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Those shipping fast and lot write software not to use but to sell. Not for the user but for sales and marketing departments. And this is why software and programmers are not respected, rightfully so. Judged by their products. And software are crap (and then reasoned with vigour why crap is good by those having incentives in it). Much more time than not, the not is the exception nowadays.

Those having too little resources (money) for their monumental ambition also ship fast.

Also it is so f annoying. All those river of notifications about 'hey, brend new version, now!, stop everything and download right away or else!' is a great nuisance. Like if this was the center of the life of the user, to have the newest and prettiest and greatest new feature (or mostly fixup of f*ups) of the software used. Secret for developers: no one cares. They need a tool to do the thing, and that's it. Do it well, do it smooth, that's all that counts. Not the new versions. Please write it well in the first place instead of this endless tinkering and bugging the customer.

Sipping too fast is some sort of premature ejaculation of the programmers' mind.




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