That has been going since forever. McCarthy is just one blatant example, it happened in the 20s, and 30s, and 40s 50s and 60s and 70s and all the way to today.

Everyone I know chose based on quality of education (for which syllabus is an important signal) and cost. This is various STEM-related fields.

The "exclusivity" and "networking considerations" stop mattering if you not looking into Ivy League.. and most people don't go there.

>This is the mark of a dictator

Usually the mark of a dictator is being the top millitary leader and taking over a country yourself.

>The problem with this reasoning is it requires assuming that companies do things for no reason

Experience shows that that's the case at least 50% of the time

From the suggestions it looks like sarcasm, but you never can tell these days

>Customers simply don't care. I don't recall a single complain about RAM or disk usage of my Electron-based app to be reported in the past 10 years.

I see complains about RAM and slugginess against Slack and countless others Electron apps every fucking day, same as with Adobe forcing web rendered UI parts in Photoshop, and other such cases. Forums are full of them, colleagues always complain about it.

Of course they complain about them, but those are the users, not the purchasers.

How are Adobe and Slack/Salesforce doing?

Are they hurting for customers?

the people that USE the software the most are not the people BUYING the software. it’s why all enterprise software has trash UX.

do you think i as a software engineer like using Jira? Outlook? etc? Heck even the trendy stuff is broken. Anthropic took took 6 months to fix a flickering claude code. -_-

Yes that was my point.

Not relevant point though. I was answering to this "I don't recall a single complain about RAM or disk usage of my Electron-based app to be reported in the past 10 years", I wasn't arguing that such apps don't make money.

McDonald’s isn’t hurting for customers either. Doesn’t mean their food is anything a chef ought to aspire to.

I'm loving it

McDonald's is renown for speed of service, a bit ironic to compare that to slow apps

Maybe 40 years ago.

Neither it means that McDonald's should aspire to be a chef

Sure, aspiring to mediocrity at a cost to others is a choice.

Desktop GUI is a lost art. Gen X were the last people to master it.

I am a gen X, this hurts, but it might be true :(

>You are who, what and where you are by virtue of historical accident. The serfs of the Middle Ages sure as shit didn’t want that economy either

At least many of them fought hard to keep what they liked - plenty of peasant revolts and coming at feudal lords when they overdid it...

Early industrial workers didn't like their economy and conditions either, fought hard, organized, and got many changes to labour laws and conditions.

Us?