Lately though, software developers have been starting to irritate me. I don't want to blame computers for the issues, since it's the software developer's fault but the computer is the only thing here to blame. Here's what's going on:
1. I have 3 computers for various tasks running Ubuntu, Windows, and Mac OS. In the analysis software I run with Ubuntu, when I use more than 14 GB of RAM (I know, I should switch to VRAM...I'm working on it) I get some matrices with zeros in bad spots and end up with some unstable analyses. I scale back the analysis to 13 GB an allow it to use the hard drive as temporary space and suddenly the analysis works. In Windows....everything bad happens. In Mac OS everything has been slower even though I haven't changed the software except for updates.
2. I used a cloud service for my phone that has decided lately to randomly not sync my contacts or photos. I've lost some great photos lately. It's been laggy at times, and also dropping signal at weird times.
3. I play video games (3 brothers=mandatory video game playing) and a few games have come out the past couple years which have horrible network connectivity, glitches all over the place, and software holes that ruin the game for some players.
Yes,the common factor across all of this is me, but I've been using this type of software since 2011 with no issues whatsoever. Why lately, has all this software come crashing down around me? Am I getting old and there's a rule against old people using software? My guess is that software developers are lazier.
My company has software modules for some of our medical devices. And we have deadlines just as tight as the rest of the software industry with software that I feel is much more complicated aside from the fact that if our software goes bad we kill someone. We don't settle for barely working buggy software, so I hold everyone else to the same standard. I understand alpha and beta releases will have bugs, but fully released and sold software should only have very minor bugs. My theory for this is that the internet is to blame.
Once most software studios realized they could just push updates to fix bugs and people would still buy their stuff they started shortening deadlines. They were okay with the "we'll release and fix it later mentality". What if the medical field, car manufacturers, and house builders did this? They would be screwed. Perhaps I'm jealous that the software people get to make craploads of money with inferior products, but as a consumer I spent my (sometimes) hard-earned money and I want something that freaking works! Why not have some pride in your work, put in the extra hours and release something I can use out of the package?
My company has software modules for some of our medical devices. And we have deadlines just as tight as the rest of the software industry with software that I feel is much more complicated aside from the fact that if our software goes bad we kill someone. We don't settle for barely working buggy software, so I hold everyone else to the same standard. I understand alpha and beta releases will have bugs, but fully released and sold software should only have very minor bugs. My theory for this is that the internet is to blame.
Once most software studios realized they could just push updates to fix bugs and people would still buy their stuff they started shortening deadlines. They were okay with the "we'll release and fix it later mentality". What if the medical field, car manufacturers, and house builders did this? They would be screwed. Perhaps I'm jealous that the software people get to make craploads of money with inferior products, but as a consumer I spent my (sometimes) hard-earned money and I want something that freaking works! Why not have some pride in your work, put in the extra hours and release something I can use out of the package?
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