking a class and reading up on project management and trying to get more organized about my own projects, it's basically that. People have been able to orchestrate large projects with nothing more than pencil and paper and then typewriter. The best PMs don't need to force a tool choice.

Those are all valuable features that give it an edge over Blogger and Wordpress and other platforms.

You can also see the difference in quality of comments/discussion on wordpress vs medium. On medium, people are highlighting and sharing and discussing. On wordpress, they aren't doing that often (at least not on my blogs).

At some point you're going to need more than one person to understand the code and they either go through that learning process months down the road or right now when they can be most useful in shaping that code.

It's not simple mathematics.

It's definitely a game-changer and sad to see most orgs don't do a post-mortem or incident model report at all.

also, this only works in Chrome and on mobile, which is really messed up considering that Firefox is also a bleeding edge browser.

This is precisely why it makes sense to keep database data encrypted even to admins and why it makes sense for ride-sharing companies to be co-operatives or non-profits.

Profit-seeking companies engage in bad behaviours all the time.