alt Hacker NewsI wish Google would be biased a little more towards quality and performance. Their user-facing products tend to be full of jank, although Gmail is quite good to be fair.
In general I think the "ship fast and break things" mentality assumes a false dilemma, as if the alternative to shipping broken software is to not ship at all. If thats the mentality no wonder software sucks today. I'd rather teams shipped working, correct, and performant software even if it meant delaying additional features or shipping a constrained version of their vision. The minimalism of the software would probably end up being a net benefit instead of stuffing it full of half baked features anyways.
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I wish people who ship crappy software didn't ship it and would let someone else ship something better instead.
It really sucks when the first mover / incumbent is some crappy half assed solution.
But unfortunately we live in a world where quality is largely irrelevant and other USPs are more important. For example these little weekend projects that become successful despite their distinct lack of quality
Linux kernel - free Unix.
JavaScript - scripting in browser
Python - sane "perl"
Today on GitHub alone you can probably find 100 more featured and higher quality projects than any of these were when they launched but nobody cares.
When you're not shipping, you're not learning from users. As a result, it's easy to build working, correct, performant code which doesn't fit what anyone actually needs.